The Burnley Sentinel
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $36.0M for Vangelis Pavlidis
Burnley have gone to Benfica 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Burnley bid $27.1M for Gonçalo Inácio
The offer went to Sporting CP this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Sporting CP tell Burnley: Maximiliano Araújo is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market17 Aug 2026
Union Berlin come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Burnley did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Jon Russell would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jon Russell is living that version at Burnley, and it tends to show in the first month.
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Burnley promote Richard Foster from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Richard Foster 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Steven Hunter joins the Burnley first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Steven Hunter is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Burnley promote Jack Simmons from within
- Squad Words exchanged at Burnley
- The dugout No hiding place for Anel Ahmedhodžić