Newcastle United boss Rafa Benitez is pushing for an increased transfer budget this summer.

Benitez has been left frustrated by the way they have worked in the last three transfer windows.

He said: “I enjoy it when we are winning, but it's difficult to enjoy it when you are suffering all the time. You win — and then you lose.

“The priority was to go up, and now the priority is to stay in the Premier League.

“Still, there are a lot of things that you cannot change.

“Someone has to take responsibility. The problem in football is sometimes you take the responsibility for the mistakes of others. If something is wrong, then you have to change but still you don't have all the tools that you want to have to make the right decisions.

“Still you are working with people and they have been there for years and they have a way to do things. So it's little by little.

“We have changed the scouting department. We have more information. Still someone has to make the decision.

“Even when you have the name of the player, to bring the player here sometimes it means you have to pay a transfer fee or you have to pay wages or you have to attract him because you are in the Premier League, not on the brink."