SEAN Dyche believes the interest some of his star names at Burnley are attracting is a compliment to both the players and the club.

With Everton eyeing moves for both Michael Keane and Andre Gray, who have just a year remaining on their contracts, it could be another busy summer of rebuilding for Dyche.

But it is not a new scenario for the Clarets chief, who has coped with the loss of key men such as Danny Ings, Kieran Trippier and Jason Shackell in recent seasons only to see his side come back stronger still.

Keane has been linked with most of the Premier League's top seven during the past 12 months, after Leicester City failed with a £15million bid last summer, but the Toffees have always remained his greatest admirers, with director of football Steve Walsh a long-term fan of the 24-year-old.

And Dyche is pleased to see that his vision of Keane's development, as presented to the player and his family when he made his loan move from Old Trafford permanent in January 2014, has come true.

"It's a compliment first of all to the players," Dyche said of interest in his Turf stars.

"In my style of management I can only guide them and offer them what I think is appropriate and good for them.

"I'm pleased with Keano in the longer run because when we first signed him I had quite a long talk with him and his family about what we were as a club, what I think he could gain, what I thought his part of it was, what I thought my part and my staff's part of it would be and, from then to now, I'd like to think we've ended up with that pathway. It's where I said it could go to.

"I'm pleased with that because I like to think I'm being honest and authentic with all my players. I try and stay true to my word."

While Keane and Gray both have just 12 months remaining on their deals and could walk away for free next summer, Dyche is aware that even players on longer-term contracts can be targets these days.

The Turf Moor boss believes that is simply part of the changing nature of the game and the way the transfers are talked about and the fees involved in the modern game.

"Contracts are not what they used to be 20 years ago," he said. "The way the market works now a player could sign for a club and six months down the line he's already being spoken about with other clubs. That didn't used to happen, it's just part of the ongoing way that football changes.

"Some of the bigger ones - we've had Danny Ings. When I first came here it was Charlie Austin. There was Tripps, Shacks, Keano, even Andre Gray last year. It's strangely a good thing that other clubs look at your players like that."