Blackburn Rovers ready to seal fresh contract agreement with 29-year-old | OneFootball

Blackburn Rovers are ready to agree a new deal with experienced defender Dominic Hyam, who has one year left to run on his contract at Ewood Park.

Blackburn Rovers are ready to agree a new contract with experienced defender Dominic Hyam.

Blackburn only narrowly missed out on a place in the Championship play-offs at the end of the 2024-25 season, and they're looking to improve on that, next time around.

But building a strong squad for the new season is as much about holding on to the players that you want to keep as it is about bringing in new ones.

Hyam has been a central component of the Blackburn defence for three years, and with just a year left to run on his contract, the Lancashire outfit are now set to try and keep him around for the foreseeable future.

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Journalist Alan Nixon has reported that Blackburn are ready to agree a new contract with Hyam this summer.

It has been claimed that the 29-year-old is "happy to commit" to an extension with Rovers, who he signed for from Coventry City in 2022, and in April 2025 a clause was triggered to further his current Rovers deal by an extra year.

Hyam is not the only player in Valerien Ismael's squad that has just a year remaining on his contract, and others are proving trickier to tie down.

Midfield duo Lewis Travis and Sondre Tronstad both have expiring deals next summer and appear no closer to renewing terms, whilst right-back Callum Brittain is angling for a move to Middlesbrough despite a fresh contract being on the table for some time, with Ismael resigned to losing Rovers' number two.

Ismael will hope for better luck when it comes to Hyam though, as he appeared in all 46 Championship matches for Rovers last season, evidently being a key figure in their push for the play-offs.

Dom Hyam's experience is important to Blackburn Rovers - a new contract is needed ASAP

The level of experience that Dominic Hyam has in the Championship would be important to any club playing at this level, and at 29 years old he hits the sweet spot of having years of playing at this level behind him, while not being at an age at which signing a new contract brings an inherent level of risk to the club.

Hyam started his career at Reading, but was unable to break through into the first team there and spent his four years with the club on loan elsewhere, before moving on to Coventry in 2017.

After five years with Coventry, he signed for Blackburn Rovers for an undisclosed fee, with the club's then-Director of Football Gregg Broughton praising his experience levels at the time of signing him.

Getting Hyam tied down to a new contract will remove a degree of uncertainty from over both the player and the club, and not just for the remainder of this summer's transfer window, but also for next season as well.

The player will be settled because he has the security of that new contract, while the club can worry less about his head being turned by new suitors, secure in the knowledge that anybody else wanting his services would have to pay a fee to do so.