SEAN Dyche admits finding the ‘perfect player’ for a club like Burnley is always going to be difficult, which is why the Clarets have numerous targets in every position.

Dyche will look to strengthen the ranks at Turf Moor again this summer after securing Burnley’s Premier League status for a second year in a row. But while the budget will be there to splash out on fees it will be another balancing act when it comes to wages.

The Clarets chief has a criteria for what he would deem the ‘perfect’ player coming in this summer, but he knows finding a player who ticks every box is going to be a major challenge.

“The perfect player for a club like Burnley - are they wise enough to get the challenge, are they deep enough in their experience to have a head start and deliver the challenge, are they young enough that they are saleable, are they inside an affordability in terms of a fee and do their wages match the club?,” Dyche said of his ideal transfer target.

“Put all them in a pot and it’s really difficult. That’s what the club needs to keep it going year on year.

Dyche said the club had a list of targets across the board, admitting it was unlikely they would land the man at the top of the list, and while he is always keen to get business done early in the summer he knows that isn’t usually the way the window works now.

“We’ve always got targets and ideally we’ve not got just one, because it’s rare we get the first one we go after,” the Turf boss said.

“We want targets all across the pitch because you never know what can change in football.

“Every manager would want it done early but it’s very difficult.

“Now you make an offer, it’s highly unlikely that offer is accepted, it’s very likely it’s given out to other sources to drum up a market. That’s changed radically.

“When I first started six years ago you could ring a manager and get it done quite quickly if there was a deal to be done, now it’s not like that.

“In an ideal world you want players in as early as you can. In reality it doesn’t happen very often and if it does they’re big deals when the money’s right.”

Chairman Mike Garlick has said that Dyche will have a bigger budget for transfer fees this summer than last season, when £32million was splashed out, but the Burnley boss said he wasn’t sure if that would mean the transfer record of the £13million spent on Robbie Brady would be beaten.

“The idea of breaking the transfer record sounds grandiose, but when you look at the figures they’re not enormous in the modern game. They’re big for this club, but not in the realities of the modern game,” he said.

“Nobody that I’ve spoken to is quite sure where the market is going to go. They are all imaging that it’s going to keep going north but by how much is it going to keep going up. Is it going to be radical like it was last summer or is it just going to nip up.

“It depends on the start of the movement, who’s going to put what amount where, is there going to be a calming of the market? All of the market is going to be interesting.

“I know everyone was surprised by last summer. How much do your board want to take a chance for the risk and reward? What level of risk and reward are you at? Usually the clubs that take a big risk are the ones with a backer so if the TV money dries up they’re okay anyway. They take a bigger, more inflated risk. If you’re our club it has to be a manageable risk which is hard.”