The Burnley Sentinel
The terraces5 Jun 2034
The mood at Burnley has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Boardroom5 Jun 2034
Burnley spell it out for Alexander Grant
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Alexander Grant has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Player ratings5 Jun 2034
Alejandro Garnacho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Jun 2034
A fracture rules Benjamín Acosta out for 94 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.
Market5 Jun 2034
Gašper Vodeb hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Burnley can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Jun 2034
Josh Cullen has been here 11 seasons
530 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market5 Jun 2034
Swindon Town 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.
Market5 Jun 2034
Only the photograph left for Luca Scanlon
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luca Scanlon will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Burnley the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom5 Jun 2034
Jonathan Howard signs for Salford City while still at Burnley
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Jonathan Howard has agreed terms with Salford City for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
In brief
- Squad Bashir Humphreys in a row with a teammate
- Squad Alejandro Garnacho falls out with a teammate over standards
- Market Eyes on Benjamín Acosta again