Sean Dyche urges caution as Burnley target swift return to the Premier League

SEAN DYCHE would never throw Burnley "under a bus" by risking the club's future in pursuit of promotion.

 

Sean Dyche is playing it safe as Burnley target a return to the Premier League

 

Dyche led the Clarets into the Premier League two years ago and they are in the hunt for promotion again with a top-six clash against big-spending promotion rivals Derby at Turf Moor on Monday night.

The Burnley boss broke the club's transfer record to buy £9million striker Andre Gray in the summer and now wants his former Brentford team-mates James Tarkowski and Alan Judge.

But despite the cash from parachute payments, Dyche will not over-spend to risk the kind of problems that have hit neighbours Bolton, who are £180m in debt and desperately trying to find a buyer from owner Eddie Davies.

 

"It's not that it's not worth a gamble, but to a level. We have a level that we could sensibly gamble to," said Dyche.

"I want to challenge and push this group and we want to go up. We have been through those great feelings of what you get from being successful and we want them again.

"But would I throw the club under a bus? No. Not just at this club. I wouldn't at my last club and who knows in the future. It's just not my thing. There is more to it than that. You are a custodian, never more so than now.

 

"Managers are turning over at just under nine months in the Championship. It's very difficult to put anything longer term down.

"But if you get a window like mine where I've earned that chance to have a bit of a longer period then I still believe manage it authentically to you, which is leave it in a better shape than when you got into it. This club is in a radically different shape from when I got into it.

"When I got into it we sold a centre-forward two days before the start of the season. That's the biggest advert of where it was going and that ain't north. Now we are going north and it's important is stays north."