The Burnley Sentinel
Market11 Sep 2034
Federico Tonti 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.
Market11 Sep 2034
Hamrun Spartans 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.
Squad11 Sep 2034
Words exchanged at Burnley
Gustavo Sá and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market11 Sep 2034
Mehdi Richard raises the bar for Burnley
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Burnley heard it as anything else.
Squad11 Sep 2034
Mohamed Ibrahim wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Burnley can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Transfer targets11 Sep 2034
Door shut on Jeremie Frimpong
Burnley asked and Manchester City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad11 Sep 2034
A row about effort at Burnley
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maxime Bastian was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Sep 2034
Robert Cook out for 18 days
The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Robert Cook, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom11 Sep 2034
Wages eat 87% of everything Burnley earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Burnley and Maxime Bastian
- The dugout Siyabonga Erasmus gets it from the manager
- Looking ahead A reunion for Luka Khelashvili