Everton former manager Sean Dyche signs new contract with Rangers as CEO management board

A Rangers hero has won the admiration of the former Burnley and Everton manager.

Sean Dyche has named a Rangers hero as one of his top bargain signings as a manager.

The Englishman has become a popular figure for his honest approach to the game and management, enjoying plenty of success with Burnley, and was most recently at Everton. While at Turf Moor, he snapped up Scott Arfield from Huddersfield Town on a free transfer, who would go on to enjoy five years in claret before joining Rangers.

Arfield became a favourite of the Ibrox support, winning the Premiership title, Scottish Cup and playing a key role in the run to 2022’s Europa League final. Alongside playing for boyhood club Falkirk, Arfield also undertakes media, and is a Rangers columnist for one newspaper alongside work on the Ibrox club’s matches across platforms like BBC Sport Scotland and Sky Sports.

Sean Dyche love-in of Rangers hero

Rangers fans aren’t the only ones who hold Arfield in high regard. Dyche told talkSPORT on how Burnley handled their first Premier League promotion under him, with a cheeky dig at Bayern and former Turf Moor boss Vincent Kompany: “The pre-season, we sold Charlie Austin two days before the first game of the season for about four million quid, club wanted the money in obviously. Spent nothing but brought in Tom Heaton, who was incredible, Scott Arfield, incredible, David Jones, incredible. Three players on frees by the way, and got promoted that year. So what the club were brilliant at, they dealt with that promotion in the right way.

“And the reason was, and I was involved in this, but I said to them they were still paying players off from two years, three years previous when they got in the Premier League. And I went, you can’t go through that again.