SEAN Dyche is ready for everything that comes with the arrival of a new transfer window – but might steer clear of a trip to Italy.

Clubs can once again sign players from January 1 with Burnley, like all clubs, looking to do the right deals to help kick them on in the second half of the season.

Derby’s teenage right back Jayden Bogle is once again a reported target and will be one of many players linked with a move to Turf Moor before the month is out.

Dyche admits some speculation really does catch him off guard, with one story about striker Giampaolo Pazzini and a stay in Milan five years ago really sticking in the mind.

“It was a true story that I was in Milan and we were being linked with a centre forward,” he said ahead of Saturday’s trip to Bournemouth.

“But we were not looking and I was genuinely on a shopping trip with my wife as a Christmas present.

"We flew over on the Sunday morning at stupid o'clock, went shopping, and near the hotel was a bar - and I was on the scope for any kind of mini fix of football in the afternoon.

“Went into this bar for a drink and there was a TV on and then the report said I was physically at the game when I was actually watching it on TV about 200 yards from our hotel!

"I didn't even know the player. The bar I was in was owned or run by a fella who was English. So allegedly he set this in motion that I was in Milan to watch this player but what he missed out was that I was in his pub watching this player!

"I'm thinking 'no, I wouldn't be in a bar watching a player I would probably go to the game as I was in Milan!' Three pints in and I would be saying 'cor he's looking sharp! Let's a get a bid in, there and then!'

"It was like the perfect storm. We had been linked with this player and I just happened to be in Milan on a shopping trip with my wife."

On the serious side Dyche is bracing himself for another difficult January window, believing it is a month that suits the Premier League’s big spenders

He has made just one signing in the last two Januarys, Peter Crouch earlier this year and Aaron Lennon in 2018.

“It is tough, I don't know all the budgets yet,” said the Clarets boss.

“You don't know what is truly available. You can put names on a piece of paper but when you get into the nuts and bolts of it and the phone calls start getting made then sometimes that gets thrown out immediately. I think January is a particularly tough month anyway.”

The Burnley manager believes, especially at Turf Moor, getting new faces in is about keeping a close eye on potential twists and turns as much as anything else.

“It is ongoing here, we don't rely on a window with cash to go and do what we want,” Dyche said.  

“It is not just looking at players and seeing who is available but keeping your ear to the ground as well.

“We have got players from situations where we were in the loop at the right time and know the different information about what might happen and being ready if that might become a reality.

“It is not just purely looking at players and it is not just finance.”