January Transfer Window Talk

[The Bedlington Terrier]

500 posts and we are still waiting, but so are Spurs and Palace fans, so we are not alone!

[oldcolner]

Re McKenna
McInnes said: “It’s not an official approach. We’ve had a conversation with Swansea and they asked about Scott’s availability.

“I don’t expect them to make an offer. If they do then it’s not something we’d be encouraging, and that was the kind of gist of the conversation.

“I’m not saying he’s not for sale, but any offer for McKenna will need to be way over the top, whether that’s this window, next window, whatever.Swansea have just sold a centre-half for £18-20million and, for me, certainly the boy that has just gone, McKenna has the potential to be even better.”

McInnes also said he thinks McKenna will “bypass the Championship” as he is “too good not be playing in the Premier League in the future”, and that the 21-year-old is currently “Scotland’s best centre-half”.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

If that is so, the Dons had best take a cheque back north and leave the boy here!

[oldcolner]

I don’t remember him from the first game. - will watch a replay of the game.

Sean been talking saying the club has scouts here but The gap is too wide to the PL saying Andy Robertson came from nowhere - if only he read Clarets mad A few years ago!
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/...break-through/

Anyway in the Telegraph we’re back into action - though if Albion aren’t selling it won’t do much good.

Burnley have resumed talks with West Bromwich Albion over a potential £18 million deal for Jay Rodriguez and are set to make another offer for their former striker in the next 48 hours. But West Brom – who were relegated from the Premier League last season – are adamant Rodriguez will not be sold in this window and have already rejected a joint £25 million bid from Burnley for Rodriguez and Dawson.

Albion are also demanding £15 million for winger Matt Phillips, who has also been on Burnley’s radar and that of Championship side Middlesbrough. Dyche is also on the lookout for a goalkeeper.

Sean obviously frustrated.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...er-sean-dyche/

The BBC takes that up
Burnley manager Sean Dyche says the club must spend in the transfer market just to "keep up" with other Premier League sides.

He suggested that the club needed to show more financial ambition.

"The challenge is opening the club's mind enough keep up. The market will outrun you at some point," he said.

"Stretch and not break, that's the idea. It's not easy.

"We have a business model, but it makes it very tough. The chairman wants to back the club but can only back it to a certain level unless it rips up the whole structure of the club.

"I understand it. But my football head says 'give me the money and I'll go and spend it'."

[oldcolner]

Given Sean’s keenness to build Barnfield I wonder why he doesn’t hint we are trying to grow our own as that is also part of the business model and the one we have succeeded with buying youngsters and bringing them on.
It’s the one we can afford at least with failures being low risk.

[whittyclaretandblue]

500 posts and we are still waiting, but so are Spurs and Palace fans, so we are not alone!

We might not be alone but they have bigger squads to start with

[oldcolner]

500 posts and we are still waiting, but so are Spurs and Palace fans, so we are not alone!

Palace seem to have broken their duck today - see alto on completed transfer thread

[The Bedlington Terrier]

A sense of perspective perhaps..?

https://footballeconomyv2.blogspot.c...25442103383188

[ClaretinBudapest]

We might not be alone but they have bigger squads to start with

Bigger and better.

[Supersub6]

Bigger and better.

Yet we still took points off them, funny old game is football.