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  1. Follow Wednesday's Premier League games livepublished at 18:35 31 January 2024

    Manchester City v Burnley, Tottenham v Brentford, Liverpool v Chelsea

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

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  2. 'Blustering, self-indulgent financial mismanagement by Premier League owners'published at 16:57 31 January 2024

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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.

  3. What would be your dream deadline day?published at 11:46 31 January 2024

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    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

  4. One in, one out?published at 11:43 31 January 2024

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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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  5. Man City v Burnley: Sutton's predictionspublished at 11:23 31 January 2024

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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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  6. Man City v Burnley: Pick of the statspublished at 18:39 30 January 2024

    • 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.

  7. 'Is it worth one final throw of the dice?'published at 17:01 30 January 2024

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    This January transfer window is troubling me.

    Why? It is hardly news that a side struggling in the relegation zone would want to bolster the squad and bring in cover where it is needed, and Burnley are no exception to that. So I should be excited, no?

    The thing that is troubling me is whether it is worth it.

    We spent more £100m in the summer (depending on which reports you read and whether you believe them), with 15 new faces coming into Turf Moor. But from the beginning of the season the squad just did not look strong enough or... ready.

    The areas needed to strengthen were clear to most Burnley fans - centre-half, central midfield and at centre-forward. All with Premier League experience. We can now move a left-back to the top of that list, following the long-term injury to Charlie Taylor. There are plenty of rumours doing the rounds about targets, prospects and loan deals, but they all seem to be "highly rated" European youngsters full of promise.

    We have enough of those players in our squad, sufficient for the three-year plan we have put into place to "go for it" at the time we should have been promoted.

    Instead, we need strength, physicality and experience if we have any hope of surviving. We need the next Ben Mee.

    And so there is my worry - is it worth it? Are we already doomed this season so would just be throwing good money after bad? Should we save our money and invest in the summer for the Championship? Or is it worth one final throw of the dice?

    Don't get me wrong - I love the optimism our chairman is projecting - he is convinced we can and will stay up - but it looks ominous to me.

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  8. Kompany on injuries, transfer 'moving pieces' and 'special' Man City gamepublished at 12:01 30 January 2024

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    Burnley manager Vincent Kompany has been speaking to the media before Wednesday's trip to face Manchester City in the Premier League.

    Here are the key lines from his news conference:

    • Kompany said "there will be some positive news" on possible returns for injured players Charlie Taylor, Jordan Beyer, Sander Berge, Aaron Ramsey and Hannes Delcroix.

    • However, the Belgian confirmed Nathan Redmond will miss the rest of the season after a "freak accident" in training.

    • On the 19-day break between their last game and the visit to Etihad Stadium: "Massive gap, I've never experienced it before. I wanted to treat it as a positive. The players had the chance to reset a little bit and, I hope, recharge what they need to. Hopefully they'll benefit from this period."

    • On Wednesday's opponents: "They're a great side. They've got top players, a top manager. The combination of that makes them very difficult to play against. There's not many times you get the opportunity to play against what is currently the best team in the world."

    • On the mentality needed to face City: "You can't start the game defeated, even though the rest of the world will - rightly so - have an idea of the outcome. We're going there with every desire to get the most out of this game. Whatever they bring, we have to make a game out of it."

    • Kompany said it will "always be a special game" facing the side he captained to so many trophies, but added: "I'm focused on my job. My job takes too much of my days to treat it with every desire to get a result for Burnley."

    • On possible activity before the end of the transfer window: "There's moving pieces. The recruitment team is putting in a shift to try to see if we can make the team stronger. There's still a few calls coming in for some of our players as well. We'll see."

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  9. 'A great opportunity to move the club forward' - Pace on Dundee dealpublished at 18:41 26 January 2024

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    Burnley chairman Alan Pace says the club's new talent share deal with Dundee will help the Clarets "move forward" on and off the pitch.

    "It's been in the pipeline for a little while," Pace told BBC Radio Lancashire. "We've been looking for opportunities as a club to expand our network of relationships with other clubs, to share knowledge and develop players more robustly.

    "We came to the conclusion that it was a great opportunity to help the club move forward."

    He explained that Dundee made sense as the club to choose for a variety of reasons.

    "A big factor was location as it's not that far by train if our players and staff are [travelling] back and forth," he said.

    "Also, we love Scotland. We love the football that's being played up there and think there's more to come from that.

