Dyche: Nothing lasts forever
SEAN DYCHE accepts that the pressure is on at Burnley.
The Clarets boss has just marked his eighth anniversary at Turf Moor a f ter turning the Lancashire club into an establ ished Premier League outfit.
But Burnley go into tomorrow’s clash with Crystal Palace sti l l searching for their first league win of the season.
It isn’t the first time that Dyche has endured a torrid start to a campaign, but he admitted: “Unless you’re Sir Alex Ferguson, then football is not a never-ending story.
“One way or another, everything in management 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 e other day that opposition n teams had ‘worked me out’. ’.
“I smiled at that because e if it’s taken them eight t 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 fear in pre-season n that the club had not done e enough in the transfer r market has come to pass, following injuries to a raft of senior players.
Dyche added: “Every year we go into the new season weaker on 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.
“But because se we have had this tough ough start, people le now form a view that we should have bought new players.
“Yes, there e were some me players we lost ost who I would have kept.
“But you’ve got to remember there is only a certain pool of players who will f it into our model.
“Money has always been the first box that has to be ticked.
“Finance has always been king – and very hard to come by – but, once you get past that, 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.”
Roy Hodgson ( below) has won four of his last five games against the Clarets – including successive victories at Turf Moor. Dyche is a big admirer of the Palace boss’s pa passion for the g game – but insisted he won’t be prowling touchlines li like Hodgson at the age of 73.
Dyche said: “The framing point of my l ifetim e is something that Sir S t e ven Redgrave said after he’d won h is fourth Olympic rowing gold – ‘ If you see me anywhere near a boat again, you can shoot me’.
“I won’t be quite as vehement about it as Steve, but it’s not for me. I won’t be in it forever.
“Roy does an amazing job. I enjoy what we do and have a real thirst for it.
“But will I still be doing it, going into that late stage of my life? I don’t think so. I’m not saying anything against Roy, by the way, he’s doing a r really good job.
“But, for me, do I think I’ I’ll be a manager at his ag age? No.”
‘Roy does an amazing job. But for me, do I think I’ll be a manager at his age? No.