Can Relegated Burnley Stop Yo-yo Effect - And Do They Want To?

Six of Sean Dyche's 8 afloat seasons successful complaint of Burnley were successful nan Premier League, winning promotion successful his first and 3rd afloat campaigns successful charge.

But since sacking Dyche successful April 2022 pinch nan nine 4 points adrift pinch 8 games left, they person not stayed still.

The Clarets went down that season.

Under Vincent Kompany, they won nan 2022-23 Championship title pinch 101 points - earlier being relegated pinch conscionable 24 points.

With Parker successful charge, they went up again pinch 100 points, only conceding 16 goals, but person now been relegated pinch 4 games remaining.

"It's a difficult 1 because we've been a spot spoiled pinch nan Sean Dyche era erstwhile we moreover sewage into Europe 1 twelvemonth - we overachieved massively," said Little, who played for nan nine successful nan 2nd and 3rd tiers betwixt 1997 and 2004.

"He didn't moreover really walk a batch of money and it was conscionable a bully group of lads, bully characters who managed to each turn together."

Little continued: "Vincent Kompany wholly changed nan style of football, nan measurement we played. They were 1 of nan champion Championship teams we've ever seen.

"It was nan first clip wherever we really went up and spent a batch of money. A batch of young players, a batch of overseas players, which wasn't needfully nan Burnley way.

"And past consecutive backmost down, and Vincent Kompany leaves for Bayern Munich.

"It's near to Scott Parker to woody pinch nan Championship. A batch of players left, it was each a spot of a mess, but they regrouped and had different awesome season.

"They signed a fewer much knowledgeable players this time, truthful they tried a different style of signings, but past that hasn't worked either."

The supporters are not happy.

As nan BBC's Burnley instrumentality writer Natalie Bromley put it this week: "We are truthful very anemic arsenic a club. A nine of nothingness. With nary clear personality and nary of nan East Lancashire grit that has tally done our DNA since 1882."