    "We're always on the look out for things that will help the club, but it has to be real, organic, thoughtful and authentic. It's not something we just do for commercial reasons or to be like everyone else."

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  10. Lack of transfer business 'all comes down to Financial Fair Play'published at 08:53 26 January 2024

    Michael Brown, BBC Sport pundit

    We've seen fewer deals at this stage of a January window than normal.

    Simply put, clubs are having to work with what they’ve got. The financial regularities mean nobody wants to get any points deducted, so everybody must be sailing very close, unless there’s a bit of trading to do.

    Generally you see one go and then things move around, but it’s heavily looking like just loan deals.

    If you ask the bulk of managers if they would bring reinforcements in then they would. I don’t think there’s many who would say they wouldn’t take at least another player. It’s in everyone’s nature to do so. They may say they are not bothered out loud, but do you really believe it?

    What can be done? Teams have players missing across the board and it’s a high number of injuries for this time of the season. But it all comes down to the Financial Fair Play regulations.

    Would Nottingham Forest go and try and do a bit? Probably. We know Gary O’Neil at Wolves would love to do stuff, but he’s governed by what he can move around in order to bring in.

    Then you have the bottom three. They have to strengthen wherever possible but their hands are also tied. It’s tough what they can get over the line.

    Michael Brown was speaking to BBC Sport's Katie Stafford

  11. 'A clear foul on Trafford - who is making the decisions?'published at 12:46 16 January 2024

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    Question: if Tony Harrington disallows Luton’s equaliser in real time, does VAR overrule him and still give the goal? We indeed hope so to maintain confidence in VAR - but the problem is that no-one has that confidence any more.

    How many times have we seen goalkeepers protected in that position? It is a running joke that you cannot breathe on the goalkeeper without it being a foul.

    Are we now saying that goalkeepers in fact are too over-protected? I think I would agree with that and would like to see that change. But the problem is this; in order to protect the integrity of the competition you cannot just change your mind halfway through a season. By current standards, that was a clear foul on James Trafford.

    In the face of mounting criticism over VAR, the Premier League has reverted to the default “clear and obvious error” justification for any decision - a joke in itself given how long that very principle was simply ignored.

    So what I am interested in is who exactly is calling the shots here.

    The video assistant referee chose not to overturn the referee’s decision on Friday night, as they believed - wrongly in my opinion - that there was no clear and obvious error.

    But, what if Harrington didn’t actually make an on-field decision? How many times have we seen referees and their assistants take a pass, safe in the knowledge that VAR will pick it up and make the decision for them.

    If the referee leaves it to VAR, but VAR sticks with the referee, then is anyone actually making a decision?

    The whole thing is a mess and fans are rapidly falling out of love with Premier League football.

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  12. Your thoughts on Burnley v Luton Townpublished at 08:12 15 January 2024

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    We asked you for your thoughts on Friday's match between Burnley and Luton Town.

    Here are some of your comments:

    Burnley fans

    Richard: A brilliant performance by Burnley in a tough fixture against a very good Luton team. What an appalling decision for the Luton goal. Should we now be looking for a secondary VAR review to review VAR's many mistakes? Laughable.

    Dave: Yes it was a poor decision by the ref/VAR, but it was also a poor decision by James Trafford to come for that ball with so much in front of him. Too many players seem to have accepted that we are already down. Either that or they don’t care. A poor performance overall, but credit to Luton, they played well, with Barkley bossing the midfield.

    Paul: The draw felt like a defeat. We were poor tonight. That equaliser would have been disallowed in any other game. It feels like there are two sets of rules -one set for us and another for every other team. That said, we probably didn't deserve the win.

    Colin: I'm not convinced that James Trafford has the height or physique to command the penalty area at set pieces.

    Luton fans

    Kevin: The Town dominated the game for long periods and overall were the better team. Fully deserved a draw and possibly more. Vincent Kompany was probably more upset with his own team than the VAR referral. Burnley were very limited despite massive spending on players.

    Phillipe: For the away side, they had far more possession and were more of a threat. A draw in the end was a fair result but Luton were marginally the better team. Barkley a class above the rest.

    Dave: Putting up a real fight, true underdog fighting spirit! Keep this up and we will survive.

    Nigel: Luton's approach play and pressing was excellent. Their wide players were always available as an excellent outlet for the ball. I also feel that sometimes they could improve in the final third. The final ball occasionally is not as good as they would like. Barkley though is really coming alive, which is a massive plus.

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