ARTICLE: Clarets sign Brazilian Lucas Pires

[ClaretTony]

Signing confirmed

See link
www.uptheclarets.com/clarets-sign-brazilian-lucas-pires

[randomclaret2]

Club website saying he is the 3rd signing of the window ?

[ClaretTony]

Club website saying he is the 3rd signing of the window ?

I'd suggest the fourth or fifth given we've already confirmed the signings of Estève & Trésor, and then there's JBG.

[Row x]

Club website saying he is the 3rd signing of the window ?

Him, Sambo and the iceman

[Poulton-le-Claret]

Club website saying he is the 3rd signing of the window ?

Sambo the first and then are they counting Esteve or resigning JBG?

[Chadderton_Dan]

I think he is our first permanent LB signing since Pieter in 2019, feels like quite the wait!

[ClaretTony]

I think he is our first permanent LB signing since Pieter in 2019, feels like quite the wait!

If he's half as good as Pieters then he will be a good signing

[onewillieirvine]

I'm hoping he'll be half as good as Marcelo.

[claretburns]

I think he is our first permanent LB signing since Pieter in 2019, feels like quite the wait!

Should never have got rid of Brian Easton

[Mark the Claret]

What have we paid for him?

[claretonthecoast1882]

Should never have got rid of Brian Easton

People should be banned for comments like this

[randomclaret2]

What have we paid for him?

Ive seen €2.5m quoted elsewhere

[Casper2]

How old is he ?

[Mark the Claret]

How old is he ?

23

[ClaretTony]

Should never have got rid of Brian Easton

We only made one mistake with Brian Easton and that was signing him in the first place.

I don’t know anything about Pires but I’m expecting him to be considerably better than the aforementioned Easton.

[boatshed bill]

We only made one mistake with Brian Easton and that was signing him in the first place.

Rubbish! He just needed more time to develop.

[Goliath]

We only made one mistake with Brian Easton and that was signing him in the first place.

I don’t know anything about Pires but I’m expecting him to be considerably better than the aforementioned Easton.

There was quite a big second mistake of actually playing him. He's right up there for worst player I've seen play for us along with Dane Richards

[Rowls]

Welcome to Burnley, Lucas!

[123EasyasBFC]

We only made one mistake with Brian Easton and that was signing him in the first place.

I don’t know anything about Pires but I’m expecting him to be considerably better than the aforementioned Easton.

Watching Brian easton taking corners away at Leicester 4-0 down has to be one of the lowest points at any away game I’ve ever been to

[CnBtruntru]

We only made one mistake with Brian Easton and that was signing him in the first place.

I don’t know anything about Pires but I’m expecting him to be considerably better than the aforementioned Easton.

Would have been better of with Sheena!

[ClaretTony]

Rubbish! He just needed more time to develop.

He’s still playing is Easton. He was in the East Fife team last Saturday for their League Cup tie against Morton.

If Pires is on a par with Easton then we are getting our recruitment very badly wrong. I suspect he will be considerably better.

[TheFamilyCat]

He's Brazillian
He cost us two and half million
He's better than Brian Easton
Pi-i-res

[bfcmik]

I was quite amazed when we signed our first Brazilian, and now we've only gone and done it for the second time . What is the world coming to? We are Burnley not Benfica

[ClaretTony]

I was quite amazed when we signed our first Brazilian, and now we've only gone and done it for the second time . What is the world coming to? We are Burnley not Benfica

Time will tell whether all this shopping across the world is going to work. Is Pires the first player we've brought in during this period from outside of Europe?

[bfcmik]

Even this signing was playing in Europe last season

[wilks_bfc]

Time will tell whether all this shopping across the world is going to work. Is Pires the first player we've brought in during this period from outside of Europe?

I’d have thought so

Other than Penny & Guerrero previously, I don’t recall any other non-European based signings

[ClaretTony]

I’d have thought so

Other than Penny & Guerrero previously, I don’t recall any other non-European based signings

And they were hugely successful - we can add Dane Richards to that list too but I can't think of any others.

[bfcmik]

Didn't we get an American left back who come to us straight from the US?

[ClaretTony]

Didn't we get an American left back who come to us straight from the US?

Not one I can recall, the only American I can remember at Burnley, who was a left-back, was Danny Karbassiyoon but we signed him from Arsenal.

[bfcmik]

That's who I was thinking of, Tony. I thought we had picked him up when we did that mini tour of the US a few years ago, but it was only a vague memory at best.

[ClaretTony]

That's who I was thinking of, Tony. I thought we had picked him up when we did that mini tour of the US a few years ago, but it was only a vague memory at best.

I was introduced to him at a pre-season game at Accy. He said to me: "It's mighty fine to meet you Sir."

[claretburns]

I’d have thought so

Other than Penny & Guerrero previously, I don’t recall any other non-European based signings

Wasn't there an Australian goalkeeper early in the Dyche era? With Heaton around don't think he ever played a game for us.

[wilks_bfc]

Wasn't there an Australian goalkeeper early in the Dyche era? With Heaton around don't think he ever played a game for us.

Nizic?

Don’t think we signed him from an Australian club though. Think he was already in UK

[ClaretTony]

Nizic?

Don’t think we signed him from an Australian club though. Think he was already in UK

It was Alex Cisak, came on when Tom Heaton was sent off at Brighton. He was an Aussie but Polish born. Signed him from Oldham.

Dan Nizic signed in the same summer. Think he might have come directly from Australia. His signing had been arranged in the previous year.

[wilks_bfc]

It was Alex Cisak, came on when Tom Heaton was sent off at Brighton. He was an Aussie but Polish born. Signed him from Oldham.

Dan Nizic signed in the same summer. Think he might have come directly from Australia. His signing had been arranged in the previous year.

Cisak was the one I was thinking of

I’ve just looked up Nizic. He was at Portsmouth on trial for a year but couldn’t get a work permit for him but then signed for us when we could get one

[ClaretTony]

Cisak was the one I was thinking of

I’ve just looked up Nizic. He was at Portsmouth on trial for a year but couldn’t get a work permit for him but then signed for us when we could get one

That’s it with Nizic. I think we’d agreed the deal with him a year earlier but had to wait for the work permit. So he went off to Portsmouth for a year which then enabled us to get him.

That summer of 2013, Dyche’s first four signings were goalkeepers but two of them, Nizic & Liversedge, had been agreed before Dyche arrived.

[karatekid]

I hope he’s brought his big coat for when summer is over.

[ClaretTony]

I hope he’s brought his big coat for when summer is over.

Friday I think

[Selby Claret]

Does Aiden O'Neill kind of count....?

[randomclaret2]

I hope he’s brought his big coat for when summer is over.

Has it started yet ?

[ClaretTony]

Does Aiden O'Neill kind of count....?

I'd say not given he was living in Padiham at the time

[Selby Claret]

Mark Robertson was signed from Australia - better?

[ClaretTony]

Mark Robertson was signed from Australia - better?

He was at Rangers on trial if I recall and they didn't offer him anything so he came here and we did. But he hadn't played for any English clubs.