Blackburn owners Venky's have insisted that they will not be selling the club, despite fans continuing to protest against the Indian poultry giants and Steve Kean. 

Rovers were relegated to the Championship after their loss to Wigan on Monday night, and controversy has surrounded the club since, with deputy chief executive Paul Hunt veing sacked after a letter was leaked from him to the board written in December calling for change.

But Venky's insist that Kean, and everyone else at the club, are not to blame for Blackburn's current plight, and that Hunt was sacked purely for financial reasons.

"It is not sacking because of that," co-owner Venkatesh Rao told Times of India when asked if Hunt's sacking was to do with the leaked letter.

"Some staff have to go to bring the budget down, it is nothing to do with it.