Maxime Estève

Central Defender - Burnley
1 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Maxime Estève

8 Edition

The Burnley Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Costly mistake from Max Weiß

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Max Weiß knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Match

Honours even between Burnley and Brighton

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

No hiding place for Jaidon Anthony

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jaidon Anthony, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Burnley Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Business is business: Zeki Amdouni goes

Arsenal paid $15.7M and Burnley took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Max Weiß gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom

Burnley are making the ground bigger

Work is signed off on a capacity of 27701. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.

Market

Burnley sign Liam Wright, one for the future

Liam Wright is 16, and Burnley have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

Burnley buy the years ahead of George Mitchell

He is 16, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

Burnley sign Jacob Harris, one for the future

Jacob Harris is 16, and Burnley have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

2 Edition

The Burnley Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Lyle Foster 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.

Market

West Ham United 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.

Squad

Quilindschy Hartman stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Quilindschy Hartman and Burnley agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Maxime Estève wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Burnley hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market

The Zeki Amdouni conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Arsenal will make the call about Zeki Amdouni this week. Burnley have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

No hiding place for Lucas Pires

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Pires, and the manager let it.

In brief