SEAN Dyche insists he has a job to finish at Burnley after distancing himself from speculation that he is the number one target to take over at Derby County this summer.

The Rams are reportedly planning for life without current boss Steve McClaren, who has been linked to jobs with Newcastle and Sunderland.

And according to reports they have put Dyche at the top of a list of possible replacements, whatever division they are in.

But the Clarets chief, who has been in charge at Turf Moor since October 2012, said he wasn’t looking any further than Burnley as he focuses on the job of avoiding an immediate return to the Championship.

“I think it’s obvious the way I work, I’m enjoying the challenge here, I’m not looking further afield," Dyche said. “Someone needs a story somewhere.”

Derby remain locked in a thrilling battle to secure promotion from the Championship and ended a run of seven games without a win on Easter Monday to stay in the play-off places with five games to go.

McClaren has emerged as the strong favourite to take over at St James’ Park in the summer having impressed since joining the Rams in September 2013.

Reports suggest that the Derby board will try and tempt Dyche to the iPro stadium whether they secure promotion or not, based on the fact they have an average home attendance of over 29,000 this season and could give him more funds to spend than he will get with the Clarets.

But the 43-year-old insists he has no plans to leave, and believes that the speculation is just part of football, even if Derby still have a manager, in McClaren, in place.

“It’s just football. It’s been going on for years,” he said. “It gets enhanced more now but I remember reading the paper as a kid that so and so was leaving them and he was going there.

“It happens all the time at different levels and different jobs, it’s just than when you’re in the Premier League it’s more available.”

The Derby job is the second that Dyche has seen his name linked to this week, although when Michael Duff suggested he was a future England manager last week he was thinking more long term than the end of this campaign.

Yesterday Dyche was keen to play down the chance of him taking charge of the Three Lions at some point in his managerial career.

“The England thing - it’s a long way before I worry about that sort of thing,” he said. “I’ve got a job to do here before I worry about anything else.

“I don’t think that many have said it. My dad might have done - but even he wasn’t sure.”