Thursday 15 September 2016 17:55, UK
Burnley manager Sean Dyche says Leicester City's owners have provided a "clear message" of how to run a Premier League club.
The Clarets visit the King Power Stadium this weekend to face a team that won their first ever Champions League contest on Wednesday night by defeating Club Brugge in Belgium.
Three seasons ago the Foxes and Burnley were in a race to be crowned second-tier champions, a distinction which went to the former, and Dyche has highlighted the role of Thai owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and his son, Top, as the bastions of excellent ownership from overseas.
"I was certainly one lauding Leicester last season for the right reasons and will continue to do so," Dyche said.
"What the manager has done is terrific but what the club has done there is terrific, in my opinion. I've looked at it from the outside-in for a number of years and I think the owners have done fantastic there.
"I don't study their club but they never seem to be too much in the public eye, they seem to be building. I know some of the work they've done off the pitch, in the training ground etc, etc and they seem to have been building things for a long time.
"It seems to be quite a clear message to people of possibly how to do it. If it is money coming in from offshore, to develop a club. I think they've done it really, really well."
Claudio Ranieri's side actually sit below Dyche's men in the table on goal difference and they have already lost twice this season having been beaten on just three occasions in the league last term.
However, a confidence-boosting away win in the continent's premier club competition will have raised the mood in the midlands and Dyche does not expect the champions' levels to drop too much in their title defence.
"At times last year they showed a good mentality - when they were questioned or when they had the odd dip in performance but they came through it," he added.
"Maybe that's something they've learned from last season and certainly the season before when they were under real pressure and came through it right at the end."
