Vincent Kompany addresses the chances of players leaving Burnley on transfer deadline day
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That’s according to manager Vincent Kompany, who is concentrating on strengthening his squad ahead of the 11pm cut-off point.
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It’s already been a busy window of incomings, with the club signing 11 new players while both Jordan Beyer and Michael Obafemi have seen their loan deals from last season made permanent.
But in terms of outgoings it’s been relatively quiet, other than Matt Lowton and Ashley Barnes leaving at the end of last season and the likes of Bailey Peacock-Farrell, Luke McNally, Scott Twine and Wout Weghorst departing on loan.
“You have to look at our situation from last season. We lost six loan players, so to replace those loan players – whatever the Premier League fee is for a normal player, you see it going through on Sky every day, what is the value of a Premier League player nowadays, especially a starting player – well of those six maybe four or five of them were starting for us last season.
“First we had to spend to replace them to get to the same level as last season and then we had to spend to improve on the squad we had.
“It’s only normal for us we’re still looking to make this squad a Premier League squad.”
In terms of incomings, Kompany – speaking yesterday ahead of Saturday’s Premier League clash against Tottenham – didn’t rule out further signings.
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