Burnley chairman Mike Garlick admits they need to back manager Sean Dyche in the summer market if they want him to stick around.

Dyche is being linked with managerless Crystal Palace this week.

Garlick admits those inevitable links are a by-product of Dyche's work in east Lancashire and he wants to ensure the Clarets keep pushing on so their boss remains invigorated.

"If we're successful, he's always going to be on lists," admitted Garlick.

"We just have to make sure we're hungry enough to keep driving things forwards and keep improving, and hopefully that keeps him motivated.

"It increases speculation but on the other hand, players we're looking to recruit look at Sean and think, 'Yep, I want to work for this guy', so it can only improve the recruitment.

"We've got to constantly improve and look to strengthen year-on-year, otherwise the challenge for any manager would decrease, the stimulation of the project would decrease.

"We've got to look forward and improve year-on-year. Staying in the league has to be the priority. But look at where the table was four weeks ago, I think half the division could have gone down if they had a bad run."