It’s Turf at the top now for under-fire Clarets boss Dyche

SEAN DYCHE accepts that the pressure is on at Burnley.

The Clarets boss has just marked his eighth anniversary at Turf Moor after turning the Lancashire club into an established Premier League outfit.

But Burnley go into tomorrow night’s clash with Crystal Palace searching for their first win of the season.

It isn’t the first time Dyche (right) has endured a torrid start to a campaign, but he said: “Unless ss you’re Sir Alex x Ferguson then football is not a never-ending story.

“One way or another, everything comes to an end.

“It might be because of results, it might be that you’ve had enough or you walk away to another challenge, or maybe a club decides they just want a change of manager.

“But at some point, the world changes for us all – and I have always been realistic about it.

“Someone told me the other day that opposition teams had worked me out.

“I smiled at that because if it’s taken them eight years to work me out then I’ll take it.”

Burnley have picked up just two points from their opening seven games as Dyche’s pre-season fear that the club had not done enough business in the transfer market has come to pass, following injuries to a raft of sen senior players. Dyche a added: “Every year we go into the new season w weaker on pa paper than we were at the end of the previous season.

“I’m not crying about it. It is something we’ve become used to.

“Because we have had this tough start, people now form a view that we should have bought new players.

“But there is only a certain pool of players who will fit into our model.

“Money has always been the first box that has to be ticked.

“And once you get past that then you have to bring in players who are good enough to go into the team immediately.

“We can’t sign players who are nowhere near the level they need to be.”