Summer 2024 Transfer Window Discussion - Rumours and Links welcome

[claretlegend]

There's always January if we need a striker!

[MrEyres]

From what I’ve seen of Flemming , is very Vydra-ish . But stronger , taller and better with his head.
Which is a good thing for me as I Vyds should have played more.
Hopefully confirmed.

[Commy]

Hugill as a sub tomorrow. Comes on and scores the winner. What dreams are made of.

[johnnyjones]

Our last 3 windows have been great drama, compare that to the "powder dry" years and I would take this everyday of the week

[Rileybobs]

And we still have Tresor, Benson, Brownhill, Koleosho, Foster and Esteve. Yes, I'd say that is an excellent window and Alan deserves some respect.

We’ve lost 5 key players and not strengthened in the centre forward department so I’m not sure we can say this is an excellent transfer window. We’ve got good money for the majority of our sales but in the main that hasn’t been used to reinvest for obvious reasons. We’ve also topped up the numbers with loans which to some extent is kicking the can down the road.

That said, at one point this was looking like being pretty catastrophic, with a number of other important players supposedly asking to leave and/or being hawked out to other clubs.

We now have what looks like a competitive squad, which we didn’t have against Sunderland. Time will tell whether we have the quality required. What it does seem is that we’re now looking at a different mould of player with English experience, character and leadership which suggests lessons have been learned. Hopefully we can start to build some continuity going forward as this annual turnover of players is not in any way sustainable to building a successful team.

[TheOriginalLongsider]

Remember that’s the English window closed. Other countries can still do business and take our players.

[claretlegend]

Millwall's local reporter also now saying Flemming to Burnley is done. Loan with obligation to buy

[willsclarets]

I think that's very much up for debate. Especially if Fleming is a loan.

Let's say we've brought in a very cautious estimate of 60 mill from transfers this window, plus parachute payments and then brought in mainly loans to replace huge talents such as Berge, Odobert, O Shea and Zaroury. I really don't see the massive positives that others are seeing, we've downgraded in quality hugely and we don't know where that moneys going. I suppose we will find out in the next 2 transfer windows, if we don't spend anything then big questions need asking.

I'll let you have Berge and Odobert as "huge talents". I don't think O Shea is in the same bracket, and despite early promise Zaroury hasn't shown that either to be honest. Those two leaving hasn't left us weaker, imo.

[ISpeds00]

Remember that’s the English window closed. Other countries can still do business and take our players.

Go to bed now

[matttheclaret]

Vitinho confirmed

[Slurpy]

Hard to say selling all your players within the last two weeks of the window and leaving until the last day to sign three players is a smart way to run a business but they do love a risk

[Selby Claret]

Vitinho gone

[Murger]

Vitinho confirmed as gone.

[MrEyres]

@Commy would love it!
Especially as we had to bring on Jack last time to end Wharton bossing the game at deadwood. There’s a part of me wishing for Benson tomorrow for 10 mins to watch their reaction and the bag a worldie.👊

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

Sounds like we’ve got rid of the deadwood who couldn’t care less about playing for the club and brought in some leaders who know this division. On paper looks a decent enough squad tho still think we are a striker short unless Foster finally steps up.

[Ric_C]

Vitinho gone, confirmed

Good luck to him

[Longsider]

got him i guess

The journalist reporting this is his dad . Billy O'Rourke Burnley keeper from the 80s. Bolton goalkeeper scored against him from a goal kick.

[dermotdermot]

Why can't the club bloody well announce it? the stress they have put me through this last week or two!

[Steddyman]

VitinNo: https://x.com/matt_scrafton/status/1829645572070129768

[claretburns]

Realistic countries where some players could still move too and their deadlines:

Brazil - 2nd September
Netherlands - 2nd September
Portugal - 2nd September
Austria - 5th September
Belgium - 6th September
Switzerland - 9th September
Turkey - 13th September

[Cirrus_Minor]

Ivan Toney bravely pursuing his career in Saudi despite any financial restrictions.

[Vegas Claret]

Viti gone

[boatshed bill]

Hugill as a sub tomorrow. Comes on and scores the winner. What dreams are made of.

That would be wonderful.

[boatshed bill]

Viti gone

Best of luck to him, at least he tried his best.

[FeedTheArf]

Parker now has a big job on his hands. Foster, Kolo and Benson have all been rumoured about wanting moves or close to moves. How much truth there is in that we’ll never know, but if they do want out he needs to convince them that between now and January it’s in all our interests to get your head down, graft and perform.

[Goliath]

I'll let you have Berge and Odobert as "huge talents". I don't think O Shea is in the same bracket, and despite early promise Zaroury hasn't shown that either to be honest. Those two leaving hasn't left us weaker, imo.

Fair enough..I'm not sure how you can honestly say losing o'shea doesn't weaken us though. Zaroury il give you hadn't performed recently but he's a big talent and I'd much prefer if we had the option to use him as an impact sub tomorrow.

[Steddyman]

Hell Yes: https://x.com/BurnleyOfficial/status/18 ... 8434037176

[Stonehouse]

I think that's very much up for debate. Especially if Fleming is a loan.

