Burnley won’t be adding names to their squad in January for the sake of Luca Koleosho’s setback, Vincent Kompany has warned.
With Lyle Foster still out and winger Luca Koleosho out for the foreseeable future, the Clarets may need to reinforce their squad through the transfer market.
While Kompany hasn’t ruled out doing business when the January transfer market opens, Burnley are unlikely to be as busy as they were during the summer.
“We don’t have unlimited resources, but I think if we can find a way to improve the squad drastically, we will do that,” he said. “But if it’s just to add numbers, that’s not what we’re out for.
“There are a couple of positions where we maybe don’t have great numbers, but there are a few positions where we
have good numbers.”
Burnley splashed the cash during the summer in a bid to level up, making 15 new signings in total.
When asked if there’s any money left to spend, or if the club will have to instead rely on loans, Kompany added: “I think it always depends on a number of things.
“I don’t see how we could go out there and drastically spend our way to staying in this division, it would have to be a combination of one or two really smart deals if we find them.
“You’re not necessarily always in the strongest position when you’re in the bottom of the league to go and make a case to a player to commit their future to you.
“But there might be an opportunity and then the key thing for us is to make sure the players we have now, they keep that progress to level up.
“I just want to mention one player, it doesn’t really matter who, we could mention Koleosho but he’s not there now, but in recent performances, the likes of Zeki Amdouni or maybe even Sander Berge, their performances have improved that much from two months ago and they’ve got that much more to go.” That could also be a major role in translating our efforts into outcomes. It’s also a requirement of the job.”
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