Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[Toronto Villa]

If we get him for £10m it’s really net £5m or so as we will sell Kalinic. So all in all solid business.

[AsTallAsLions]

Gregg Evans reporting that Tom Heaton move is “close”

I think that is a very good acquisition

Likewise.

Won't please the Jackobites though.

[ldavfc4eva]

Good experienced keeper with 5 years left at the top end, as TV says if we pay 10m and get 5m for Kalinic it’s a bargain.

We still have one too many GK’s though if we sign him, so can see Nyland going too once he is back to full fitness.

Would love a defensive midfielder in next so the spine of the team is almost completed.

Cahill for centre back alongside Mings would be my vote, or Axel for another season if Cahills wages are too high.

[SoccerHQ]

Delighted we're getting Heaton in. Our best signing of the summer imo and for actually a reasonable fee.

For anyone with any doubts look at Burnley's defensive stats for first half of the season (Joe Hart in goal) and from December 28th when Heaton was re-instated and kept a clean sheet in a 2-0 win over West Ham.

[Percy McCarthy]

Delighted we're getting Heaton in. Our best signing of the summer imo and for actually a reasonable fee.

For anyone with any doubts look at Burnley's defensive stats for first half of the season (Joe Hart in goal) and from December 28th when Heaton was re-instated and kept a clean sheet in a 2-0 win over West Ham.

Could someone post them?

[Toronto Villa]

My only concern and maybe there is a really good reason for this but across all these years why has he not played more games, why has he bounced around a lot and why is it that he lost his place to Joe Hart?

[Risso]

Delighted we're getting Heaton in. Our best signing of the summer imo and for actually a reasonable fee.

For anyone with any doubts look at Burnley's defensive stats for first half of the season (Joe Hart in goal) and from December 28th when Heaton was re-instated and kept a clean sheet in a 2-0 win over West Ham.

Could someone post them?

[AsTallAsLions]

My only concern and maybe there is a really good reason for this but across all these years why has he not played more games, why has he bounced around a lot and why is it that he lost his place to Joe Hart?

don't think he lost his place, wasn't he injured?

[Villan For Life]

My only concern and maybe there is a really good reason for this but across all these years why has he not played more games, why has he bounced around a lot and why is it that he lost his place to Joe Hart?

I think Hart would have been considered the senior player given his international caps. Ultimately Heaton reclaimed the jersey anyway.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Burnley fans all seem to love him, only bad thing is that he has had injuries.

[Damo70]

Bale is the kind of player I always used to sign in Championship Manager when I first got a club promoted to the Premier League.  World famous, highly skilled, previously transferred for massive money.   But also past his best, on huge wages, unmotivated and very difficult to move on.  A marquee signing in the worst sense.

Championship manager 2000/2001. Seventeen year old Richard Paquette from QPR for peanuts would score you forty goals a season every year for about fifteen seasons.

[frank black]

Gregg Evans reliability?

[SoccerHQ]

My only concern and maybe there is a really good reason for this but across all these years why has he not played more games, why has he bounced around a lot and why is it that he lost his place to Joe Hart?

don't think he lost his place, wasn't he injured?

Yep, did his shoulder against Crystal Palace in September 2017, he played their first few games. Nick Pope then came in from nowhere and was one of the keepers of the season. Think Heaton was out of pretty much all of that season anyway.

He then picked up another injury last summer and Burnley had to sign Anders Lindegaard to pretty much play the first few europa qualifiers as Nick Pope was injured aswell. Then they signed Joe Hart and he started the season as number one but his level got really bad up to the xmas games, his last appearence was a 5-1 home defeat to Everton on Boxing day.

[Hookeysmith]

Axel signing a new deal with the filth - I remember Delph signing one only to ensure We got a fee for him.

Heaton - on the occasions I saw him on MOTD he had some storming games so not unhappy with this and Steer (who is still young) as #2

[PeterWithesShin]

My only concern and maybe there is a really good reason for this but across all these years why has he not played more games, why has he bounced around a lot and why is it that he lost his place to Joe Hart?

He hasn't bounced around much, he was sent out on loan a lot while at Manure and has had 3 clubs since leaving them in 2010. He was injured for most of 17/18 and last season him and Pope were out injured which is why they brought in Hart.

One thing that would concern me is he seems to pick up quite a few injuries for a keeper.