Let's say we've brought in a very cautious estimate of 60 mill from transfers this window, plus parachute payments and then brought in mainly loans to replace huge talents such as Berge, Odobert, O Shea and Zaroury. I really don't see the massive positives that others are seeing, we've downgraded in quality hugely and we don't know where that moneys going. I suppose we will find out in the next 2 transfer windows, if we don't spend anything then big questions need asking.

I think the guys coming to replace Odebert are slightly more mature than him and may be more consistent,O’Shea and Worrall I wouldn’t say there’s a lot between them and Zaroury didn’t pull many trees up at Hull if we get the guy over the line from Millwall I’m sure he’ll score more goals than Berge so all in all I think the squad’s definitely no worse than when we kicked off at Luton and we’ve still got Esteve and Koleosho.

[claretlegend]

Burnley official just tweeted a video of the helicopter landing

[Pearcey]

Great stuff! That’s a cracking signing. UTC.

[RickyBobby]

Realistic countries where some players could still move too and their deadlines:

Brazil - 2nd September
Netherlands - 2nd September
Portugal - 2nd September
Austria - 5th September
Belgium - 6th September
Switzerland - 9th September
Turkey - 13th September

Will be another couple of weeks until we know if Brownhill is staying or not then.

[CrosspoolClarets]

Fantastic window given the carnage of 5-10 days ago.

Strength in every position, some a tad more than others but no glaring weaknesses.

Vitally - squad value will be about £200m still, higher than in 22/23, higher than Leeds and over double every other side in the division.

That should, all other things being equal (they are not of course), make it a 2 horse race.

Really is fantastic compared to my fears of a few days ago. Kudos to Williams, Pace, Parker and the rest. Now the hard work starts..,,,,

[Selby Claret]

And with a January transfer window that should include Ekdal, Beyer, Delcroix, Ramsey and Redmond at the very least

[Steddyman]

Has to be the most exciting deadline day in recent memory

[Burnley Ace]

I think that's very much up for debate. Especially if Fleming is a loan.

Let's say we've brought in a very cautious estimate of 60 mill from transfers this window, plus parachute payments and then brought in mainly loans to replace huge talents such as Berge, Odobert, O Shea and Zaroury.

O’Shea and Zaroury aren’t huge talents.

[kentonclaret]

Ipswich missed out on Reiss Nelson. Fulham nipped in and he changed his mind.

Jay Stansfield wanted to join Birmingham where he spent a very successful loan spell last season scoring plenty of goals. Fulham wouldn’t agree to release him without getting in a replacement hence the scramble to bring in Nelson. Birmingham reportedly paying around £12m for Stansfield.

[dermotdermot]

Burnley official just tweeted a video of the helicopter landing

I’d prefer to see him signing a piece of paper.

[Slurpy]

Ahah brilliant social media guy is on fire

[Steddyman]

Reveal video: https://x.com/BurnleyOfficial/status/18 ... 5296860420

[daveisaclaret]

Roll on tomorrow.

[cav]

Brilliant, Flemming confirmed. Right, everyone get some sleep… Big day tomorrow and Prinny opens at 8! UTC

[Sgt. Pepper]

Vitinho gone to Botafogo.

[CoolClaret]

Flemming takes the window from a 4/10 to a 7/10 for me. That '10' / second striker position was a gaping hole.

Positives:

- Added some much-needed experience/leadership material and a bit of steel.
- Brought some good characters and decent lads to the club.
- Got rid of most of the wantaways/dead wood/bad characters.
- Really strong in centre midfield which wins/loses you football matches.
- Managed to reinforce the wings which surprisingly, had become threadbare.

Negatives:

- Losing our three best players (expected).
- Pretty much all of our wingers play their best stuff off the left - Koleosho, Anthony, Sarmiento, Trésor (eek).
- Bit light at centre forward but Flemming can play there as well as 10 (such an important signing).
- Still a bit weak at fullback.

Questions:
- Who's playing off the right?
- Lots of our midfielders I'd say are more of the box to box / '8' types rather than sitting midfielder / '6' types and I believe more suited for a 4-3-3 than Parker's preferred 4-2-3-1.

Looking at our squad to a man I wouldn't have any from Blackburn anyway, that's for damn sure.

UTC!

[Murger]

Allelulah.

[Stonehouse]

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[ArmchairDetective]

He's here.

[LaLigaClaret]

We don't know the attitude or mentality of those players who thought they might be going and it will also take time to meld the squad into being at its best so we need to be a little wary as to whether we are going to be still in the game or not. Clearly things are better tonight than they looked like they were going to be. There are concerns about whether our striker situation is good enough and questions will need to be asked as to the financial position at the club as it looks like we were not really making big bids for anyone. Things will even better when some of our long term injured make their return. We have signed some decent players but would have liked another striker but at least the flood has been quitened down, well at least for now.

[SirBob]

Burnley official just tweeted a video of the helicopter landing

They definitely read this board and know 1500 clarets were tracking that flight

[boatshed bill]

This has put the icing on the cake for me. brilliant window beyond my expectations.

[claretlegend]

Brilliant end to the window. I can't lie... I loved the whole helicopter tracking fun tonight! The squad looks strong again and we've kept some good players and added some experienced championship grit. A great mood booster before tomorrow's game. Well done Pace and co.