Former Celtic manager, the current Blackburn Rovers boss Tony Mowbray has broken silence on the continuing speculation linking his goalkeeper Balazs Toth with a move to Paradise…
And Mowbray admitted that he’s uncertain about the Hungarian international’s future at Ewood Park, after only learning about interest from Celtic late on Thursday night via agents.
“I don’t know is the answer,” he admitted. “You probably know how the layers in our football club work, and football coaches, football managers, don’t need to know if one of your players is going to get sold.
“I don’t know. I’ve had agents phoning me up at quarter to eleven last night, telling me that you need a goalie, and I’m going, why do I need a goalie? They said, because your goalie’s getting sold.
“It’s a little bit frustrating that I’m getting told at quarter to eleven, the night before a game, that my goalie’s getting sold. I laughed it off, but let’s wait and see.”
Mowbray has insisted that the club should cash in if they receive a suitable offer for 28 year old Toth, who has one year remaining on his contract, and stated that there’s plenty of others out there to replace him with.
“If people aren’t going to sign contracts, there’s a million footballers out there, you have to cash in,” he said. “I don’t think it’s right that you invest in footballers, you give them contracts, and then for whatever reason, they go.
“That’s no criticism of Toth, if he doesn’t want to sign a new contract. In my opinion, he’s been offered a pretty substantial contract. He doesn’t want to sign it, he wants to move on, you have to cash in.
“I’m not here to criticise the football club, if they get the right deal for him, in his last year, we have to go and get some. There’s a million footballers out there; we’ll go and find another goalkeeper.
“We’ve got Aynsley of course, who’s very capable. I’ve said to them every day, I want them all to enjoy their football career; it’s very short. Football will give you some of the best moments of your life, apart from the day you get married to your beautiful wife, or you have your children.
“Scoring goals, celebrating, loving it with the fans after you win matches, that’s what life’s about. If the goalie wants to go and do it somewhere else, and win cups and trophies and play in the Champions League, then who am I to tell him he shouldn’t do that? Good luck to him.”
Both Tony Mowbray and Hoth were left disappointed last night after Blackburn drew 2-2 with Wolves after conceding a stoppage time penalty kick, denying them all three points in the opening game of the English Championship campaign.
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