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Burnley 2014-2015 Premier League Preview | Talking Points

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Channel: Guardian Football · 2014 · Sports

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The odds are against Burnley's survival, the financial playing field hardly level, but as long as Sean Dyche is in charge there is a chance.
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Burnley are back in the Premier League for the second time in five years, though despite promotion having been earned automatically this time instead of via the play-offs, euphoria in East Lancashire is a little harder to find than it was in 2009.

Partly that is just hard-headed realism. Sean Dyche and his small group of tightly-focused players might have taken the Championship by surprise last season – one supporter put his level of disbelief at Burnley finishing second on a par with the amazement he later felt watching Brazil 1-7 Germany in the World Cup – but the Premier League is a much tougher nut to crack. 

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Burnley know from last time round that even beating Manchester United is no guarantee of success and survival, and though Dyche has been busily adding to his squad so that the Clarets have more new signings than anyone else in the Premier League, the total cost is revealing. Burnley have spent around £3.5m on six new players – Michael Kightly, Marvin Sordell, Matt Gilks, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Matt Taylor and Steven Reid – and seen bids for West Brom’s Craig Dawson and Watford’s Troy Deeney turned down.

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