Burnley are 19th in the table. They look well out of their depth in the Premier League scoring the fewest goals and conceded the most apart from Sheffield United. What’s even more shocking is Burnley has not won a single home match, a far cry when Turf Moor used to be a fortress under Sean Dyche and even the biggest clubs often struggle there.
What are the owners trying to do? Do they want to stay up or just collect the TV money and be a yo yo club? For goodness sake, even Luton Town is putting more fight as the lowest spenders in the league.
How long before Kompany gets the boot?
Do they have a squad that’s good enough for the Premier League? Their transfer spending says otherwise.
They spent £95 million on players this year (net) but the highest fee they paid was £16 million. Their total payroll is just under £36 million. There wasn’t a single established Premier League player signed.
That’s not a team built to compete in this league but it’s better than the one that won promotion comfortably last season. If they’re relegated the parachute payments will allow them to keep the squad intact to compete for promotion again, for a season or two.
If their plan is to be a yo-yo club and incrementally improve the squad then it doesn’t make sense to sack the manager, at least not this season.