Bolton Wanderers boss Owen Coyle admits Burnley's conservative transfer plans were reason for him leaving Turf Moor.

The Scot says his ambitions simply did not match up with the Burnley board.

Coyle said: "The plan put in place at Burnley was the right plan for that football club financially, because in the season where we came up, there were two or three occasions where it was tight paying salaries.

"The cup runs we had helped us but the chairman Barry Kilby and the director Brendan Flood poured in a lot of their own personal money - and at a huge risk they might not get it back.

"So the plan Burnley had was the right plan for Burnley but not the right plan for us, in terms of my development and how hard we'd worked to get to the Premier League.

"We worked as hard we could as staff to get to the Premier League but accepted the club could go no further in terms of finance."