EX-Boro manager Tony Mowbray, who is currently in charge of fellow Championship play-off chasers Blackburn Rovers, has admitted he is expecting to leave the club at the end of the season.

Mowbray, who was in charge of Boro from 2010-2013 is the leagues longest serving manager with Rovers having taken over in 2017. But with his contract coming to it’s conclusion at the end of the season, Mowbray revealed that there has been no conversations with the club’s hierarchy regarding an extension.

Rovers sit just a point behind Boro in the table and sit three points outside the top six heading into their game against Bournemouth but with the end of the season fast approaching, no decision has been made on his future.

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“The club have to decide what they want to do at this moment. I don’t need to instigate anything. I’m just clear in my own mind what’s happening” said Mowbray when quizzed about his future at Ewood Park.

“I don’t know what goes on in the background at football clubs with the men in suits. They get on with their jobs. There will be a reason that I don’t know. As I’ve said in the past, those are the people you should ask, not me.

When quizzed about why there had been no conversations at all about an extension, Mowbray continued: “I can’t give you an answer, what I do know is that I don’t go knocking on their doors and say ‘are we going to talk about a contract?’ All I can do is say to you that there has been no conversation, there has been no approaches, there’s been no discussions and we’re a week away from the end of the season.

“What do you want me to think? I don’t feel that I am being disloyal here by saying anything other than it looks like I’m leaving. Because there’s been no contract discussions and I am out of contract very soon.”

Mowbray’s family still live on Teesside as he continues his job in Lancashire as he has done for the last five years but the 58-year-old has gone on record to say that his work-life balance needs looking at, which could also be considered a hint to him heading out the exit door.

Mowbray continued: “I’m pretty relaxed why because I’ve got a life balance to get on with. My youngest son was seven when I joined this club and he’s going to be a teenager next week. I’ve hardly seen him. I’ve seen him one day, sometime two days, a week for the last five years.

“He’s a little boy, he needs his dad to watch him play on a Sunday which I try to do. I like to take him to school, I like to take my family out to dinner on an evening if I’m home. That’s life balance.”

Rovers host promotion chasing Bournemouth on Saturday followed by a season ending trip to Birmingham City.