Josh Cullen

Defensive Midfielder - Burnley
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Josh Cullen

7 Edition

The Burnley Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Burnley

Beaten 1‑5 by Leeds United, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Josh Cullen 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 The request is on a desk at Burnley, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Armando Broja signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Armando Broja commits to Burnley for another 5 years.

Squad

Max Weiß is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

Armando Broja among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Armando Broja on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Burnley and Leeds United.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Luiz Adriano

“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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Burnley

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad

Burnley are still strangers to each other

12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑5 Michael Marshall left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

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6 Edition

The Burnley Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Lucas Pires 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.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 10 in, 9 out at Burnley

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 10 arrived, 9 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Grégoire Coudert slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Grégoire Coudert is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Squad

Jacob Bruun Larsen moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Burnley than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

Squad

Burnley take the armband off Josh Cullen

It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.

Squad

Federico Santander retires from international football

“20 caps. I have loved every one, and it is somebody else’s turn.” At 35 he has stepped away from his country and is going nowhere at Burnley.

Market

The Armando Broja question follows Burnley around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Armando Broja’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Looking ahead

Largie Ramazani faces his old club

Leeds United next, and one man in the Burnley dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market

Window shut, Hannibal still here

Burnley spent the window trying to move Hannibal on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.

In brief