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Claretspice - I was talking about getting Gibson not Keane. I’m not saying our transfer dealings have been perfect - but we have made a lot more good decisions than bad. We do not know the details of the demands the clubs and players are making. But I do know that some of the comments directed towa...

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Can't say I know much about Vydra - he's seemed to spend a lot of time in the Championship when we've been in the Premier League, and vice versa. The quote above definitely suggests he's tailor made for the vacancy Dyche appears to feel he has, and i see a few references online to him being quick, a...

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Can't say I know much about Vydra - he's seemed to spend a lot of time in the Championship when we've been in the Premier League, and vice versa. The quote above definitely suggests he's tailor made for the vacancy Dyche appears to feel he has, and i see a few references online to him being quick, a...

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Completely agree with this. We can sign any player we want by throwing a ludicrous amount of money at a club and paying way over the odds. In the eyes of some people that would be good business, because we signed a player. The fact that we aren't daft enough to do that is a good thing in my books. ...

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Far too simplistic a view - we have increased the wage bill of the club very significantly over the last 2 years. I’m expecting this years accounts to show a wage bill of between £75m and £80m - which is double the total salary bill from a couple of years ago. Add to that the significant investment...

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Excellent signing.

Will be intriguing to see if he and Mee play together at all, because theyre both very nuch natural left sided players.

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As an emergency measure in an injury crisis, its an option. As is Ward in midfield. Weve done it before.

As our regular plan, or even our principal contingency at the first injury or suspension, its a non starter.

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To end up going into this season with only 7 senior players to fill what is regularly 5 midfield berths, with 2 of those 7 struggling to recover from lengthy injury lay offs, would be negligent. As was ending up in a situation where we only had 3 centre backs last season. The fact that the risk nrve...

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I think sweet spot is 3, if Dyche thinks we need a keeper. The most important thing is we have more depth in wide and central midfield areas, but all summer Dyche has been chasing Rodriguez so he clearly wants a genuine withdrawn striker to complinent Wood. The right 2 players can fill all 3 of thos...

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It may be HITC but its also Pete O'Rourke, who is credible.

Fingers crossed his information is correct.

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Both relatively versatile players who specialise at defensive mid. Similar profiles Not sure that is correct. Clucas is versatile, but i think he played his best football for Hull further forwards, either on the left flank or as the most advanced of 3 central midfielders (that is certainly where he...

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More a quarter back with a good range of passing but who creates himself plenty on the ball, from what I’ve read. Presumably a decent range of passing will be more than we tend to see without Defour (more balls to the channels and not penetrating centrally). Quarterback is a word I've seen used to ...

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No question we need reinforcements in midfield, but whilst Clucas would be a perfectly solid signing, as ive said for a few weeks, hes not so essential as to make him someone worth pursuing at all costs. Its depth we need in that area above all else. That said, one thing i think Clucas does rather w...

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I think he'll go strong, but i doubt we'll see any of Wood, Ward or Lennon starting given they came off with knocks. I'd expect them to be saved for Sunday. Id expect Barnes, Hendrick and Taylor to come in instead, potentially with Barnes tucking in on the left. And actually, i dont think its a bad ...

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If we only made one signing this summer, this is pretty much the perfect one. It had to be a defender and it needed to be this sort if character too. From everything I've read about him he seems to be the same sort of character as those who have been the bedrock of our success. 15 million quid for a...

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I think those 4 would make it a solid window, somewhere between the extremes. The only obvious 'gap' would be a 4th winger as an understudy to our 3 main wingers. That's an annoying gap, but not too many squads are perfect. Not sure a first choice team with Defour, Rodriguez, JBG and Brady or Lennon...

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Lindegaard - 7 - couple of solid saves. Might have been more dominant in the air a couple of times but that's natural given the time he's been out of action. Lowton - 6 - ok defensively but might have done more going forwards. Ward - 6 - started ok but clearly got a knock and struggled a bit after t...

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If Dyche has decided he needs another front line keeper because of the injury situation, then to get someone of Hart's calibre for a knock down fee would be something of a coup. And if Hart has taken a pay cut to make it happen, then credit to him. Says something about him a didn't necessarily expect.

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Dont completely understand the Deeney link. Rodriguez makes sense as someone who can play in behind the striker as a natural link man, comfortable both prompting from deep and joining in with the striker. It was clear on Thursday night that we lack that. Deeney is completely different- hes a line le...

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Have my fingers crossed on this one. Ive always been impressed by Gibson and i think he'd fit in well to our system. The quoted price seems decent value in the current market. The thing about Gibson is that hes been a captain at Boro and my impression is hes a talker. I think Tarks needs that alongs...

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Seem to be playing a dangerous game here. Presumably, the deeper into the window we push this, the more danger there is of WBA deciding against dealing because they havent got time to reinvest. If hes available at 20m and we know it, and we've done a deal on personal terms, then it would seem in our...

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It doesn’t include Foreign Investment, as I think that’s Pie in the Sky stuff. Burnley are just not an attractive investment. I reiterate that they are not a guarantee of wise stewardship, either. Forget Portsmouth and R*vers, look at Hull, Cardiff, and Swansea. For me it involves taking more of a ...

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Indeed. Anyone not taking this into account when comparing us with Huddersfield and Brighton is either ill informed or obtuse to reality. He’s essentially Huddersfield’s Steve Gibson. Im not debating those figures, but theyre small enough beer in the context of the Premier League revenues, particul...

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Hoyle is very wealthy but hes no billionnaire.

I dont know what the wage equation is this summer. Not convinced theyve increased like transfer fees and im not sure the transfer fees themselves are beyond us.

Dyche sounds frustrated, but is partly in his gift to resolve the situation.

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Steddyman wrote:That's what happened. But it was at a time we had Frank McParland who knew how to deal with agents and players.

