WANDERERS will not be taking financial gambles as they look to boost their promotion chances for next season.

All indications point to Dougie Freedman being backed with cash in the transfer market this summer as he sets out to strengthen several key positions in the Reebok squad.

Strikers, wingers and a central midfielder are all thought to be high on the agenda – but Freedman is keen to ensure a sensible approach is applied to transfer fees and wages as he scours far and wide for talent in the next couple of months.

“I’ve got a responsibility to the club but, most importantly, the fans that this job is done right,” he told The Bolton News. “I won’t be jeopardising anything by breaking the bank – that is not the way I work.

“We want players who want to come to this football club. I want them because they are hungry and eager to improve. Wages and all that doesn’t enter into it for me.”

Wanderers have curbed their wage bill considerably since dropping out of the Premier League and have already shown a willingness to spend within their means with their transfer dealings since May.

There may well be a case in point in the club’s pursuit of Leicester City striker Jermaine Beckford, with reports out of the Midlands claiming the delay in negotiations is because the two clubs are still far apart in their valuation of the player.

Sources closer to Wanderers are confident talks will start again soon and a compromise can be reached – but other striker targets have also been investigated over the last couple of weeks in case the Foxes wish to hold on to the former Everton striker, who played alongside Freedman at Leeds United.

The question of salary also appears to have been an issue in Marcos Alonso’s decision to turn down a new deal at Wanderers and sign for Fiorentina.

Freedman shared fans’ disappointment that the Spanish full-back opted to move on to Serie A after the most successful of his three years in England.

Wanderers will recive a neglibible fee for the 22-year-old but the Whites boss has no regrets about not bowing to the defender’s excessive wage demands to remain at the Reebok.

“Marcos took advantage of the rules, and that’s his right,” he said. “I’m obviously disappointed because I think that since he started playing regularly he’s progressed but that’s the way it goes.

“I wish him well and thank him for his efforts but I’m not being held to ransom and we’ll pay players accordingly.

“That is the way it should be.”