Blackburn Rovers manager Steve Kean said on Tuesday the club has the budget to buy new players and will add to the squad before the new season starts.

“We have got three or four active bids out there – we are waiting for confirmation that the bids have been accepted,” Kean said.

“Two or three are quite far down the line. So we are confident that we’ll get bodies in.”

He downplayed the suggestion that the club’s owners, Indian poultry company Venky’s, lack the financial resources to support Blackburn in the transfer market.

“We don’t have to sell before we buy,” Kean added. “We are trying to keep the majority of the players together.

“We have a fixed budget, but it’s a budget that is competitive and that will bring in good-quality players.”

The club are looking to add a striker, a midfield player and a central defender to their ranks.

England Under-21 defender Phil Jones is the club’s only major piece of transfer news this summer, moving to Manchester United for a fee that Kean has said could reach £20 million ($32m) with performance bonuses.

“That was a difficult thing because he had only played a few games for us,” said Kean, who added that it is hard to retain young players like Jones when they are offered the chance to play in the Champion’s League.