Simon Jordan discusses what lies in store for Scott Parker after Burnley exit
Scott Parker’s reputation will remain “reasonably intact” despite his Burnley departure.
That’s according to talkSPORT pundit Simon Jordan, who is confident the 45-year-old will continue to get work despite leading the Clarets to relegation.
The former Crystal Palace owner, however, states that employment is likely to come back in the Championship, rather than in the Premier League.
“Scott Parker can leave knowing he did no worse a job than what Vincent Kompany did,” he told presenter Jim White.
"I am disappointed, in that I thought they would be more competitive in so far as I care about Burnley, but I thought they would be more competitive because they came up in such a way with a robust and resilient defence. But that seems to have completely evaporated.
"It’s often easier to be destructive than it is constructive and the best players are the ones that can score goals, but they’re the ones that are the most difficult to buy. The ones that stop you from scoring goals are slightly easier to acquire.
"But he’s gone, Burnley rebuild again. They’ve got another set of parachute payments, they probably didn’t spend all of the Premier League TV money, so they go down again.
"They go down with the massive advantage of the parachute payments and the massive consequence of Premier League wages.
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"But Scott will go on, I think reasonably intact. People will position him as a Championship manager, someone that can get you out of the Championship and into the Premier League and maybe not any further than that.”
When asked if that tag is unfair, Jordan replied: “Well is it unfair for Vincent Kompany? He’s now managing Bayern Munich who are potentially the best side in Europe.
"Is it unfair? These are the cards you’re dealt.
"It may well be that he is a Championship-winning manager, is that such a bad thing? It’s still not a bad place to be. You’re still going to get big bags of money and plenty of acclaim.
"He will want to be better. He played at an elite level, he played for his country, from what I gather he’s a decent bloke, so he’ll go – having got Burnley promoted – having done no worse than his predecessor.
"The only person that really stands out among all of the Burnley managers in the Premier League era is Sean Dyche, because he worked the absolute oracle. He took them into the Premier League, kept them in the Premier League and took them into Europe and punched way above their weight class.
"You can have all the AI scouting and American investment you want, but unless you’re going to change the entire environment surrounding that football club – which economically you’re not really able to do – this is the hand you’re dealt.
"It will be interesting to see who goes in there. Steven Gerrard is popping up doing lots of media and it’s obviously been indexed to him, but there are other people in the mix I suspect.
"But Burnley will be a big club in a smaller pond now.”
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