Sean Dyche will pit his wits against a familiar face when Burnley come up against Leicester on Saturday.
Dyche is good friends with new Foxes boss Brendan Rodgers and occasionally seeks advice on managerial matters from the Northern Irishman.
“I get on well with Brendan,” said Dyche.
“He’s someone I ring now and again for general chats and sometimes advice, like I do with a number of different managers, and chew the fat really.
“He’s a really good guy, I think he did a really good job, of course, at Celtic.
“I personally thought he was ever so unlucky to come out of Liverpool, but obviously stakes are high there, and now he’s gone into Leicester and he’ll be looking to put down what he thinks is right for the squad there.
“I don’t think there’ll be radical change yet because he’s got the players that he’s got.
“I think he’ll work wisely and I don’t think he’ll come too far away from their strengths but still adding what he thinks is right and proper for the team.
“They’ll adapt to that and hopefully we catch them before they’ve adapted and we deliver a good performance ourselves.”
Not that Dyche will be losing too much sleep over the situation, saying: “You can spend a lot of energy worrying about everyone else but, at the end of the day, you’ve got to get on with your own business.
“We saw last week, big results change (things), and we’ve had big results, we beat Tottenham and I don’t think anyone fancied that one for us. You have to look after yourselves and that’s what we continue to focus on.”
“I think there’s an in-built experience level that helps,” he said.
“We never give them anything other than the truth. We are where we are but, from where we were early season, we’ve shifted a long way and that’s been down to the players delivering good performances.
“We’ve been down in these situations before where we’ve been fighting to stay in the Premier League so you want that to add into the armoury.”
