What? Sean Dyche is leaving? He’s not going to be Burnley manager anymore? Is that even a thing that can happen? We’re a bit shocked, to be honest…
Sean Dyche’s Burnley departure marks a serious shifting of the Premier League sands. He’d been at Turf Moor just a few months short of a decade, which in Premier League manager years is basically a lifetime.
When he took Burnley to the Premier League for the second time in 2016, Jurgen Klopp had been Liverpool manager for less than a year and Pep Guardiola was about to begin his Manchester City reign. It would be a further two-and-a-half years before the next top-flight club would appoint their current manager – Southampton with Ralph Hasenhuttl.
Yet now, with eight games to go of a likely doomed relegation battle, Burnley have pulled the trigger. It feels a distinctly Watford move for a club that has always proved so resistant to that kind of short-termism. (As an aside, Dyche’s propensity for managerial longevity is highlighted by the fact that before taking over at Burnley he managed to remain in post for an entire season at Watford, which is essentially witchcraft.)
But that near-decade-long reign can’t cloud judgement too much or be justification in and of itself for Dyche to continue. Burnley have won only four matches in the Premier League all season and are likely going down. These are not big ticks against Dyche’s name.
Still, though, None of this really makes sense. Not the timing of it and certainly not given the ragtag bunch of current club employees cobbled together to take charge of the West Ham game.
First the timing. It feels bizarre for two reasons. It’s too late, surely. And not just too late in the season; it’s also too late in the week. Why now, on Good Friday, two days before a game? If the powers-that-be at Burnley feel change had to happen, then they certainly can’t think they can afford to write off any one of the eight games they have left to try and reel in…
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