A reflective Sean Dyche has spoken about the difficulties of operating in a transfer market that is seemingly awash with inexhaustive amounts of money.
Burnley boss Sean Dyche has commented on the transfer travails he is currently experiencing, “People think it’s changed from two years ago. It’s still a difficult market.
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Sean added, “The chairman and the board have told me there are certain parameters and guidelines, and I have told them the targets we want and it’s down to them now.
“It’s a tough market. We have moved forward and other clubs have moved forward. No-one gives players away.
“It’s very difficult. What’s today’s news? ‘£105m now is it for Pogba?’ It’s an interesting journey for Burnley.
“It’s moved on no end in the last couple of years, because the financial side of the television shifts forward and that shifts everyone’s thinking forward.
“Certain deals break the market, and once they break the market, everyone ups the ante on their own players.
“If you are a selling club at the moment, you are probably in good shape. But we are a hopeful buying club, and that makes it more difficult.
“We know we have to add to the quality level and we are looking to do that."
He added: “I’ve told the board the type of quality we need and the players we need, and the chairman is working actively to try and get them over the line.
“It’s down to him now to find the finance for the deals.
“We have all learned, the club has learned. Last time we went close but we needed more.
“We are in a position to attempt to get more, but there are still certain guidelines the club wants to work under and it makes it very, very tough.
“We’ve said it all along. It’s not an impossible task, but it’s a difficult task to attract the quality you need within a certain wage structure and within a certain financial structure, which in Burnley’s world is a good financial structure, but in the world of the Premier League is very, very small, so it’s still difficult.”
The Clarets have so far captured the Addicks duo Nick Pope and Johann Gudmundsson. Second bids to sign Rams' Jeff Hendrick and Seagulls' Dale Stephens have already been rejected.
Sean is aware he needs to strengthen his squad in central midfield but realises it will be difficult to bring in the required quality within his budget restraints.
The last time the Clarets appeared in the top flight of English football the club spent roughly £10m on transfers. This amount proved to the second lowest transfer outlay in modern times behind Blackpool's miserly spend in 2010.
The new SKY £5bn television deal means Premier League clubs are now richer than ever before. New England supremo Sam Allardyce alluded to the problem last week.
Sam said, "The problem is that everybody thinks the money makes things easier, but it's actually made things more difficult, because we all have the same money and everybody else has got so much more expensive."
Burnley, already odds on favourites with the bookies for an immediate return to the Championship may well have to dig deeper into the war chest if they hope to survive. (TEC).