WHEN newly promoted teams seeks to establish themselves as a Premier League force they are pointed in the direction of Stoke City as the model example.

The Potters are currently in their ninth successive season of top flight football since promotion from the Championship and they have finished between ninth and 14th in all of the previous eight campaigns.

Having fallen at the first hurdle in their two previous seasons in the Premier League Burnley are well placed this time around to earn themselves a second successive year at the highest level as they seek to become a recognised Premier League club.

But while Stoke might be the obvious example of a club who achieved promotion and then continued to strike gold in the Premier League, Clarets boss Sean Dyche believes there is a difference between they have done in Staffordshire and what Burnley are seeking to do in East Lancashire.

"It’s a slightly different version from us, because it’s all been built on success," he said. "There’s not been money to get success, it’s been success to get the money.

"Other clubs have put the money in to get the success, we had to build to get the success first which then brought in the money.

"That’s a different model and it’s a harder way of doing it. Building from not a lot to get to get success to build further is more difficult than someone saying ‘here’s a lot, let’s make it happen’."

Stoke City have been backed by chairman Peter Coates and his bet365 online betting firm, which has allowed managers Tony Pulis and Mark Hughes to splash the cash in attempting to build the club into one that is considered a regular presence in the Premier League.

But Dyche says the backing to do that has not always been available to him at Turf Moor.

"There’s some big wage bills in the Premier League now and some big money going around, even for clubs like Stoke," he said.

"What they’ve done is they’ve morphed into something more and stronger over time. They’ve adjusted to the market and they’ve done what they had to do along the journey to where they are now.

"The chairman and his family have had a lot to do that with really supporting the club financially in the early days to allow it to build.

"We’ve had to do it differently. We have to make ends meat, the club has to be run in a certain manner financially.

"Even some of the smaller clubs in the Premier League have got massive backers and if they stopped now and walked away there would be clubs in real difficulty. Ours wouldn’t."