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AGENT_CLARET wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:46 pm
Told you

Has the Vitinho signing been announced by 7.30 tonight?

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If the 20m fee (inc bonus’) being reported is accurate then i think that’s as good we could have hoped for. Good thing with this deal is we don’t owe any club any money for him and there’s no sell on clause to pay out! I think £20m would be a fantastic deal for us. The same way I thought £20m was a...

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The only thing I'm taking from this is that the club are cost cutting now, rather than attempting to do it when the parachute payments have run out, and that (bizarrely I know) gives me more long term comfort for the security of the club Course, our promotion chances do kinda depend on VK and a bra...

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Would you keep players who want to move on ? The players that we have sold do you expect to replace for like quality wise ? Kompany said recently on Collins he was irreplaceable quality wise in this division. If the answer is yes to either then you were always going to be surprised. If the answer i...

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:28 pm
You don't need to look so far back. Here is Bournemouth from 2 seasons ago. Look at that incoming spend too!

Interesting, they finished in the play offs that season too. Not sure how the remainder of their squad compares to ours but regardless, what we're doing doesn't feel right to me.

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Can’t believe some fans are still defending this transfer policy, well I can when the same ones seemingly defend the club for losing it’s academy status. Sure the sale of McNeil and Cornet will no doubt release some funds for replacements - but don’t kid yourselves that they will be anywhere near th...

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It Is What It Is wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:41 pm
I cannot understand why the transfer window is soooo long?
Should be closed by July 31 then every team knows exactly where they're at..

The good news is we get to read this thread and the next few incarnations for another 5 weeks.

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Just imagine how good they’d be if the team was made up of track and field athletes with one month of football training.

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Maybe this is why the club don’t do communication

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Not sure how anyone can dress this up as anything other than a monumental cock up. Let’s hope it’s resolved quickly.

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Who’d have imagined it? queues and some delays at the busiest 2 weeks of the year ! The idea of walking straight to your plane with nothing more than a cheery good morning sir , a gin & tonic in hand and a flirtatious wink from the trolly dolly’s is ,alas not going to happen . Why shouldn’t it? Ple...

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Quicknick wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 25, 2022 12:23 am
I would be happy to see Cornet sold for big money if it meant we were to get O'Hare. For some reason in the last few months, Coventry videos have appeared on my YouTube feed. And O'Hare looks really good.

Out of interest, why would you be happy to see that?

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In the absence of rumours, which presumably means we are OK until we sell more players, I’d observe that all of the eleven who started against Newcastle back in May remain with us, apart from Pope, Collins and Tarkowski. We also have Jay back fit who was out injured. These are players who almost be...

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Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 24, 2022 6:15 pm
Don't forget City won the Premier league without a striker, they just played shed loads of midfield players which we now have.

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Before a ball is kicked even the best team in the league is less likely to be promoted than not. Using the OP’s grading I’ll go 4/10. Automatic promotion seems very unlikely but there’s always a way up through the play offs and you’d like to think we can be in the mix to challenge the top six. But a...

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We are quoted top money for O'Hare so why not ask top money for our proven Premier league players not undervalue them. Leeds have many faults but selling players isn't one, getting top dollar for players who achieved little last season. Are Kalvin Phillips and Raphina better than Roberts? We bought...

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We should be looking at a minimum of £40m for Roberts. He’s a full Welsh international for goodness’ sake.

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Lol. It's not particularly controversial. I just found it interesting that you made the comment about Twine and then didn't include him. As for my selection, I'm not even going to try and guess a line up of players, most of whom I've never even seen play. Doing that is a bit bizarre when you think ...

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fidelcastro wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 22, 2022 10:08 pm
Okay ablue.

Not sure what’s so controversial about my 11. What would yours be?

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Such a key player that you don't think he'll play? :? I think that Twine will be a key player for us this season but my starting eleven doesn’t include him as I feel we need to find a mix between the old and the new in the opening games. I have no idea whether he’ll play, don’t think that’s the poi...

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Basing this on everyone being fit and available and in Kompany’s supposedly preferred formation - and caveated with the fact that I’ve never seen a number of these players before; ____________Muric__________ Roberts__Long___THB___Taylor _______Cullen____Cork_______ ___Brownhill_______McNeil___ _____...

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the problem here is that you're casting a wide net over the term "journalist." A newspaper journalist works in paper's newsroom and/or in the field. They could be generalists or subject specialists and could be international, national, or regional/local. On top of that they could be working for a g...

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BradTee93 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 22, 2022 3:35 pm
As soon as they said tickets against Bastards won’t be on sale yet, I instantly thought they’d try to move us ST holders from the CFS. Bastards

Serves you all right for sniffing coke and singing too fast.

