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Balazs Toth to Celtic transfer escalates as Blackburn boss Tony Mowbray reveals 'sold' message from agent The Hungary international is on the Parkhead agenda and has refused a new deal at Ewood Park Blackburn Rovers boss Tony Mowbray has revealed agents told him goalkeeper Balazs Toth is to be sold amid interest from Celtic. Record Sport understands the Hoops are in the hunt for the £4m-rated star as they look to provide competition for Viljami Sinisalo. The Glasgow giants are ramping up their business ahead of the crucial Champions League playoff against LASK coming up next week - with big money deals for Mika Baur and Haissem Hassan completed earlier this week. The 27-year-old played 90 minutes of the Championship opener against Wolves on Friday night - but is likely to be sold after rejecting a new contract. His deal will expire at the end of the campaign, and after the 2-2 draw Mowbray was asked about interest from Celtic in the shot-stopper. The former Parkhead and Hibs boss told the Lancashire Telegraph: "I don't know is the answer. "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 concedes that his advice to the club would be to sell the first-choice goalkeeper before the end of the window. He added: "If people aren't going to sign contracts, there's a million footballers out there, you have to cash in. "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. "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." Get more Daily Record exclusives by signing up for free to Google’s preferred sources . Click HERE. Tune in to Hotline Live every Sunday to Thursday and have your say on the biggest issues in Scottish football and listen to Record Sport's newest podcast, Game On, every Friday for your sporting fix, all in bitesize chunks.