If he is saying that then, why given the time he was there did he not look at a club like Bilbao. They can only sign Basque players, so players from Sociedad and a few much lower league clubs, which means they hardly have any transfer budget but have decent money for wages and everything they do is focused on producing their own players and improving their academy. Why in all those years did he never try and setup a proper youth system that could have really benefitted him and Burnley as a club in the long run.
Im paraphrasing but in one of the full quotes today hes saying "if i dont have money and sell expensive players, i need to replace with cheap players and they arent as good".
Again, paraphrasing "if i cant find those cheap players then i need to look internally at youth players. But we dont have any time to wait for them to develop"
But at the same time were rumoured to be giving Coleman a 1 year deal because as Dyche says "he wants to continue playing".
They don't have to come from Lancashire, Garner is a wool and he went to United and came through their academy. It's not just England, there is Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. Far more knowledgeable people than me have labeled this at Dyche before about the Burnley academy thing so it's nothing new. It's more a principle thing, if you know you can't compete in the market then you look at other routes, academies are pure profit and to a club like Burnley should be at the top of the list.
Looks like Thelwell has finally begun to get around to signing players from other clubs to bring into our u18 and u21 sides.
We need to be doing this all of the time and build a positive reputation and pathway.
Much easier to set up as a defensive side, to go and play on the front foot and attack
Teams is harder, but fair does to Iraola sticking to his principles. Since November only the top 4 have more points,
Impressive for his first season in England
Complete rubbish. It's not easier to set up defensively than it is to attack. They both take the same amount of effort to be successful with the players you have.
In a vacuum since November after spending £100mill he's won some games. Well done.
If they lose to Brentford and we win Dyche will be on the exact same points with his hoofball masterclass.
1: It makes no sense to say its easier to build a defensive side. If that were true then Italian sides wouldnt have won as many trophies...let alone Mourinho with his defensive tactics or back in the day, George Graham and everyones favourite, Simeone.
Id go as far as saying the defensive strategy would be more challenging to build thesedays as all the top sides play attacking football....you need an edge.
2: If you compare Pickford, Branthwaite, Onana & DCL real values with Bournemouths spine then the difference is enormous.
Using transfermarkt is fine but never for transfer values. In real life if Dyche was given £100mil + sales and was told he could only sign u23 aged players...following his strategy, we'd certainly have a far better team than Bournemouth.
Just having an effective right hand side would be a massive boost for us
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