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Burnley are looking to sign right-back Lorenz Assignon from Rennes.

The Clarets are leaving it late and have less than 12 hours to complete a deal for the 23-year-old Frenchman.

Assignon had been linked with a move to Galatasaray but it seems like the Turkish giants will sign Serge Aurier from Nottingham Forest instead.

It may allow Championship side Leeds United to make a move for Burnley full-back Connor Roberts.

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Burnley spent big in the summer, close to £100m on new signings, but the season has not gone to plan, entrenched in the relegation zone and staring at an immediate return to the Championship.

Midfielder Manuel Benson was one of the star players in last season's title winning team but has barely had a look-in this year and was linked with a move to Southampton and Hull earlier this month.

The Belgian will be frustrated at the lack of opportunities and was left out of the squad for Wednesday's defeat at Manchester City but BBC Sport understands Benson is likely to stay at Turf Moor beyond the end of the transfer window.

Anass Zaroury is another who is unhappy at the lack of first-team chances on offer under Vincent Kompany this term but is likely to stay too after the Clarets rejected a loan offer from Ligue 1 side Lille.

Gary Lineker introduces highlights and analysis from the eight Premier League matches played over Tueday and Wednesday.

If you missed Match of the Day, you can catch up on the action on BBC iPlayer.

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• Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal

• Aston Villa 1-3 Newcastle

• Liverpool 4-1 Chelsea

• Manchester City 3-1 Burnley

Burnley boss Vincent Kompany is hoping to add to his squad on deadline day, while Manuel Benson could be heading out of Turf Moor.

Montpellier central defender Maxime Esteve is thought to be top of the Clarets' list of targets.

Speaking after Wednesday's 3-1 defeat at Manchester City, Kompany said he expected to do some business.

"I hope something will happen," he said. "You can make miracle transfers in January but they’re very difficult to find."

Benson was left out of the Burnley squad for the trip to City and although Southampton and Hull City have been linked with the 26-year-old winger, who has started only two games this season, nothing has so far materialised.

"There were little bits of rumours of him going away on loan," said Kompany. "Of course, it is normal that he wants to play and we will see how it resolves itself."

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On Wednesday, we asked you what Burnley's ideal final day of business in the January transfer window would look like.

Here is a selection of your responses:

Jack: Dream transfer deadline day would be Ben Mee, James Tarkowski, Nick Pope and Danny Ings all back at the club.

Steven: Ideal would be us signing Erling Haaland but realistically signing a left-back if Charlie Taylor is injured for the long term. Looks like Maxime Esteve is almost done. That would be a decent window with David Datro Fofana in as well.

Jonah: Deadline-day squad bolstering would be very useful for this squad -personally I think a new centre back as Dara O'Shea has looked tired at times. Realistically, if we can snag a left back that’ll be a decent window.

Rich: What we need is the same as what we've needed since winning the league at Ewood Park - a new left-back, a strong defensive midfielder and if finance permits a more senior commanding centre-half. I would love a Ben Mee-type right now to organise us. We have lost 18 points from winning positions. If we had Ben in the back four, we'd be mid-table for sure.

Whether it turns out to be a day of high drama or a pretty quiet one for your club, you can rarely take your eye off transfer deadline day.

Are you hoping for a rush of late deals or expecting a relaxed one?

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We asked you for your thoughts on Wednesday's Premier League match between Manchester City and Burnley.

Here are some of your comments:

City fans

Pedro: Great to see all the squad fit and putting in really good solid performances. Good for squad rotation, as it will be needed in the run-in and hopefully won’t affect the quality of performance. Nunes and Gvardiol are fitting in much better now.

Sam: Did what we needed to do and was great to see Nunes play well. Tougher matches ahead and hopefully some more clean sheets too, only five for the league season is very poor by City's standards, especially when three of them came against newly promoted sides. Onwards we go!

U: Routine win, game was over early. Great to see Haaland back but he did look rusty - though that is to be expected. Gvardiol at left-back is a problem and he got beaten far too easily for Burnley’s goal. Need to see more from the likes of him and Grealish. Nunes had a solid game which is good to see.

Burnley fans

Barry: Burnley are, unfortunately, light years away from Premier League standard at the moment. As a Burnley supporter, I admire Vincent Kompany - but it baffles me why he continues to play Vitinho. In my opinion, he is clearly not up to it and he is a player other teams focus on as one of our main weaknesses.

Chris: Three of our next five games are Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal. We could be down, more or less, by the end of February. I don't think anything we do in this window is going to rescue us.

