Arsenal: I am hopping on the Sean Dyche bandwagon

Sean Dyche has been touted as a possible future Arsenal manager by Ian Wright. While I still want Arsene Wenger to stay, I am also hopping on the Dyche bandwagon.

I should state, before I start this piece, that I still want Arsene Wenger to stay. I recognise that that is a diminishing opinion held by a decreasing minority. But it is nonetheless what I think is best for Arsenal football club, even while admitting several issues with his management and with the club.

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As we all know, however, Wenger will not be managing forever, and as can be seen at Manchester United, if the right successor is not sounded out and acquired, then the organisation can spiral out of control. And I have been thinking about who I would like to eventually replace Wenger.

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I would like it to be a manager of values and principles. I would like it to be a manager who has Premier League experience. I would like it to be a manager who is deserving of an opportunity at a big club. I would like it to be Sean Dyche. And Ian Wright agrees with me. Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, Wright revealed that he would welcome Dyche as Wenger’s successor:

"“I believe he is somebody that needs to go, at some stage, to the next level. Yeah [I would like Dyche at Arsenal if Wenger was to leave]. The fact is would they [Arsenal] give Sean Dyche that job? In respect to how his team sets up when they’re defending, he’s obviously got acumen – but will he get a job like that? I don’t think he will.”"

Dyche has done a tremendous job at Burnley. He was hired in 2012. Since that time, he has masterminded two promotions from the Championship, a revolutionising of the facilities at Turf Moor and the new Barnfield Training Centre, and a building of a team, on a heavily restricted budget, that is now considered a safe and established Premier League club.

From the start of the 2013/14 season, Dyche has spent, per TransferMarkt, approximately £105 million. During that same period, Burnley have received £68 million. Spending approximately £10 million a season is far from lavish. And this latest summer, Burnley made a profit of £14 million and have, from the early stages of this season, actually improved.

Moreover, in the season immediately after the first promotion that Dyche masterminded, Burnley spent just £11 million. Instead, their efforts turned to more long-term investments, like the new training facility. Dyche new that relegation was likely, but he accepted that fate, and built towards the future. Now look where he and his Burnley side are. This is the type of manager that I want leading Arsenal forward. Wright, evidently, thinks so too.

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I do not want Wenger to leave just yet and Arsenal have not had to find a new manager for over two decades. But the time of his leaving is coming, and I would like it to see the ushering in of the time of Sean Dyche.