Hull City boss Steve Bruce is prepared to pay higher fees for top British talent.
This summer Bruce has shunned the European market favoured by many of his counterparts.
"There's the problem in our game. You identify a young English lad but you can get a player from overseas for half the price," Bruce told the Hull Daily Mail.
"If I can buy in our market I always will. You pay a premium for a young British player and that's what we've done.
"We've got a 22-year-old, a 24-year-old and a 26-year-old. It's cost us more money but I would expect that.
"You know what you're going to get. There'll come a time when I know what I'm going to get from the foreign market and hopefully we can get that set-up in the next 12 months.
"To really progress into the foreign market, the next stage for the club is to have people working for us scouring Germany, Italy, Spain and France. We're not ready for that yet."
