The Burnley Sentinel
Market23 Aug 2027
Fernando Karanga asks to leave Burnley
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Lesley Ugochukwu is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Arthur Zagré runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Burnley
Kyle Walker and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Burnley
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marcus Edwards was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Late improvement for Kaine Kesler Hayden
At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Match21 Aug 2027
Burnley leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match21 Aug 2027
A bad afternoon for Burnley against Stoke City
0‑2 to Stoke City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
- Market Burnley promote Mark Murphy from within
- Market Richard Davis steps up from the Burnley academy
- Market Thomas Grant steps up from the Burnley academy