The Burnley Sentinel
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Josh Cullen scores twice — 8.13
Two goals and a mark of 8.13 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A one-man rearguard from Max Weiß
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market21 Aug 2028
Kristi Montgomery is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Burnley is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Real improvement from Freddie Simmonds at Burnley
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Freddie Simmonds is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Florentino Luís in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Burnley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Bashir Humphreys has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Graduation day at Burnley
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match19 Aug 2028
A bad afternoon for Burnley against Manchester City
2‑3 to Manchester City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market21 Aug 2028
Burnley promote Thomas Hunter from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thomas Hunter has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Harry Butler steps up from the Burnley academy
- Market One of our own: Joseph Dixon joins the Burnley first team
- Boardroom The ground is getting bigger