Summer 2024 Transfer Window Discussion - Rumours and Links welcome

[BigChaCha]

We have have 2 wingers who’s favoured position is right wing, benson and Redmond. Redmond is injured and bensons injury record isn’t great. I’m just saying I can see why we might be in for a right winger

To be honest, I am not even sure if Redmond's favoured position is right-wing!... We have seen him more on the left in the small amount of times he's played for us and every time I saw him play for Southampton back in the day, he played more as a 10... He certainly seemed to play just behind the forward/s for Southampton in a free role in the many times he ripped us apart anyway!

[boyyanno]

If we sign more wingers without addressing other areas of the squad then we've learnt the square root of feck all.

[TsarBomba]

Michael Cooper to Sheff Utd from Plymouth- £2M.

[burnley007]

Michael Cooper to Sheff Utd from Plymouth- £2M.

Excellent deal for them.
Did we pay a fee for Greene?

[Mattster]

Excellent deal for them.
Did we pay a fee for Greene?

I'd seen it reported there was no fee for Green but there was a large sell on (around the 50% mark IIRC).

[Vegas Claret]

Looks like Sheff Utd are getting Jesurun Rak-Sakyi too from Palace, Wilder putting together a very good side

[Jakubs Tash]

Twine being on the bench last night was really down to being home grown more than anything. McNally being on the bench was due to our current injuries at centre half.

However, I think it was also more than a ‘nod’ towards Bristol City to say these lads are ours and they’re involved - put up or shut up.

[nyclaret]

Berge to United looks like it’s hinging on Ugarte to United. Romano has just tweeted saying that if an agreement can’t be reached with PSG, they will move to cheaper target.

[dcunningham27]

Brentford closing in on a deal for dara now apparently

[FeedTheArf]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/20 ... a-burnley/

Still no mention of what the potential fee might be, only that we're expected to make a profit. I should hope so!!

[jedi_master]

That's a proper shitter after last night, Mike McGrath too so it'll be true.

[FeedTheArf]

Assuming there isn't a relegation clause fee in the contract, and I can't imagine there would be given we picked him up from the Championship to start with, what fee would you be happy with realistically? £12m?

If we were still in the prem I'd be wanting £20m+ but we're not

[wilks_bfc]

This is the problem with having the window close after the season starts - you get the performance the builds up hope and then players get snapped up

Would be disappointing to lose him.
He did start last season shakey but he was one of the top performers especially after Christmas

[123EasyasBFC]

Makes his performance last night even better, ultra professional and someone who clearly has improved following a tough season, he will 100% start over Collins in my eyes

[claretskeith]

Assuming there isn't a relegation clause fee in the contract, and I can't imagine there would be given we picked him up from the Championship to start with, what fee would you be happy with realistically?

£20-25m.

[Row Z]

Assuming there isn't a relegation clause fee in the contract, and I can't imagine there would be given we picked him up from the Championship to start with, what fee would you be happy with realistically? £12m?

If we were still in the prem I'd be wanting £20m+ but we're not

We weren’t in the prem when we sold Collins for £20m plus were we.

[Hapag Lloyd]

Jacob Greaves went to Ipswich for a reported £18m (£15m+£3m add ons) we should be looking to at least match that.

[jedi_master]

Anything less than £20m would be really poor.

[ksrclaret]

I’ll be gutted if we lose O’Shea.

[ArmchairDetective]

I'd hope for something similar to what we sold Collins for. But how much did we sign O'Shea for, £8m? Selling him for double what we paid for him 12 months ago wouldn't be bad business.

[Vegas Claret]

I’ll be gutted if we lose O’Shea.

unless he has asked for the move I would be furious

[claretskeith]

I'd hope for something similar to what we sold Collins for. But how much did we sign O'Shea for, £8m? Selling him for double what we paid for him 12 months ago wouldn't be bad business.

Better business is promotion and the £200+ million. We need to be very careful not to sell all of our best players.

[FeedTheArf]

Better business is promotion and the £200+ million. We need to be very careful not to sell all of our best players.

The problem is nobody is coming in for the players we're happy to get rid of and we need to balance the books.

[winsomeyen]

I'd hope for something similar to what we sold Collins for. But how much did we sign O'Shea for, £8m? Selling him for double what we paid for him 12 months ago wouldn't be bad business.

Woudnt be bad business my arse, we are a football club not a bank

[jedi_master]

unless he has asked for the move I would be furious

Has Pace managed to keep a single player that we would ordinarily like to keep who has been linked with a move away? The weight on the clubs neck from his loans means he will always be tempted by offers. Shocking though when he has surely seen the impact O’Shea has on the side literally last night. The player certainly doesn’t seem to be pushing for it on that evidence.

[FeedTheArf]

We weren’t in the prem when we sold Collins for £20m plus were we.

We weren't, but Collins was 4 years younger and we'd signed him for £12m, not the £7m we signed O'Shea for.

[FeedTheArf]

Woudnt be bad business my arse, we are a football club not a bank

We stopped being a football club when the leveraged buyout happened.

Now it's all about managing the debt and interest payments.

[claretonthecoast1882]

We stopped being a football club when the leveraged buyout happened.

Now it's all about managing the debt and interest payments.

Yeah you are right, we aren't a football club

[AfloatinClaret]

Woudnt be bad business my arse, we are a football club not a bank

But down here in the real world, football clubs have to balance their books or they will soon find that what's left of them now belong to a bank.

