Obafemi to go out on loan?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Edit... I have heard Pace has a penchant for using software to scan for available players...
Who's to say he hasn't aquired the software off some shady character with a pencil moustach,zoot suit and fedora,
and the algorithm only selects players not suited to the EPL....

Note....Did I just describe Malcolm Allison then...?

He's using the Post Office software algorithm and we all know how that ends.

[Len Bury]

lol...Yes...Fujitsu...
***situp is the one Pace uses...Sez so on the box....In Crayon...

[sinkov]

Six of those named players were signed under VK's watch. Why sign them if they are not going to feature?

Because we have to run a squad of at least 25 in the PL, which means many players at Burnley, and at every PL club, not featuring. You might as well ask why Pep signed Kalvin Phillips, why Ian Maatsen has never featured for Chelsea, why did Forest take Divock Origi on loan from Milan ?

As for Obafemi, he may be fit in that he's not on the injured list, but he's not match fit or he'd be getting minutes with us. I doubt he's even close to match fit, maybe he never will be, and any club taking him on loan would be taking a huge risk, such a risk that I just cannot imagine any club wanting to take him. I suspect we're lumbered with him.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Because we have to run a squad of at least 25 in the PL, which means many players at Burnley, and at every PL club, not featuring. You might as well ask why Pep signed Kalvin Phillips, why Ian Maatsen has never featured for Chelsea, why did Forest take Divock Origi on loan from Milan ?

As for Obafemi, he may be fit in that he's not on the injured list, but he's not match fit or he'd be getting minutes with us. I doubt he's even close to match fit, maybe he never will be, and any club taking him on loan would be taking a huge risk, such a risk that I just cannot imagine any club wanting to take him. I suspect we're lumbered with him.

We will do a deal on his wages because he needs game time. He will be gone somewhere soon, he's an Eire international FFS!

[sinkov]

We will do a deal on his wages because he needs game time. He will be gone somewhere soon, he's an Eire international FFS!

But how much game time will it take to have him back on the injured list ? If I was looking for a loan player this window I'm sure I could find better bets than Obafemi. One that could actually play a full game for instance, when did Obafemi last do that ? Has he ever done that ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

But how much game time will it take to have him back on the injured list ? If I was looking for a loan player this window I'm sure I could find better bets than Obafemi. One that could actually play a full game for instance, when did Obafemi last do that ? Has he ever done that ?

Calling mein freund! I'm sure he was a regular starter at Swansea?

On the few occasions I have actually seen the lad play he looks a decent footballer but IMHO I don't think he has the necessary credentials for the EPL.

Getting him fully match fit would certainly help.

[army88]

Calling mein freund! I'm sure he was a regular starter at Swansea?

On the few occasions I have actually seen the lad play he looks a decent footballer but IMHO I don't think he has the necessary credentials for the EPL.

Getting him fully match fit would certainly help.

Check out you tube BT on his performances for Southampton in the premiership previously.

[Supersub6]

Calling mein freund! I'm sure he was a regular starter at Swansea?

On the few occasions I have actually seen the lad play he looks a decent footballer but IMHO I don't think he has the necessary credentials for the EPL.

Getting him fully match fit would certainly help.

Well, this does not make good reading at all as far as I am concerned.
He came on as a sub for Southampton in the 82 nd minute against Spurs in January 2018.
Since then in league and cup football but excluding Internationals he has made 107 appearances but started only 47 matches. Of those starts, 33 were for Swansea where he also made 19 sub appearances and scored 14 goals betwween August 2021 and July 2023 when he came to the Clarets. The last time he played a full game was on 29 October 2022 for Swansea at Bristol City.
He has started only one game for the Clarets in the FA Cup against Fleetwood.
He played a total of 280 minutes last season and has made 2 sub appearances this season amounting to 19 minutes.

As far as I can tell he has spent 498 days since December 2018 having treatment for injuries. It seems that 322 of those days relate to hamstring injuries. The other 176 days relate to a knock from December 2020 to May 2021.All this was between Dec 2018 and May 2021.
Nobody can predict injuries and he reamined injury free from May 2021 until his latest one came when on International duty back in June 2023 but that meant he was having treatment, before coming on as a sub in November, for 143 days.

Quite a sad tale really with so little game time in just over 5 years.

[Swissclaret]

We do seem to be specialising in recruiting players with fitness issues - mental and physical.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

We do seem to be specialising in recruiting players with fitness issues - mental and physical.

We are bloody good at it too S_c.