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Burnley boss Dyche: Wenger producing quality English talent

Burnley boss Sean Dyche feels Arsene Wenger deserves greater credit for the English players he's produced at Arsenal.

As well as Jack Wilshere, who is currently on loan at Bournemouth after repeated injuries checked his stellar rise, Wenger invested heavily in Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Calum Chambers and Carl Jenkinson as teenagers and counts Danny Welbeck, Kieran Gibbs and Rob Holding in his current squad.

"There was a time, if you remember, when there was a fully foreign XI and Arsene was questioned," said Dyche ahead of the Gunners' trip to Turf Moor on Sunday.

"But he's actually moulded back towards a lot of English players, particularly young English players.

"The thing I like about him is he's never coming out and telling the world about it. He's never come out and proved that point, 'you all questioned me about the foreign XI but now look at all my English players'.

"He's morphed it into his beliefs, these young English players and very high quality ones too."

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