West Brom is the perfect fit for Sean Dyche to get promoted to Premier League – talkSPORT pundit
Sean Dyche is going to have to get a Championship club promoted to get back to the Premier League and West Brom is the “perfect opportunity”, says Dave Edwards.
The former Burnley boss is one of the top names in the frame to replace Steve Bruce, who was sacked at the Hawthorns on Monday (10 October) with the Baggies in the relegation zone having won once in the league all season.
Dyche has spoken about affording himself an opportunity to get a job back in the top flight, but ex-Wales international Edwards believes his best route would be to gain another promotion himself and that he should be looking to take over at Albion.
Speaking to talkSPORT 2, in a clip posted to the station’s Twitter page, the former Wolves player said: “There’s a lot of up side to this West Brom job. They’re third-bottom in the table with a good group of players, so you can make an instant impact.
“I feel, for Sean Dyche to get back to the level he needs to be at in the Premier League, he’s going to have to take a Championship job and try to get them up himself, and I see that as being the perfect fit.”
While suggesting Chris Wilder as another decent option, he went on: “Sean Dyche, for me, is the one because you don’t want to stay out of football too long. You can get forgotten about quite quickly, so he’ll be itching to get back in and I think West Brom would be the perfect opportunity for him.”
Ideal scenario
Edwards is likely saying what plenty of Baggies fans are thinking right now, with the club in desperate need of somebody to rescue a rapidly unraveling season.
Although Edwards also claims there is a “decent budget” at Albion, so perhaps the whole situation is a bit of wishful thinking.
One of Dyche’s main selling points is his excellent track record at Turf Moor operating without a budget that could really compete with the teams around them.
He twice got the Clarets promoted to the top flight in his time in charge, including immediately after being relegated, in the kind of yo-yoing that the Baggies have become accustomed to in recent years, but would bite your hand off for now.
That was the plan last season under Valerien Ismael and then Bruce, but after the wheels came off for the former they never really got put back on with the latter, before worse was to come this season.
Albion should be exactly the sort of club that a manager like Dyche sees as ready to return to the top flight, but whether the alarming regression over the past year, or the high turnover of managers in the past decade, puts him off is a concern.
In other West Brom news, another man in the frame is the first to be set for talks with the club.