Burnley manager Sean Dyche has admitted the club will struggle to compete with teams around them in the transfer market.

The club have struggled to add the needed players during the window, with only seven days left before it shuts for Premier League clubs.

And the manager knows that his team do not have the financial might to match teams like Brighton or Fulham.

"Brighton's owner is very wealthy, Fulham's owner I'm told virtually a billionaire. There's no jealousy," Dyche said of those two clubs to the Lancashire Telegraph.

"They've all got their own ideas of what they want to do. I want to do a bit of that but I wouldn't do it at the cost of a club, it's just not right.

"The challenge is opening the club's mind enough to go some way to keep up, because the whole of the football business is saying 'all the best with that, we're going up here'. Stretch and not break. It's not easy.

"It's tough. Probably, no [Burnley cannot compete]. The market will probably outrun you at some point. Possibly, yes, football is weird like that. You can throw everything at the pitch and it doesn't work.

"There are new investors coming into clubs across the land, there are plenty of stories not so good. This club doesn't want to be one of the not-so-good stories.

"The challenge is how far you stretch it to allow us to continue moving forward, and keep progressing and challenging at the top level. That's the tough side of it, finding that balance."