SEAN Dyche is waiting on Burnley’s board to come up with the cash to add quality to his side ahead of the club’s Premier League return.

The Clarets chief has told chairman Mike Garlick and the directors who he wants to bring to Turf Moor and Dyche said it is ‘down to them now’ on how recruitment progresses.

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Dyche is keen to add to his side ahead of the Premier League season on August 13 having opened his transfer dealings this week with a £3.6million double swoop for Charlton pair Johann Berg Gudmundsson and Nick Pope.

But bolstering central midfield has proved more tricky for Burnley who have seen bids for Derby’s Jeff Hendrick and Brighton’s Dale Stephens rejected.

Dyche admitted the Clarets were operating in a ‘tough market’ ahead of their third top flight campaign since 2009/10.

“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,” he said.

“It’s tough. It’s a tough market. We have moved forward and other clubs have moved forward. No-one gives players away.”

With the Premier League’s new TV deal making all 20 Premier League clubs among the 30 richest in Europe, clubs selling their players now hold all the aces.

But Dyche insists Burnley are looking to strengthen, and he has told the board the quality that is required for the Clarets this summer.

“If you are a selling club at the moment you are probably in good shape,” he said. “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.

“It’s important that. 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.”

Burnley spent just £10million in the 2014/15 Premier League season, although £3million George Boyd and £2million Michael Keane are now key members of the squad.

Dyche believes the club has learned from that experience, when they fell just short of survival despite having to wait 10 games for a first league win, but admitted it remains a difficult task to attract the right level of quality to Turf Moor within the existing structure.

“We have all learned, the club has learned. Last time we went close but we needed more,” said the Burnley boss.

“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.”

Dyche highlighted Manchester United’s £100million-plus pursuit of Juventus’ France midfielder Paul Pogba as how far the transfer market has developed in recent years.

“What’s today’s news? ‘£105m now is it for Pogba?’ It’s an interesting journey for Burnley,” he added.

“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.”