Jacko: Doing a grand job, Vinny lad. Keep up the great work. You may even get the odd shot on target sometime soon.

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• Manchester City have won their past 13 games against Burnley by an aggregate scoreline of 46-2.

• City forward Julian Alvarez became the 10th player to score two or more goals in a Premier League match on his birthday, and the youngest at 24.

• Kevin de Bruyne's assist for Alvarez's second goal was his 104th in the Premier League, overtaking Wayne Rooney (103) to become the outright third highest assist provider in Premier League history behind only Ryan Giggs (162) and Cesc Fabregas (111).

• Despite making just six appearances in all competitions this season, De Bruyne has been directly involved in five goals (one goal, four assists). Since the start of last season, he’s provided 32 assists, eight more than any other Premier League player.

• Ameen Al Dakhil became the first Burnley player to score a Premier League goal against Manchester City since Robbie Brady in December 2019.

• City’s third goal was the 500th Burnley have conceded in the Premier League. Only Watford (297 games), Norwich (311) and West Bromwich Albion (312) have conceded 500 goals in the competition in fewer matches than the Clarets' 326.

When does the transfer window close?

The transfer window will close at 23:00 GMT on Thursday for the Premier League and English Football League, while in Scotland, the window will shut 30 minutes later at 23:30.

Across Europe, the Bundesliga window will close at 17:00, Serie A at 19:00, Ligue 1 at 22:00 and La Liga at 23:00 - but the Women's Super League transfer window already closed on Wednesday night.

The transfer window for the Saudi Pro League, where a number of high-profile Premier League players moved in the summer, closed on 30 January.

Can a Premier League player signed on deadline day play this weekend?

Under league rules, new signings are eligible for the next Premier League game if the club submit the required documents by midday on the last working day before that match.

Where can I see all the confirmed transfer deals on deadline day?

You can find all the deals completed on transfer deadline day within our dedicated confirmed transfers page.

What is the story so far?

Only 15 players have been signed by Premier League clubs in January, with 10 permanent transfers, five loan deals and disclosed fees of about £50m.

It is a far cry from the past three transfer windows - January 2023 and the summers of 2022 and 2023 - which each set Premier League spending records.

At the same point last year, on the eve of deadline day, there had been 38 transfers worth about £550m - 10 times this year's amount.

How can I follow transfer deadline day on the BBC?

From 07:00 on Thursday, we will have a page dedicated to all the latest transfer news, reaction and analysis. You cannot miss it as it will be the first thing you see on our football website.

Your Premier League club's page will have all the latest transfers for your team in one place.

You will also find regular updates on BBC Radio 5 Live and breaking news across BBC Sport's social media channels, including X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

There will also be a special edition of The Football News Show on BBC iPlayer and the Red Button from 22:00 until 23:30.

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Vincent Kompany will never tire of coming to the Etihad Stadium.

It is a ground where he enjoyed so many momentous moments. A statue stands in his honour outside.

But this time, he will be glad to get out. Beaten, yes. But that was expected.

The key thing is Burnley didn't suffer horrible damage to their goal difference, which would have been the case if they had suffered the five or six goal mauling that looked likely when City led 2-0 midway through the first half.

Burnley played to a structure, were organised and didn't capitulate. These are all traits that will serve them well.

Clearly, they remain in massive trouble and could do with a P&S favour of two at some point.

But nothing that happened at the Etihad Stadium made the situation worse. And that is something to be grateful for at least.

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Burnley manager Vincent Kompany to BBC Match of the Day: "Our team just keeps going and that will never go. But we're playing against a top team. We have to look at the easy goals we conceded but also the chances we created. The priority now is to build that momentum towards Fulham.

"We played one of the best teams in the world. In these games it's about being able to build chances and momentum. I felt if we had the last pass coming off, if we put it in the back of the net it would help of course.

"We had our moments. I can dissect it as much as I want but we have to move on to Fulham now.

"I thought we looked after the ball ever so well. Every time we had the ball we looked threatening. When we defended, we have to defend better.

"It's Burnley Football Club. It's 101 points in the Championship last year. It's six years survival in the Premier League with definitely the lowest budget for all those years. We'll find a way, we keep grafting and going. There's enough drive in the club to keep pushing ourselves. We're definitely not going to give anything up."

Julian Alvarez scored two first-half goals as Manchester City enjoyed a comfortable Premier League victory over struggling Burnley.

On his 24th birthday, Alvarez headed home from Matheus Nunes' dinked cross for his first and pounced on a Kevin de Bruyne through-ball for his second.

