The Clarets have secured Premier League football for a fourth straight season with a regular starting line-up that features nine Englishmen, an Irishman and a New Zealander.
Fulham invested over 100 million pounds in multinational players while Huddersfield Town's more modest outlay was also focussed mainly on European players. "Our club don’t want to take a gamble, so they don’t want to sign a 15 million pound French player who’s never played in the Premier League, who’s 21, and then that ends up being a four million pound French player going back the other way," he said.Burnley's squad does feature some European talent but their most expensive signing, Belgium international Steven Defour, struggled initially to adapt to the physical demands of the Premier League before shining last season.
Dyche's side have gained a reputation for playing what some view, in the era of Pep Guardiola and the preference for short passing, as 'old school' English football -- a 4-4-2 formation, solid defending and a tendency to play quickly to their forwards. "Manchester United at their pomp, they could fight it out, they could play their way out of it, they could counter attack, they could win with a set piece. They were fit, they were strong, all the things you want to represent a very good football side," he said.