The Burnley Sentinel
Market24 Aug 2026
Ashley Barnes puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Burnley, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Josh Cullen delivers — 7.15
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Josh Cullen scored, was marked 7.15, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Florentino Luís in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Burnley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Quilindschy Hartman falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match22 Aug 2026
Josh Cullen’s goal not enough for Burnley
Josh Cullen scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Newcastle United, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Loum Tchaouna runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Armando Broja
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Armando Broja wants out of the spotlight
The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.
Market24 Aug 2026
Burnley put Jack Robinson up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Jack Robinson may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Armando Broja
- Market The Max Weiß story refuses to die