Burnley boss Sean Dyche shocked by Championship spending
Friday 7 August 2015 08:26, UK
Burnley boss Sean Dyche has admitted to being shocked at the amount of money being spent on transfers and wages in the Sky Bet Championship.
The Clarets are aiming to bounce back straight away after being relegated from the Premier League after just one season last term but Dyche has been amazed at the lengths some clubs are willing to go to in order to reach the top division.
While he does not begrudge other clubs from spending what they see fit, Dyche has admitted that the big numbers involved make it even more difficult for some teams to compete.
He said: “The Championship, it seems to me, regardless of people’s financial situations, that just seems to not even be a hindrance to some of the owners.
“It doesn’t even get thought about to me, they just go ‘right, we’re spending, we are paying this much to the player’, or whatever situation it is, so that makes it even more difficult.
“It’s the old favourite – ‘Dyche blames so and so’ – I’m not blaming anyone. It is absolutely every club, every owner, every board’s right to do business as they see fit.
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“Some of the figures in the Championship are astronomical - I am absolutely amazed at some of the wage deals that people are now signing in the Championship – I’m stunned. (They are) way beyond what we were paying in the Premier League and we thought we were paying pretty well.”
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