Burnley chairman Mike Garlick has no problem with talented players using the club as a stepping stone.

Garlick believes the Clarets will always remain, to a degree, a development club, highlighting the moves of Michael Keane and Andre Gray last summer.

"Players see that, they see Keano - Andre hasn't gone on to such great things but he's got his money move anyway. We'll always be to a degree a development club, albeit at a higher end hopefully. If a big six, big five club comes in for someone it's very difficult," Garlick told the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

“I think what we've done that's slightly different is that we've hired a lot of players who have got the hunger and the desire, whereas maybe clubs like Swansea or West Brom have hired people that have been paid good money for a long time, they don't see it as a step up, just a sideways move.

“If we can hire people who think this is a step up – it might be a step to something else – but it's still a step up because it takes me on my journey then that gives us that extra little bit, and it's fine margins.

“If people use us to step on to something else, so be it, as long as they deliver something for us and help us to sustain our Premier League status."