Burnley are 19th in the table. They look well out of their depth in the Premier League scoring the fewest goals and conceded the most apart from Sheffield United. What’s even more shocking is Burnley has not won a single home match, a far cry when Turf Moor used to be a fortress under Sean Dyche and even the biggest clubs often struggle there.
What are the owners trying to do? Do they want to stay up or just collect the TV money and be a yo yo club? For goodness sake, even Luton Town is putting more fight as the lowest spenders in the league.
How long before Kompany gets the boot?
The British media love Kompany. They did when he was a player too.
Burnleys owners showed years ago that they are happy yoying between Premier and championship. Personally I can’t see what sacking company will achieve. Burnley will not get anyone with as much potential as kompany has. Was always gonna be hard but if Burnley are happy getting promoted and not adding big Premier players to there squad then what can kompany do about that
This is Kompany’s team. Sacking him anytime soon would have made hiw whole appointment pointless.
He’s been given a very long leash to create his project, and it would be completely irresponsible to sack him without seeing it through.
We weren’t supposed to get promoted last year - even after promotion the club and Kompany have been very public about that:
“We didn’t expect this. We wanted to experience it one day, but we had a different timing on it.”
The players we’ve brought in over the last 2 seasons aren’t ready made players, they’re each a project and an investment. You don’t sign someone like Koleosho who played just 5 times for his previous club and expect him to hit the ground running.
It will not get clicks.
Maybe they’ll fire him in April and get relegated anyway. Karmic retribution. Dyche never should’ve been sacked.
I think because Burnley understand where they are.
Realistically they’re nowhere near good enough to compete in the PL. Yes Kompany’s style has put them in trouble a lot as well, but they’ve never looked like staying up; especially given their style in the Championship is just incompatible with the PL given their level.
Ultimately Burnley are ahead of schedule, they’ve made over 100M by being promoted, so being relegated isn’t the worst thing. They can go down, keep improving and investing, and come right back up even stronger.
Because they dominated the championship last season
They are, been mentioned a few times on The Ripple Effect. Along with some other places. Think the issue is if they were to sack him, everyone brought it was for his playstyle and who he likes hence why almost all have played in Belgium before or had some links to city. If you build a project tailored to a manager then chances are they will get longer in the job
Because it isn’t in danger. It’s a long term project, not a short term success story. The only chance he gets sacked is if we get dangerously close to Derby’s record
Honestly nobody was expecting them to survive this season with their style of football.
In order to become a premier league mainstay now I think you have to go through some ups and downs, use the parachute payments wisely and invest wisely. We spent hundreds of millions and survived by the skin of our teeth that first season back up, if we hadn’t we might’ve been financially ruined. Astute management probably trying to avoid that situation by spunking too much cash on one season in the prem.
Yeah when they spent their PL money on players, like the young keeper, it was players for the long term who shouldn’t kick up a fuss if they play championship next year.
The plan is to develop a team that can succeed in the PL not scrape by few seasons, have a massive wage bill, and then get relegated.
I am surprised how badly they are doing but they will likely stick with Kompany unless they find who they feel is a better young manager to develop the team long term.
Expectations.
Burnley were always expected to struggle and be in the dogfight this season. They also recently recorded their first win of the season too. Stability is key for clubs like that. Sacking Kompany gets them nowhere.
Do they have a squad that’s good enough for the Premier League? Their transfer spending says otherwise.
They spent £95 million on players this year (net) but the highest fee they paid was £16 million. Their total payroll is just under £36 million. There wasn’t a single established Premier League player signed.
That’s not a team built to compete in this league but it’s better than the one that won promotion comfortably last season. If they’re relegated the parachute payments will allow them to keep the squad intact to compete for promotion again, for a season or two.
If their plan is to be a yo-yo club and incrementally improve the squad then it doesn’t make sense to sack the manager, at least not this season.
Tyler Toney doesn’t have an itchy trigger finger