Burnley boss Vincent Kompany says the Clarets "were close to a few players" on deadline day after their pursuit of Swansea City striker Michael Obafemi failed.
The two teams were far apart in terms of their valuation of the 22-year-old striker, who emerged as a late target for the Turf Moor outfit.
As ever with Swansea, there was a nervousness Obafemi and Joel Piroe could have been sold in the final throes of the transfer window, such is there financial status. But Swansea remained firm.
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Again there was late interest in Piroe from Leeds United but it never got off the ground, while Swansea weren't budging on their £10million valuation of the Republic of Ireland striker and rebuffed all offers in what feels like a huge boost for head coach Russell Martin.
On the pursuit of Obafemi, Kompany said : "He is a Swansea player, we were close to a few players during the window."
Kompany admitted he would use the players at his disposal before addressing matters in the next window. He added: "I am happy the window is closed! I am excited to see these players improve and there is a lot that I am excited to see them wear a Burnley shirt and help make us a better team. There is a good mix between experience for now and talent and as well players who are going to be there for the future.
"For me now, we have the group we have and we are looking forward to working with those. It is important to get a full season and then when the next transfer window comes, we still have a lot of loan players, so the next one will be important again and we will have 12 months to get information from this league and understand it and add players to make our team stronger again next season. For now I am happy to work with the group of guys I have, they give me everything and that is the base."
Martin was delighted to retain his two strikers, who formed an effective partnership lasts season. He said ahead of the clash against QPR today: "We didn’t undersell any players or need to sell any players because of the brilliant business we did with Flynn Downes earlier on in the window.
"That’s the player trading model at this club currently. We finished the day stronger [on Thursday] than we started it which I think on deadline day is the biggest hope for anyone, so we’re really pleased.
"I think the best bit of business are the people we kept in the building, Joel in particular. We’re really pleased Michael is still here. If we’d have known weeks in the build-up, then you have a different feeling and you can prepare a bit better, but it all happened so late."
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