Burnley boss Sean Dyche has scoffed at the complaints of the likes of Jurgen Klopp over "player welfare".

Many of Dyche's peers, like Liverpool boss Klopp, have called for either a change to the schedule or the introduction of five substitutions to make life easier on their stars.

Klopp cited Burnley this week as one of the clubs opposing the five substitution push.

But Dyche responded: "The thing that I find interesting is that I keep hearing this term player welfare. The Christmas period has always been busy and has got less busy over the years. The Premier League have attempted to spread games out.

"Look at Frank Lampard, he was knocking out 60 games a season and then had England internationals on top. Season after season. I don't remember too much then about player welfare.

"Times change and I like to think I change with them but there has to be something inside you of what your beliefs are in football and go, 'come on, let's get on with the challenge'.

"It's right in front of us, we're professional athletes. Whatever comes our way, whatever challenge it is, we'll do the best we can."

Burnley have recently suffered three postponements and are four matches behind schedule.

Dyche continued: "We've still be training, we're still active. Trying to keep their focus on the training schedule and how important that is has been a challenge.

"My players are fantastically looked after. We've got strength and conditioning, psychologist support, health and wellbeing, dietitians, a lot of players have home chefs.

"They've got the best medical support. It makes me question this idea of player welfare. The welfare is off the scale for me."