Port Vale chairman Bill Bratt says his club will again spend over £1m on fees and players' salaries next term, one of the biggest budgets in League Two.
"It's not reduced from last season," Bratt told BBC Radio Stoke.
"That was just over a million, everyone seems to know, which in this league is a good budget compared to a lot of teams on £650-700,000."
Vale are expected to unveil Micky Adams as the club's new manager this week, if he can agree personal terms.
The 47-year-old former Fulham, Swansea City, Brentford, Brighton (twice), Leicester City and Coventry City manager appears to have got the nod over the other chief contender, John Ward.
Adams has three times won promotion, two of those triumphs having been at the fourth tier of English league football.
He took Fulham up in 1997, did the same with Brighton as champions in 2001 and also guided Leicester City to the Premier League in 2003.
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