SEAN Dyche believes the lure of the Premier League was too good to turn down for Burnley new boy Steven Defour.

The 28-year-old completed a club record move to Turf Moor from Anderlecht this week for a fee of just under £7.5million.

Clarets chief Dyche thinks Defour may have seen the switch as his last chance to experience England’s top flight.

And Defour’s spot in the record books may not last long, with Dyche adding that the club could break their transfer record again in the final 13 days of the transfer window.

The 46-cap Belgian international moved to Burnley despite interest from clubs in the Middle East offering big wages, but Dyche believes the lure of the Premier League was too good to turn down.

“That’s the bigger picture of what we offered him. It won’t be finance. The Premier League is a big attraction for most players in Europe,” he said.

“Maybe he felt at this age it was right to do, if he goes on two more years he probably wouldn’t get that chance.

“Players have the freedom to do what they want, we can only offer what we think is appropriate.

Defour becomes the 22nd Belgian player in the Premier League this season and Dyche said the new man had spoken to some of the bigger names in the top flight to get the inside track on the Clarets, as well as doing some of his own research.

“I just spoke to him about the club, what we are and what we want to do, he’s done his fair share of homework,” said Dyche.

“He knows some Belgian players over here, he’d spoken to them, they’d all said it was a good place, and he felt he could be a part of it.

“At his age he’s football savvy enough to know where we are in the Premier League, what we’ve come from and what we’re hoping to do.

“He’s big friends with the likes of (Kevin) De Bruyne so he knows the gap. The Premier League is a big draw to a lot of players and you may only get one chance to be in it.

“He thought ‘yeah ok it’s a chance to do that’. He knows we’re trying to build things, he’d explored about the training ground and wanted to be a part of it.”

Defour could make his Clarets debut tomorrow when Liverpool visit Turf Moor, with David Jones’ departure leaving a gap in midfield from the XI that started the opening day defeat to Swansea.

Dyche stopped short of confirming his place in the side, but Defour has already featured for Anderlecht this season and went through a full pre-season with the Belgian side having being left out of his country’s Euro 2016 squad.

“He’s played four games. I know the tempo is there different so that will be the question mark,” said Dyche.

“I’m a great believer in players being ready to play, rather than playing to be ready.

“He’s got good base fitness it’s just the tempo of English football.”

Defour’s addition broke the record Burnley transfer fee of £6million spent on Andre Gray last August, but Dyche didn’t rule out breaking it again in the closing weeks of the transfer window as he continues to try and add to his squad.

“The market is that crazy we might have to do more than that,” he said. “If the right player comes along who we’ve been targeting we might have to.

“A year ago Andre Gray was £6million but that now seems really cheap, but when I took him there was a lot of raised eyebrows in that he’d only had one year in the Championship and would he do it again? “Now it looks cheap as chips, and that’s in one year.”