In any walk of business life, if a manager consistently over achieved, on a limited budget, with a small, unfashionable business and had them rubbing shoulders with the blue chip companies of this world, that employee would be in line for a promotion.

If you parallel that with the job Sean Dyche has done at Turf Moor, it is somewhat unfathomable that the 45-year-old, in his second season in the Premier League, with the old mill town team of Burnley, is not even linked with the top jobs in the English game on a regular basis.

Shoot!’s Burnley blogger Jordan Neary looks at six reasons why the Clarets chief often gets overlooked for the major managerial roles…

1. Image

Burnley manager Sean Dyche is not a poster boy, he looks like a bouncer and the gravelly undertones of his voice give him a very distinct sound, and it turns off many an audience.

Stick a flat cap on him and put a Bovril in his hand and he could be like any of the punters who sit in the stands each week at Turf Moor.

The mainstream media would have you believe that larger clubs, say top eight of the Premier League, would require someone with a little more style of the ilk of an Eddie Howe, with his blonde hair, dulcet tones and clean cut image, rather than the steely substance Dyche injects into a side.

The two have had paralleled success, so it is puzzling why Howe’s name is banded about, opposed to Dyche’s.

2. European signings

The Burnley gaffer has had very limited success with players brought in from the continent, the most high profile of those signings, Steven Defour (Above), has largely been played out wide and has shown glimpses of quality in fits and starts.

The Clarets chief very much likes to pack his team with players from the shores of Britain and Ireland, which works for a club of the stature of Burnley, however many of top clubs may see this as an Achilles heel, as they scout the best talent from around the globe and would expect Dyche to get the maximum out of them.

3. Fan backlash

Gary Neville put it best when describing the modern day game – “football is all about immediacy”.

Fans want instant success and if Dyche was to be handed a job at the top of the game, the clock, and sections of the supporters, would be against him from the start.

The expectation that comes with being at the helm of big club is almost suffocating, fans air their views on social media, dedicated TV channels, football phone-ins, it is 24/7.

They want titles, cups, great football and to hit the ground running, if you were a chairman of a top Premier League club, it would be a brave call to take a chance on a relative rookie at that level.

4. Progressive football

Kettering-born Dyche knows his team’s limitations, he eludes to the ‘framework’, ‘ethos’, ‘structure’ of his sides continuously.

He is a very intelligent manager, knows how to motivate his teams and get the best out of different personalities.

At Burnley, Dyche likes his side to sit in deep, not dominate the ball, go long in the channels and hit opponents on the counter attack.

Isolating two games this season, albeit in the cup, against inferior opposition being Accrington Stanley and Lincoln City, shows that when the Clarets are expected to open teams up, they struggle to do that under Dyche.

This could be construed as a weakness from the big boys, who historically dominate the ball and are expected to break teams down with a certain amount vigour and style.

5. Away form

Burnley are the proverbial Jekyll and Hyde in the Premier League, Sean Dyche has built a culture where the players wholly believe in themselves and the team when they step out at Turf Moor – 29 out of the 30 points on the board is testament to that.

However, the away form that started off being very naive, has improved in recent months, but with nothing to show for it.

The Burnley manager has to start getting results on the road to if his already high stock is to elevate further.

6. Global brand

The sponsorship coming from the Asian and US market is becoming a juggernaut within the game, the top teams like to work on their brand by having tours of Asia and other continents each off-season, and in some cases the brand off the pitch, takes as much precedence as the team on it.

Every week, on screens worldwide, deep-pocketed corporate sponsors will be most visible on our screens, having bet millions of pounds linking their brands to Premier League teams, hoping to grow sales revenue from the ballooning audiences of the English top-flight.

Football clubs are now multi-million-pound businesses. Look at Arsenal, the board will sacrifice relative mediocrity season after season whilst the club continues to thrive off the pitch.

When the big clubs are drawing up shortlists of candidates for new managers, the impact the new man will have on the teams worldwide brand will come into their thinking.

Does Sean Dyche fit into the ethos and global strategy of these conglomerates?

Football is more than just a game.