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Remember him shielding the ball out for a throw in against City and thinking he’d probably missed his best opportunity to touch a ball in the Premier League.

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We can agree on that one Just seems a bit odd to attack a normal guy (presumably a fellow Burnley fan?) for doing his job to the best of his abilities. At the end of the day he writes for a local newspaper and presumably has links at the club which mean it’s not in his publication’s interest to mak...

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I can't remember the last time he had an "exclusive scoop" on anything. Plenty of his stories are as a result of a fan on Twitter asking him about a player because someone like Nixon has linked them, and him replying saying he'll ask some questions. That's become embarrassing, in my opinion. He’s a...

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ksrclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 22, 2022 1:34 pm
When Coventry's local paper said yesterday O'Hare deal was dead, it prompted Boden to write an article purely off the back of that one. It's just embarrassing for him.

Why’s it embarrassing? Not all journalists get the exclusive scoop for every story. Most news stories are regurgitated.

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Was it Real Madrid that sold their training ground to the spanish government for a crazy sum like 300 million and then the government said "oops our bad, its a listed building, you may as well have it back for nothing" in effect giving Real the money to clear debts. Can see the same happening with ...

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Sunderland?

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Murger wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 22, 2022 11:36 am
Weird how we spent so much time chasing the other keeper when Muric was available for £3m.

Not if we rated the Belgian keeper more.

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Muric is a big lad. 6ft 6.

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Haha. So glad we don’t see cheating in the glorious sport of cycling.

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We have fans who seem to think that the style of play wouldn't suit Mee because all they see and know is what they have seen and known with their own eyes. A more than competent defender who they see could be less than comfortable in a team that wants to play out from the back and dominate possessi...

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They are really pushing him into the limelight in the posts, and it’s pretty much daily. It can’t just be that he’s got the personality for it, and if he’s going then it’s not really smart to be putting him out laughing and joking everyday. He isn’t going though is he. He might do between now and t...

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Heard that Kompany was very impressed with Kevin Long’s cameo appearance up front against Everton a couple of seasons ago. Might explain why we seem heavy in the defence department and Kompany is relaxed about our forward options.

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Jesus guys. Can we keep this thread about Coventry fans please. Has anyone got the latest update on Coventry fans without me having to wade through all the bickering?

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It is strange that such a poor, over the hill player, who is not capable of gracing our defence is signing for Brentford having turned down offers from two other Premier League clubs.

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I have a feeling he may stay. I just think the social media coverage is too much for a player who is off. Also I noticed maxwel posted a training picture the other day saying “enjoy every moment until the end… of the training session” which I think would be odd if he had decided to go. Also the fac...

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Let’s face it. Some of our fans are just a bit jealous of Forest. Probably the same ones who were screaming about underinvestment by the previous owners.

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Robbo1882 wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:05 am
Do we think there is a possibility of Danny Ings making a return to Burnley? no rumours just seems to be out of favor at Villa?

Yes I do. I think there’s zero possibility.

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People keep suggesting making the goals smaller, but wouldn’t it just be easier for everyone if we made the women bigger?

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Great strike. Thought Will Norris was in goal for a moment but that was well hit.

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It's an outright cash purchase on a two year old Ford with less than 10k miles on the clock. Ideally, I'd like to run the car as long as possible. As it stands today, I don't plan on getting rid in a couple of years time which is what has attracted me towards the offer of a service plan in the firs...

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Depends completely on the brand and how you purchased the car - outright/PCP Etc. Whether it’s new/used and how long you plan to keep the car for. Think you’ll need to give a bit more information to get a helpful answer.

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:52 pm
https://twitter.com/burnleyofficial/sta ... zxCc0cxX9w

Another vid of training in Lisbon.

Haven’t seen Twine on any of the training vids this week…

Apparently having a medical for Fulham.

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We probably will rotate more next season. We probably have more players of similar ability due to losing some of our better players. Worth bearing in mind though that we’ve let 10 players go and so far only brought 7 in - so as things stand we’re not in a better position to rotate the squad than we ...

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Venkys4eva wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 20, 2022 5:11 pm
Has a ring to it!

Hope you’ll join me in getting this going at Huddersfield. Would be great if we got the whole away end chanting it.

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Inchy wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 20, 2022 5:06 pm
One of the issues with cricket, and it effects golf as well, is how long a game takes. 4 hours plus every weekend is a big ask

That’s the main thing isn’t it. And the weather of course. Difficult to get a quick game of cricket going at a school with a bunch of kids where everyone is involved.

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I reckon ‘Vincent Kompany’s claret and blue army’, to the tune of ‘Sean Dyche’s claret and blue army’ has a ring to it. I can definitely see this catching on on the terraces.

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