BURNLEY’S new status as one of the most profitable clubs in Europe will not ‘change the business plan’ when it comes to new signings, according to boss Sean Dyche.

UEFA’s European Footballing Landscape report, which covered the financial year for 2014/15, placed the Clarets 10th in Europe for operating profit, with €54m.

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That places Burnley fifth in England, behind Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City, while Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Juventus, Barcelona and Zenit St Petersburg are the only clubs above them.

It is elite company the Clarets are keeping, but Dyche isn’t concerned that the report could change expectations of what Burnley could achieve on the pitch.

“That’s part of life. It doesn’t change the business plan,” he said on the possibility of increased expectations of the club.

“If you look at the expense needed to keep a successful team going and look at the way this club is run, it can deal with year two, three and four. Not many clubs can.

“Many clubs go in year one and they’re already immediately in huge debt. There’s a number in the Premier League, only in there for a couple of seasons, who have massive debts. We haven’t got that.

“It’s what is right for each individual club. Some other clubs who carry those debts have got substantial backing.”

Dyche added: “There’s still a level that this club can go to and a level that it can’t go to. You can only offer the best you can.

“The trouble comes that you offer more than than you are capable of offering and if it doesn’t work we’ve all seen the stories down the years of the heaven of being in the Premier League and then the hell of not being in the Premier League.”

The report listed the Clarets as having the fifth highest net profit for the year, behind Liverpool, Newcastle, Real Madrid and Leicester City, and the 44th highest revenue in Europe.

Burnley twice broke their transfer record in the summer following the year the report was based on and the club is debt free.

And Dyche is happy to work with what he is given insisting it remains a challenge for Burnley to compete in the transfer market.

“Maybe my understanding has a bit more clarity to it that I saw Watford go from Premier League to 24 hours from going into receivership in three years,” said Dyche.

“That’s maybe something that subliminally has always stuck with me.

“I’m sensible enough to understand the reality of football. It’s my style to work with the club on what it needs to achieve.

“Other managers say ‘give me everything, I’m going to spend everything’. That’s fine, I’ve got no issue with that, it’s just not my style unless the club make it clear ‘go for your life’, then I’d sign as many of the best players as I can, but they’d still have to fit with what the team needs.

“If it was an open chequebook then I’d go out and start looking wherever we could to get players, whereas at the minute we have to look in certain areas that are appropriate for the club.

“It’s a club that has to be run properly. It’s not one with benefactors who can say ‘it doesn’t matter because here’s £100million’.

“It is hard at times as a manager. You want to buy the best players you can and you want to increase your chances of being successful, but there has to be a balance to that and I get it.

“I’ve always said if it was a different club with a different ownership who said ‘don’t worry about the club because we’re going to back the club for the next 20 years and put millions in’, I’d spend it

“But it’s not the case, so I manage what’s given to me. That’s just the way I thought it always should be done.”