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Mark Ogden, Senior Writer, ESPN FC 6y

Sean Dyche: British managers judged differently for top Prem job

Burnley manager Sean Dyche believes that British coaches can still land jobs with the Premier League's "big six," but claims that the pathway to the biggest positions has become more complicated due to foreign ownership.

Dyche signed a new four-and-a-half year contract at Turf Moor this week after being linked with the managerial vacancies at Leicester and Everton earlier this season.

The 46-year-old is regarded as one of the brightest young managers in the game after transforming Burnley from a struggling Championship outfit to a club now challenging for Europa League qualification. But with no British manager being appointed by a top six club since Manchester United recruited David Moyes in May 2013 -- Moyes lasted less than a year in the job at Old Trafford -- the trend for overseas coaches has seemingly become irreversible.

Dyche believes, though, that British managers can still make it to the top, despite the obstacles in their way.

"I don't think they [top six jobs] are beyond British managers," Dyche said. "There are all sorts of factors -- different ownership, different perceptions, and which British manager, by the way, has earned their spurs?

"I don't think there any many good British managers who have had one good season and then get a job in the Premier League and sometimes you see foreign managers have one good season in Europe and then get a Premier League job.

"That happens and I don't think it happens for many British managers."

Dyche admits that club such as Watford, who he managed between 2011 and 2012, offer an example of how management has become a much less-stable profession. 

"Football has changed radically," he said. "When I was growing up, there was the idea that the local businessman, who had done well for himself, bought the local football club and he let the manager manage.

"It's a completely different thing now. It's become very business-orientated and Watford are an example. When I came out of there, I said the business had changed and it wasn't about me as a person, and they have shown that. They didn't just get me out and the next guy has been there ever since, it's a different model.

"The changing face of management is no longer a case of 'you're the manager and you have control.'

"A lot of clubs are not like that. Instead you're the head coach and we'll have lots of decisions to make and you coach the team. That's how football is changing."

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