SEAN Dyche says it is hard to see a ceiling on Championship transfers, as he continues a complicated search for new signings.

Twelve months ago the Burnley boss said Ross McCormack’s £11million move from Leeds United to Fulham had blown the market wide open.

Dyche knew his budget would be dwarfed by most of their then Premier League peers, but the McCormack transfer changed the landscape lower down too.

Despite the financial cushion that 12 months in the top flight brings, Dyche said the transfer task had not got any easier back in the Champ-ionship, with Middlesbrough reportedly prepared to offer £12million for Blackburn Rovers striker Jordan Rhodes. The current record transfer for a Championship to Championship club is McCormack’s £11m move from Leeds to Fulham last year.

“If the Rhodes one is reality, where is the ceiling for the Championship?” said Dyche.

“That’s beyond Burnley Football Club, not because we’re trying to be frugal, just because there has to be a future here. None of us have seen that in the Championship before.

“I say it all the time, the market has gone absolutely mad.

“I was talking to a head of recruitment at a very big Premier League club and he was saying they can’t believe the market and how hard it’s been to get deals done.

“We have money, but the targets still have to be within the right bracket.

“I’m not talking hundreds of thousands, I’m talking millions, but it still has to be within the right bracket for this football club.

“There can’t be nine and 10 millions at this moment - who knows longer term – because we would have done that last year.

“We are very active, but are finding it a real challenge to get other clubs to accept bids and allow players to change, but it’s not just us.

“It’s great if you’re a selling club, because fees are massive at the minute, but we’re not, we want to be buying.”

Burnley last night made right back Tendayi Darikwa their fourth summer signing, on a three-year deal from Chesterfield.

He follows full back Matt Lowton and strikers Jelle Vossen and Chris Long into the building.

After Jason Shackell’s departure to Derby County, Dyche’s search for a new centre half appears to have homed in on Aston Villa’s Nathan Baker.

“We still want to bring people in, still want to freshen, so we’re active in that,” said the Burnley boss.