Rodri scored City's third goal a minute into the second half, latching on to Phil Foden's cut-back and slotting into the bottom corner.

Ameen Al Dakhil got a late consolation for Burnley in added time.

Pep Guardiola's side moved up to second in the table but remain five points behind league leaders Liverpool, while Burnley are in 19th place.

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There are three games being played in the Premier League on Wednesday and we will bring you every moment.

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Former Chelsea and Everton winger Pat Nevin, writing for the BBC Football Extra newsletter:

This feels like it has been the quietest Premier League transfer window ever. There is still a day to go and, in the past, huge deals have been done right up to the deadline, but it will not suddenly become a free-for-all this time. The question is: why?

Are all the clubs and their managers deeply satisfied with their well-balanced and over-performing squads? I hardly think so. Have all the coaches suddenly decided that they really want to work more with the youngsters coming through, rather than get a ready-made striker in the morning? Probably not.

Have the big clubs suddenly got sensible and concluded that it is silly spending hundreds of millions of pounds on players, destroying any possible company profits and yet still having no certainty of success at the end of it? This thought might have crossed a few minds.

There is always the possibility that some clubs got the fright of their lives after Everton’s 10-point deduction. Have they finally realised that some of the very complicated and fancy financial and accountancy sleights of hand might not bamboozle the Premier League after all?

Some clubs have spent huge sums and are now quietly trying to sell players to make the books balance.

Does it not smack of just the vaguest possibility of a chance that there might have just been a bit of blustering, self-indulgent financial mismanagement by the owners of some of the top clubs? Surely not - these Masters of the Universe always know what they are doing and understand finance so much better than the rest of us.

I remember listening to a hugely successful banker once braying on to me about how they knew best. I think he was from an organisation called Lehman Brothers.

As deadline day looms, we want to know what your ideal final day of transfer business would look like for Burnley.

Do the Clarets need to make any signings? If so, who should they look to bring in? And does anyone need to be offloaded?

Let us know your views here

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Burnley spent close to £100m in the summer but have so far only added David Datro Fofana on loan from Chelsea in January.

Now French centre-back Maxime Esteve looks like being next through the door at Turf Moor with reports of a medical scheduled to take place on Wednesday.

When asked about the 21-year-old on Tuesday, manager Vincent Kompany said: "All I can say is that he's not our player at the moment. I think we're past the point where I can deny there has been interest, right? But the point is he's not our player."

Meanwhile, BBC Sport understands the Clarets have rejected a loan move from Lille for winger Anass Zaroury.

The Moroccan was one of the star performers in Burnley's promotion last season but is understood to be frustrated at the lack of game time this season.

One player who looks like staying at the club is Manuel Benson - the Belgian was linked with a move to the Championship this month, with Southampton and Hull both interested, but a deal did not materialise.

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Chris Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League matches again this season, against a variety of guests.

For this week's midweek games, he takes on Chelsea fan Matthew Vaughn, director of new spy film Argylle.

Sutton's prediction: 3-0

Former Manchester City defender Vincent Kompany will get a great reception when he brings his Burnley side back to Etihad Stadium, but I don't fancy his chances of getting anything else.

It's a big night at the top of the table, with Liverpool playing Chelsea later on Wednesday, and I am not expecting City to drop any points. I like the way Burnley play football - but they can be a little naive as well.

It won't be a pummelling but City should win comfortably, and the hardest thing for their title rivals to consider is that Kevin de Bruyne is getting fitter and Erling Haaland will be back in action.

City have got such strength in depth and we have reached the stage of the season where they usually put their foot down. It would be a major shock if they slipped up at home to the Clarets.

Vaughn's prediction: City have got something to prove and we could see a big scoreline - I think they are just going to go for it. 4-0

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• Manchester City have won 16 of their past 17 meetings with Burnley (D1), winning the past 12 in a row by an aggregate score of 43-1.

• Since the start of 2017-18, no side has won more Premier League away games against the reigning champions than the Clarets (two), with victories at Chelsea (August 2017) and Liverpool (January 2021) in that time.

• City have spent the longest time winning (850 minutes) and the least amount of time losing (188 minutes) in the Premier League this season. They’ve trailed for just three minutes at home this term, with Tottenham the only side to lead against them at Etihad Stadium so far.

• Burnley have dropped 18 points from winning positions in the Premier League this season – only in 2016-17 (19) have they lost more in a campaign in the competition.

• Erling Haaland has scored five goals in just two appearances for Manchester City against Burnley, netting a hat-trick in the FA Cup last season and twice in the opening league game this term. He averages a goal every 29 minutes against the Clarets so far.