5 reasons behind Burnley's success this season

#3 Summer transfers

Chris Wood scored in his league debut and has three goals in eight games

When the summer transfer window closed, it looked like Burnley were one of the losers of it. The club lost its best defender Michael Keane to Everton and Andre Gray, who scored nine league goals last season, joined Watford. Dyche had £45 million to spend on new players, but he invested only £30 million of it.

Jonathan Walters and Phil Bardsley joined from Stoke with a combined fee of below £3 million, Nahki Wells, who was among Huddersfield's top scorers last season in the Championship, cost £4.86 million.

Jack Cork came from Swansea for £8 million and, near the end of the window, Chris Wood was made the new record signing of the club with a fee around £15 million involved in his transfer from Leeds United.

Wells, Bardsley and Walters haven't played much so far and it's impossible to judge their impact on the team, but Cork and Wood have been superb signings. The latter scored in his league debut against Tottenham and has three of the team's ten goals to his name. Cork has just received his first England call-up after a wonderful start to the season.

With so many hardworking shot blockers on the team, it's no surprise that scoring against the Clarets looks like an impossible task at times.