Former Burnley boss Sean Dyche has opened up about the financial restraints he had to work with at times during his Turf Moor tenure.

Dyche was sacked in April after nearly a decade in the hot seat, having overseen two promotions to the Premier League and even European qualification.

The 51-year-old admits the Clarets’ budget made it difficult to compete with their top-flight rivals at times.

"The ownership changed after the pandemic and that made it tough,” he told the Off The Hook Podcast.

“During the build up to it getting sold, the old board and chairman didn't want to put any money in and that is really tough.

“We are going into a season and we signed one player for £750,000 [Dale Stephens] and that was it. In a summer in the Premier League that is tiny.

"You go into the next season with the same players and you have to pull it out again, which we did. But it was always going to be tough."

Five months on from his sacking, Dyche insists there are no hard feelings towards the current ownership.

He was the Premier League’s longest-serving manager prior to his exit and described his years in East Lancashire as “an amazing time of my life and my career”.

Dyche added: "The new owners come in and I have no problem with them at all, decent people.

“But they just want their own version of it and that was always going to be a challenge. But there was no falling out or anything like that.

"At the end of the day, why would I let three months out of nine and a half years ruin nine and a half years, why would I do that?

“It is not going to happen, so for me it was an amazing time of my life and my career and it will always be.”

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