SEAN Dyche has assured Burnley fans that there is more in the budget for further signings, despite splashing out a club record £6million on Andre Gray.

The Clarets boss said the club had not been stretched by doubling the £3million price tags spent on their biggest spend, having brought in at least £6.5million with the combined sales of Kieran Trippier to Spurs and Jason Shackell to Derby County, with cash from Danny Ings’ move to Liverpool still to come.

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The tribunal to decide the compensation figure for the 23-year-old is set to take place within the next month.

And Burnley will benefit from 15 per cent of any profit QPR make on Charlie Austin, with him likely to be snapped up by a Premier League club before the end of the transfer window.

After celebrating their first win of the season, beating Brentford 1-0 through Michael Keane’s header, Dyche said they were still working on strengthening other areas, after Gray’s arrival took the tally of strikers up to eight.

“We want to be productive “We’re still alive in the market. There are still situations that we think could open up.

“I’ve explained all along it’s a tough market.

“People are not letting their players go quickly and easily, we didn’t ourselves.

“It is what it is.

“Mourinho was the best one to call it a month ago when he said it changes every season and you either get in it or you don’t.

“That’s your decision.

“I encouraged the board to get in it with Andre, and we did. We couldn’t have got it done any quicker than what we did.”

But Dyche said plenty of groundwork had been done behind the scenes.

“Because we do our business as privately as we can and respectful of other clubs and other players, phonecalls were made a long time ago but we don’t go shouting and telling the world about them. We don’t mean to unsettle players, we just do our business as properly and as efficiently as we can,” he said.

“I still have some morals left in me in this weird business that we work in.

“All the things I believe in wholeheartedly are not on show in the market - honour, respect, honesty. They’re there, but I’d say they’re at stretch.

“We just try to do our business as properly and appropriately as we possibly can.”

And Dyche explained the reason similar fees were not spent ahead of and during Burnley’s Premier League season.

“The simple answer is availability, who was out there who could have affected. There are names that I’m not going to go into because they are other people’s players,” said the Clarets boss.

“There are names we did try for, one really prominent one, and the figure that we got back was enormous.

“The club is definitely wanting to back me and the team in bringing players in, and we have worked very, very hard.

“I don’t try to fool anyone. I’ve said there are deals that have got closer and they’ve gone away and they’ve got closer again.

“It’s not just us trying to do our business, it’s the other teams trying to do their business.

“Deals take time sometimes and Andre is one of them. That deal has taken a long, long, long time to get to the point of him joining the football club.”