SEAN Dyche said Burnley are continuing to try and work on bringing new signings to Turf Moor, but admitted the financial structure of the club was making it ‘very challenging’.

Dyche has so far brought Charlton duo Johann Berg Gudmundsson and Nick Pope to the club this summer.

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He has been thwarted in his attempts to bring a new central midfielder in, with bids for Derby’s Jeff Hendrick and Dale Stephens rejected.

Youngster Aiden O’Neill played the full 90 minutes in midfield in the pre-season win over Bolton on Tuesday with David Jones and Fredrik Ulvestad both sidelined through illness.

And while the Clarets chief knows the players he wants to bring in, he admitted he was waiting for the deals to be done now.

“We know who the players are, it’s doing the deals, that’s for the chairman to get on and do,” said Dyche.

“The market is challenging, I’m a broken record but it’s the truth, it’s not just us, when you see the numbers flying around it is a big challenge.”

Burnley’s summer spending is £3.6million so far on Gudmundsson and Pope.

In terms of Premier League recruitment Dyche believes Burnley are ‘somewhere in the middle’ in terms of their attempts to add to the squad this summer.

He said: “There’s certain clubs spending a lot of money, which is probably surprising in another way when people see the amounts on certain players, then there are others who are sitting tight and keeping their cards close to their chest. We’re in the middle somewhere, trying to get deals done which we think are appropriate.”

Last week Dyche said he was waiting on the chairman and the board to get deals done and this week he has reiterated the difficulty the Clarets face in the transfer market, with the directors at Turf Moor determined to safeguard the club’s future.

“There are quite strict guidelines here as to what the board and the club want to do financially and it’s very tough,” he said.

“I made it clear last time we were here, I made it clear this time and I made it clear in the Championship, it’s a club that has to be run properly and that’s how the board want it and it makes it very challenging, it’s as simple as that.”