Sporting director Graeme Mathie insists Hibs will demand a massive transfer fee if one of their prize assets are to leave Easter Road this summer.
Kevin Nisbet has been linked with a move to Celtic as well as Spartak Moscow and Krasnodar, who are thought to be tracking the free-scoring striker.
Nisbet caught they eye finished his first season in the Scottish Premiership as the Hibees’ top scorer and was called ip to Steve Clarke's Euro 2020 squad.
Hibs knocked back a £3million bid from Birmingham City in January, and although the player then handed in a transfer request he still has three years left to run on his contract at Easter Road.
Academy graduates Josh Doig and Ryan Porteous also look to be attracting interest from south of the border.
Mathie insists no player will be allowed to leave the capital on the cheap - claiming he is keen to smash the record transfer fee received by the club.
That would need to top the £4.4million paid out by Celtic for Scott Brown all the way back in 2007.
The club chief compared Nisbet's rise to that of Ivan Toney at Brentford - who will play in the Premier League next season just 12 months on from leaving League One side Peterborough.
Mathie told The Athletic: “It’s a bit of a personal crusade but I’d love to break the club’s transfer record.
“With the Brexit market as it is, we should be getting more money for Scottish players.
“I have had some robust conversations where I’ve said, ‘If you take the player at our club and make them Belgian or Dutch or Swedish, we’re not talking about the same number (transfer fee)’.
"Our league is competitive, our club competed in the top end of it and played in national semi-finals and finals last year. At some point, people need to recognise that.
“There is a long list now of players who have gone down south and done very well.
“The bit that annoys me, and I don’t mind saying it, but (Brentford striker) Ivan Toney leaves League One (Peterborough United) for the Championship for significantly more than what we have potentially been offered for our players.
"He had an incredibly good season, but nobody can tell me that scoring goals in League One is worth five or six times the money of someone scoring goals at the top end of the Premiership. That is the part that has to change.
“I don’t see why they are perceived as significantly better.”
