High-flying Burnley have the most points per pound spent in Premier League – but it’s grim reading for Everton

BURNLEY are truly the team to watch right now with each point they have won in the Premier League this season costing them a mere £1.3million based on their 2017 summer spending.

That is the best return of any team in this season's top-flight.

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The Clarets also pay the joint second-lowest average weekly wage to highlight just how well prudent boss Sean Dyche is doing to take his side to sixth.

But sacked Everton chief Ronald Koeman will not want to take a peek at the numbers as they go some way to explaining his dismissal.

The woeful Toffees are rock bottom after spending a whopping £8.3m per point - £2.3m more than Chelsea in 19th.

Big-spending Manchester City and rivals United are predictably low in the value stakes but Arsenal come in a solid third behind the Clarets and Stoke.

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Five facts about the Clarets

• BURNLEY are one of just three teams to have won all four English league division titles —  the other two to have done  it are Wolves and  Preston.
• ONLY a last-day win over Leyton Orient in 1987 saved Burnley becoming the first of the Football League’s 12 founders since Accrington to drop out of the league.
• THE last time they won the title — in 1959-60 — they timed it perfectly. They beat Man City on the final day to go top for the first time in the campaign.

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• TURF MOOR’S capacity will be increased by 5,500 to 28,000 to cope with demand — but in 1924 a record 54,775 turned out to see an FA Cup tie with Huddersfield.
• THE Clarets’  1956 FA Cup fourth round  v Chelsea is one of the longest in history. It went to four replays  before  Chelsea finally won 2-0 in the fifth game.

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