Steve Kean has set Blackburn Rovers a target of finishing in the top 10 this season but said his transfer budget may have diminished due to a restructuring of the club's debt.

Venky's, the Blackburn owners who inherited £15m of debt on takeover last year, had claimed Kean had a fixed sum plus money raised through player sales to strengthen a squad that avoided relegation only on the final day of last season. Rovers have since agreed sales totalling £22.5m for Phil Jones and Nikola Kalinic, who has joined the Ukrainian side Dnipro for £6m, and purchases that could rise to £5.8m for David Goodwillie from Dundee United plus Radosav Petrovic of Partisan Belgrade.

Rovers' manager hopes to make "two, maybe three" further signings before the transfer window closes but, with Venky's under pressure to reduce the club's overdraft, he admits the available budget is unknown