BURNLEY have been told they will have to smash their transfer record if Brian Laws is to add Andrew Driver to his Turf Moor revolution.

The Clarets, aiming for an instant return to the Premier League, are believed to have had a £1.5million bid for the England U21 winger turned down by the Edinburgh outfit last week.

But it now seems the Scottish Premier League outfit will listen to bids of £3.5million or more for the player.

That means if Laws was now to swoop for the 22-year-old, it would see Burnley smashing the Turf Moor transfer record of £3million – a fee paid to Hearts’ Edinburgh neighbours Hibernian for striker Steven Fletcher last summer.

Fletcher has of course now moved on to Wolves, and Laws is keen to strengthen his squad ahead of the Championship season.

The Oldham-born Driver is under contract at Tynecastle until 2013 and has been a target of Coventry and Leeds United in the past.

FC Twente have also shown an interest and the Dutch club’s chief executive Joop Munsterman says they have had a bid of £3million rejected out of hand by the SPL outfit.

Hearts manager Jim Jefferies doesn’t want to see his tricky winger leave and the ex-Bradford boss insists he wants to strengthen his squad rather than lose his crown jewels.

But Jefferies admits every player has his price and would be powerless to stop anyone leaving Tynecastle if the money was right.

“I think we have got a decent squad here, a few players have left since the end of the season, and I want to keep the one that we have got left,” said Jefferies.

“Obviously every player has their price and if a club comes in and the player says that he wants to move, there’s not much I can do about it.”

Burnley first started their pursuit of Driver two years ago and, despite him only featuring 14 times last season due to injury, are keen to bring him back south of the border.

Driver has previously stated his desire to play for Scotland, where his family moved when he was 11 and for whom he played as a youth.

He last week welcomed news that the Scottish Football Association had agreed new rules with their English, Northern Irish and Welsh counterparts that should allow players like himself to change allegiances if they have had a minimum of five years’ education under the age of 18 within the country.