The Burnley Sentinel
Squad18 Jun 2029
A fracture rules Danny Ings out for 121 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Burnley will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market18 Jun 2029
Terms done: Daniel James is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Leyton Orient waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Burnley is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market18 Jun 2029
Jamie Cumming 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.
Transfer targets18 Jun 2029
Door shut on Mason Melia
Burnley asked and Peterborough United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout18 Jun 2029
Anthony Moore: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Burnley have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market18 Jun 2029
Emiliano Buendía has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Burnley can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Market18 Jun 2029
Burnley say no — this time
The offer from Sheffield United for Michael Obafemi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Tempers go at Burnley
Guglielmo Vicario 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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Words at Burnley training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Pereira is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Squad A move Kevin Giménez would have made for nothing
- The dugout Carlos Baleba knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Luca Scanlon