Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
Cheers UG, I appreciate that. I think our main point of difference is that you believe Dyche has only one way of playing and cannot play any other way. I don't agree with that, and I've seen the evidence with my own eyes, entertaining, attacking football when winning two promotions from the Championship.

And much more recently, just three years ago 2019/20, we finished 10th, and what do you think the following clubs had in common, Sheffield United, Newcastle, Crystal Palace, Brighton, Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Watford and Norwich ? They all scored fewer goals than Sean Dyche's Burnley. And what did the following managers have in common, Roy Hodgson, Graham Potter, Eddie Howe, Chris Wilder, Dean Smith and Steve Bruce ? They all managed clubs who scored fewer goals than Sean Dyche's Burnley.

You say he can only get results by playing negative, crap football, so what on earth were those other teams and managers playing then ? You say he has a comfort zone, he reverts to type, but this is only three years ago, what type is he reverting to ? Admittedly the football has gone downhill since, but guess what else happened three years ago. The money to refresh the squad dried up. I don't think this is a co-incidence.

You say he can't play any other way than that dismal turgid stuff Everton served up last night. I'm just saying that the evidence, and quite recent evidence, shows that he can.
Sinkov, I am not saying you are wrong. You may absolutely be right and I may be talking absolute b*****. However this is just what / how I feel. I will be the first to hold my hands up the first time he plays an attacking brand of football for a consistent length of time.

I think his goto style is a defensive 'framework'. I cannot see him changing, I don't think he has it in him. He could never get a team to play the way VK does. Absolutely never. I don't think he even wants that. I know now I will not see a Dyche team play this way. Not a chance.

Going to your point of his style with Burnley where you say he did play attacking football, I just feel those days are gone and he has been mentally effected/scarred. I could even say it took him some time to make the team less dynamic. He became obsessed with parking a bus and nicking a goal.

To reply to your list of managers, again I am not saying they had to score more goals or get more points. My whole point is the type of football that is played. I think all of them played better football than Dyche.

Like I say it will be interesting to see his journey. I would love you to be right. For what ever reason I just cannot see it though.