That isnt what happened, at all

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by too much emphasis, i really meant no emphasis whatsoever - barton was a fairly unique situation. the point is that our targets are aware of our interest and have been aware long enough for them to have an idea about whether or not they'll want to sign for us. a face to face meeting with the mana...

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i wouldn't place too much emphasis on what happened with barton. the whole thing took about 8 weeks and he had a lot of options as a free agent. the player's we're after have known of our interest for a long time now. No-one is placing too much emphasis on it. But its an example of what can swing a...

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I'm not sure anyone is. I wasn't, just pointing out that, with today's technology, the physical location of the people involved in doing a deal isn't a factor. But it is a factor. The idea that Skype, a telephone or any similar technology is a substitute for meeting someone face to face in all circ...

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Not sure this is really what we need, to be honest. We've got a decent roster of first choice wingers - 3 who would all expect to start when fit, which is healthy. What we're really after in that department is cover, someone we can develop for the future. Chadli will be on a big wage from WBA days, ...

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How much face to face contact would Dyche have had with Defour prior to him signing? Not sure, but would you move ro a foreign country to work for someone youd never met if you had another option that you were more familiar with? Im a bit staggered anyone is debating the idea that spreading ourselv...

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quoonbeatz wrote:dyche hasn't met all our signings face to face before, why does he need to start now?

and what if he's already met some of our targets?

Great. What if he needs to do so again?

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Do you really think that SD's missus (or was it SD himself?) cooks omlettes for all our potential signings? Maybe they've run out of eggs and that's why we haven't signed anyone yet. Things move quickly on transfer deadline day and if it gets to that stage we'll either have already met the top targ...

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Its an odd link given hes not set the world alight in Scotland, and at 24 hes hardly the youngest.

But we need credible back up out wide. If Windass is lined up for that, so be it.

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If only there was some sort of device that allowed instant worldwide communication. Then it'd be a doddle. Not sure theres one available that enables you to meet your top target face to face, spend a couple of hours with him, cook him an omelette and otherwise convince him to sign. And there wont b...

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literally every window for the past however many years has been the same for most clubs. the majority of moves happen in and around the last week. with us its the key transactions that usually are the ones that happen near to the window closing - hendrick, wood, brady, westwood, lennon - all signed...

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not saying it is just a matter of time spice but there's really no point in getting too bothered about something that hasn't happened yet. our transfer window dealings generally always go right to the wire as circumstances dictate. Not sure circumstances do dictate that all[u our business goes to t...

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absolutely there's room for improvement but in the context of what it was and where we're up to in pre-season, it was a good performance. there had been one meaningful friendly before the aberdeen game and most player only played an hour. i'm confident we'll be a lot better this week and a lot bett...

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quoonbeatz wrote:patience, sportsfans, patience.

Quite right Quoon, but there's been lots of patience preached this summer- but the manager's recent comments do not suggest it is all just a matter of time. And there's not much of it left.

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The expression is "fix the roof whilst the sunshine", Spijed. Leicester have lost their best player this summer, and may lose one of their best defenders. Their problem is replacing them - but they've still brought players in (including Jonny Evans, who was presumably signed with Maguire's departure...

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And what will that judgement be worth? Suppose that it is universally agreed that we haven't had a good transfer window. So what? We shrug our shoulders and move on. We've had a succession of very successful transfer windows throughout Sean Dyche's reign, as our current league position proves. If w...

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In ten days' time we will have played (hopefully) three competitive fixtures this season; none of them against English clubs. Are you seriously suggesting that will be long enough to "sit in judgement"? And if you are going to sit in judgement, will you take the whole body of work in Sean Dyche's t...

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The problem with throwing all the stick at Garlick is that we don't know how the recruitment team actually works. There are a number of murmurings across a variety of different 'sources' but how do we know which is correct? It's mooted that Dyche wants a particular character and that there are only...

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Troubling comments.

No other way of spinning them really.

Its a tough market for everyone, and we're not paupers with an under developed infrastructure these days.

10 days to go before we're all entitled to sit in judgment, but those comments don't remotwly suggest we're on track.

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I've been reasonably supportive of the club so far this summer and fairly relaxed about the lack of completed moves in the transfer market - because, as I keep reminding myself, we don't need lots of signings (4 ideally, 3 at a pinch, give or take the goalkeeping position) and we appear to have been...

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Morning Tony-about a month ago I saw an extract published from an American report on PL player salaries. It showed Brady, Defour, Cork and a few more Burnley players on £35k a week(£1.8m a year) and went down to the lower payers. Players who had been there some time were lower down the pay scale ie...

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With our Dawson & Mawson valued at 20m and then another 8m on wages over 3 years - Can we really afford to let Ben Mee leave for nothing? At what point does our experience of this year’s transfer window change our stance on Ben’s contract standoff? Big 10 days ahead. With another £120m on the line ...

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He might say that, but that's not the case. Given we went through last season a centre back light, have a clear interest in another striker, and have lost 3 midfielders/ wide players since last season so have lost a lot of depth in those departments, Id be pretty disappointed if we didnt want at le...

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We played well last night in what was effectively a competitive pre-season game. First half we looked lively, played some good passing football and created some opportunities albeit without testing their keeper. The penalty was a joke - expect hundreds this season if thats the benchmark. Second hal...

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More like 2 weeks shy of the Chelsea game though - that was 12 of August. That's the best part of half a pre-season. The 10 days thing is charitable, its based on the fact most of our lads have played in the Championship when you start a week earlier. Fitness and match-readiness (and the mentality o...

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We looked under-prepared, which we were. So we were always going to give something away in that respect - but I was pleased at how well we kept going in the final quarter given our relative lack of 90 minutes. Our big problem last night was that last night (particularly without Defour) called for a ...

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