Rodney McAree feels the current transfer market in the Irish League is an "unrealistic" one for Dungannon Swifts.
Living within their means is something Dungannon have always tried to do and McAree said it is a challenge he embraces as he prepares for the start of another Irish Premiership campaign. "I hate crying about budgets and markets but it's probably a slightly unrealistic market for us," said the Swifts boss.
"The club does extremely well to provide me with whatever I need within reason, but that's the challenge that goes along with it. It's my hometown club and a club I have great fondness for, you take that challenge on when you take the job and you embrace it." "I think it will be a very difficult league, I think it will be a very tough league. It's always tough but I think it's gone up a couple of notches again," he said. "You look at what the likes of Ballymena, Portadown, Carrick and Glenavon have done. Those are the teams in and around us who have all spent money.