A SECOND season of Premier League TV money won’t push Burnley further up the league table when it comes to competing for signings, according to boss Sean Dyche.

After pocketing £101.2million from the top flight last season in television and prize money, the Clarets’ Premier League survival means they are set for another windfall this season.

But Dyche has cautioned against expecting the club to move up a level when it comes to the finances of top flight clubs now, and insists two of the three teams coming up from the Championship are already wealthier than Burnley.

The Turf Moor chief insists those clubs who have benefactors behind them who can chuck money in on top of the TV cash are already at an advantage to Burnley, and will remain so despite another £100million heading into the coffers in 2017/18.

“Newcastle are coming up, we’re not going to catch them, they’ve got the owner’s money, same with Brighton. Brighton’s wage bill is above ours already,” said Dyche.

“Then you’ve got Huddersfield. I believe their owners’ wealthy but are running it steady, they want to run it more like a concern.

“So two of the three coming up are going to be above us immediately financially.”

And Dyche is urging Burnley fans not to get carried away and expect to start seeing the Clarets competing with some of their Premier League rivals for players.

“A fan said to me ‘we’re the same as Newcastle now, because we get the same TV money’,” he said. “They’ve got a fella behind them who is a billionaire, on 50,000 attendances and all the corporate and shirt sales.

“But that’s how fans sometimes thing, why are they spending more than us what we get the same TV deal? But often they have a benefactor who says ‘go for your life’.”

Under the chairmanship of Mike Garlick Burnley have received many plaudits for the way the club has been run, and they remain debt free having posted a £30million profit from the last time they were in the Premier League.

And Dyche said that is how the club had to be run to continue to be successful in the future.

“We’re one of the rare clubs who looks more like a business model than most, and it’s sort of because it has to,” he said. “The board here are not trying to keep it all back, they’re saying the ongoing running of the club is as important as the here and now.

“We can’t go here’s £100million, go and spend it all. It doesn’t always go well.

“There is a business angle and a football angle, and trying to combine the two is where it gets really tricky. The hand goes in the hat and we just hope there’s another rabbit there.”