New Burnley manager Vincent Kompany insists fans should be excited about the summer transfer window.
James Tarkowski, Ben Mee, Aaron Lennon, Phil Bardsley, Dale Stephens and Erik Pieters have all departed the club on free transfers.
Kompany has been tasked with re-building Burnley's squad as they look to win promotion back to the Premier League, and the Belgian is looking forward to the challenge.
He said: "At this moment in time in terms of transfers, it's a busy period as much as an exciting period. It means obviously with having come down to the Championship, there are still possibilities of players leaving because we have to let them go, which is part of getting relegated.
"At the same time, there's opportunities of bringing new players into the group who could help us already, maybe getting closer to this idea we have about where we want to go with the Club. That's why I'm saying it's a busy time, there's a lot of uncertainty but it's also an exciting time because there's a lot of opportunity and we're going for the second, which is the opportunities which we see in this moment.
"You borrow as a last resort, if you don't have the funds available to bring in the quality that you want, if there's a position where you have an immediate need to bring in a player to help you, so borrowing is something you do in the last resort. I think our main idea is to see if we can find players who are willing to stay longer at the Club to develop them as well because the budgets we're in will not allow us to probably bring in the seasoned guys. Also, do we need to, we want to bring in players who are able to commit for a bit of a longer period to the Club and create and add value to the Club when other teams come to take them from us.
"In the end it's like I said, it's something that I'm quite familiar with because when I was back in Belgium the only type of deals we used to have to make were this kind of undervalued young players, I'm not talking young, young, but still players with a big future ahead and bringing them in and creating value through them. Seeing them develop into players who help us become a better team. So, nothing different to what I've done for the last three years, and the phone book is big enough I think to have some interesting options."
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