Dyche taking no days off in pursuit of Clarets success

They say that football management is a 365-day-a-year job in modern times and Burnley boss Sean Dyche admits that he certainly never switches off.

While June and July may see no competitive football for the Premier League clubs, they are two of the most important months of the year as managers mould their respective squads for the following campaign.

That means the likes of Dyche can’t spend the summer relaxing, with his mobile phone never to be switched off, and the 45-year-old insists the need to be on the ball at all times is even more pronounced at a smaller club like Burnley.

Photo by Jan Kruger/Getty Images

“The summer is a break of sorts but every manager will tell you the phone is always on. You maybe park it during the day and check it in the morning and at night, when you’re on holiday, but when you’re here, it’s on all the time,” explained the Clarets boss.

“It’s just the way it is. When you’re not market leaders, you have to try and keep every line of communication open, take every bit of information seriously – even stuff that gets thrown at you from left field, you still have to check it out.

“That’s the next challenge; not just adapting this side to go into next season, but adding to it where we can.

“You’re learning all the time, adapting, looking at the players. What can we do next? How can we mould it, stick roughly to what we do but mould it differently and come away from it and add to it?

“Recruitment is a massive thing; very important. It looks to me like it’s going to be a tough market.”