The Burnley Sentinel
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Mao Hosoya will not be coming to Burnley
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Kashiwa Reysol is saying, and nobody at Burnley is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Burnley make their move for Josh Doig
$27.3M on the table at Sassuolo. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Gianluca Scamacca
Burnley asked and Atalanta said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $5.3M for Bae Jun-Ho
Burnley have gone to Stoke City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market17 Aug 2026
Burnley get their man
The chase for Viktor Johansson ended with $4.4M changing hands and Stoke City out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market17 Aug 2026
Burnley turn down Walsall for Tommy McDermott
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Burnley go back to the board over Bae Jun-Ho
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $5.5M — a club that wants Bae Jun-Ho enough to be asked twice.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Burnley
Grégoire Coudert was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Burnley
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Burnley
- Market One of our own: Anthony Johnson joins the Burnley first team
- Market Matthew Wood steps up from the Burnley academy