MANAGER Sean Dyche has urged supporters not to fall into the trap of comparing Burnley new boy Jelle Vossen with their former striker Danny Ings.

The Belgian forward was signed soon after Ings’ departure for Liverpool at the end of his four-year contract.

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Ings finished top-scorer in each of the last two seasons — with 21 Championship goals in the Clarets’ promotion campaign and ten in his debut Premier League term.

But Dyche said he did not go out and seek a like-for-like replacement for the England under-21 international, and believes Vossen will bring other qualities to the team.

The Burnley boss said: “It is not about Danny — it is about the next player in and he is his own man.

“It is inevitable that (comparisons) happen but it does not really interest me. It is just life and how people view it.

“I certainly do not compare players who are new to the group with the ones going out.

“I look at them, what they are, what they can give us and how we can make them part of a group to be successful. It certainly does not worry me about the players who have gone — it is more about the players who are in and the ones we are building with now.

“I do not think he will be looking at it and thinking ‘Could I be Danny Ings?’. I do not think he will be bothered about Danny Ings too much.”

But Dyche hopes Vossen is able to replicate his predatory instincts. The striker, a £2.5 million capture from RC Genk, scored 105 goals in 244 appearances for that club, while in a season-long loan at Cercle Brugge he scored eight times in 21 games.

During his spell at Middlesbrough last season he ended with nine goals from 23 starts.

Dyche said: “His record suggests that (he has a predatory instinct). We hope he brings cleverness and goals and everything that he is about.

“I think he will have adapted to last season and what is a tough division and learned from that experience.

“We think we have bought a player who is at a time when he has learned from that experience and will be able to use it wisely going forward. We hope he does that with us.”