[winsomeyen]

We stopped being a football club when the leveraged buyout happened.

Now it's all about managing the debt and interest payments.

As quoted above " better business would be the £200 mill prem money "

[Quicknick]

Just because Brentford are 'closing in', doesn't mean they'll get him. Could just be 'paper talk'.

[ArmchairDetective]

How is selling a player for twice what you paid for him bad business? I said 'not bad', not ideal super duper fantastic business.

I even said in the post that ideally we'd want more

[BurnleyFC]

It’d be disappointing to lose O’Shea now, but if there’s one area of the pitch we’re well stocked it’s at centre half.

Beyer, Al-Dakhil and Ekdal are all terrific options to have.

[123EasyasBFC]

Just because Brentford are 'closing in', doesn't mean they'll get him. Could just be 'paper talk'.

When McGrath and Percy are reporting on it, it’s usually on the money

[ksrclaret]

As others have said, at this point, the money we’ll get from going back up and then save by already having a genuine PL centre half pairing will dwarf the fee Brentford will pay us now.

This is a real test of our ambition.

[Burnley1989]

Has Pace managed to keep a single player that we would ordinarily like to keep who has been linked with a move away? The weight on the clubs neck from his loans means he will always be tempted by offers. Shocking though when he has surely seen the impact O’Shea has on the side literally last night. The player certainly doesn’t seem to be pushing for it on that evidence.

The last board did exactly the same, it will be the player that wants the move, he would likely double or even treble his money, harsh to put that on Pace

[daveisaclaret]

The club has been pretty clear about wanting to sell players for profit. People won't enjoy it but most of the time that will mean selling our best players. It's also beneficial to our reputation with players we will want to sign in the future if they can see players from Burnley can earn big money moves if we fall out of the PL.

[123EasyasBFC]

Tbf before the documentary and last nights game if someone said Brentford would pay 15m for O’Shea, a good number of fans would of sold for that

[RVclaret]

I’d imagine Parker will go for Nat Phillips as a direct replacement. Like for like and homegrown quota. While the link with Bashir Humpreys would be a replacement for McNally on the bench and also homegrown.

[Steddyman]

Assuming there isn't a relegation clause fee in the contract, and I can't imagine there would be given we picked him up from the Championship to start with, what fee would you be happy with realistically? £12m?

If we were still in the prem I'd be wanting £20m+ but we're not

A fair price is £17m. Anything less and we should be walking away.

[claretonthecoast1882]

Has Pace managed to keep a single player that we would ordinarily like to keep who has been linked with a move away? The weight on the clubs neck from his loans means he will always be tempted by offers. Shocking though when he has surely seen the impact O’Shea has on the side literally last night. The player certainly doesn’t seem to be pushing for it on that evidence.

Every player in the Championship wants to play in the Prem. If we were in the Prem and wanted a championship centre half do you think he would want to join us ?

It is only a few months since there was post after post on here telling us how crap O'Shea is

[Vegas Claret]

The problem is nobody is coming in for the players we're happy to get rid of and we need to balance the books.

doesn't matter, just write a nice 'oops sorry' letter and take the 3 point deduction and keep our best players.

[jojomk1]

Re O'Shea, If we can get the other CB's fit then don't think we could really argue with a price of circa £20-25m plus add ons and sell on clause

Re Central Midfield, Given Chelsea's recent spending spree a loan offer for Chukwuemeka could be a really good signing for us

[Tall Paul]

doesn't matter, just write a nice 'oops sorry' letter and take the 3 point deduction and keep our best players.

That isn't why the books need balancing.

[TsarBomba]

As others have said, at this point, the money we’ll get from going back up and then save by already having a genuine PL centre half pairing will dwarf the fee Brentford will pay us now.

This is a real test of our ambition.

Flipping O’Shea for double what we paid is what we’re all about. It’s our raison d’etre.

It wouldn’t be a lack of ambition to sell O’Shea, however much of a loss he would be, because we have a conveyor belt set up to replace him.

[blake's wand]

Whilst player power clearly a very real thing - credit to Leeds for doing a brilliant job of keeping their main players last season after they went down. The finances must have a part to play here.

[jedi_master]

Flipping O’Shea for double what we paid is what we’re all about. It’s our raison d’etre.

It wouldn’t be a lack of ambition to sell O’Shea, however much of a loss he would be, because we have a conveyor belt set up to replace him.

Would generally agree and it might look a lot more palatable if we didn’t have long term injuries to the three players who’d be in the frame to replace I suppose.

[Murger]

Be disappointing to lose Dara. Even though we are well stocked at CB, I wouldn’t call any of them leaders.

[ksrclaret]

Flipping O’Shea for double what we paid is what we’re all about. It’s our raison d’etre.

It wouldn’t be a lack of ambition to sell O’Shea, however much of a loss he would be, because we have a conveyor belt set up to replace him.

I’m not sure on that conveyor belt to replace him.

He’s one of our few genuine leaders, he’s a PL quality defender so would save us money if we do go back up, and he’s good for several goals a season. He’s one of three players we must keep or we seriously weaken ourselves for going back up.

[mybloodisclaret]

Until the other high choice centre backs are fit, I wouldn't even consider it unless it is crazy money. Crazy being 23 mill +