SEAN Dyche says he is going into the 2015/16 season with the biggest transfer budget he has had as Burnley boss.

The Clarets have yet to make their first move of the summer ahead of what they intend to be another positive Championship campaign.

But while outgoings currently outnumber incomings, with Danny Ings on his way to Liverpool and Kieran Trippier on the verge of a move to Spurs - as well as speculation surrounding captain Jason Shackell, goalkeeper Tom Heaton and defender Stephen Ward - Dyche has been boosted by being able to flex more financial muscle than at any other time during his two-and-a-half years in charge at Turf Moor.

The Burnley manager was not prepared to disclose any figures involved with his transfer kitty, but said: “There is money available.

“We’re in a position to be more pro-active than we have over the last few years.

“There’s flexibility now. There wasn’t before.

“Last season and this season there’s more financial flexibility.”

But Dyche maintained that the club’s accounts would not be put in jeopardy.

“There still is a reality to the club. People sometimes forget that,” he said.

“The reality of a club of this size, for example if you did have £10million to go and spend on one player you have to pay the wages of that £10million player.

“People think you can do the wages or do the fee. It doesn’t work like that. There still has to be a balance to it.

“There is a reality to this football club – there always has been, this is not new information.

“I would say that has moved forward though, so we can be more productive in keeping our players and bringing new players in.”

Burnley earned £62.5million in prize money from their Premier League season, which will be topped up by compensation for Ings - expected to be upwards of £5million - and an anticipated £3.5m fee for Trippier, while parachute payments will be drip-fed over the next three years.

Aston Villa right back Matt Lowton has been targeted as a £1m replacement for Trippier.

The club has made changes to its recruitment staff since the end of last season, with the appointment of Frank McParland as sporting director and the departure of head of recruitment Lee Darnborough.

The club has been criticised over the lack of transfer activity over the last 12 months, notably last January, but Dyche said: “I’ve made it clear there were things that were alive that went away from us last year, not, from our doing.

“That sometimes is the nature of recruitment. You can keep throwing money at a situation that is just not available.

“So it is finding the right ones. I speak to some of the big name managers in this country, they have exactly the same problem, it’s just a different level of the market.

“There is the idea of ‘Does the club want to sell?; Does the player want to come?; Is everyone happy with the deal?’. It goes on at any level of football.”

He added: “The thing that’s changed the Championship market is that there are so many clubs that are so wealthy now.

“We’re relatively new to the wealth scene, certainly since I came to this football club. I didn’t spend hardly a penny for 18 months, whereas clubs over the last 10 years have put lots of money on the pitch to try to get into the Premier League.

“I think that skews the market because they’re not under pressure, some of these owners are that wealthy they just throw money at it anyway and just dish out new contracts.

“Historically, usually there would be a couple of clubs that either needed to sell – as we did a couple of years ago – or maybe just wanted to bring one in and get one out. There are some squads now that are stockpiling players.

“We’ll see. We’ve got money and we are flexible with how much we want to spend. There still is a certainly limit for a club of this size.

“But it’s fair to say we’re in a stronger position to be part of that than we have been in my time at this football club.

“We can be more productive in keeping our players and bringing new players in.”