{"id":342840,"date":"2025-12-30T13:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342840\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:11:04","slug":"burnley-set-for-first-piece-of-january-transfer-business-as-medical-booked-in-and-deal-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342840\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnley set for first piece of January transfer business as medical booked in and deal ‘imminent’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Burnley<\/p>\n

(Credit: Imago)<\/p>\n

\"Evan <\/p>\n

Tue 30 December 2025 10:30, UK <\/p>\n

Burnley are on the verge of completing their first piece of business in the January transfer window. <\/p>\n

The Premier League<\/a> strugglers are in desperate need of a strong winter window as they already find themselves six points adrift of safety at the 18-game mark of the campaign. <\/p>\n

Burnley are strong favourites to join Wolves<\/a> in their inevitable relegation, and they are currently without a win in the league since the end of October. <\/p>\n

Scott Parker<\/a> is under pressure to improve results, and he desperately needs reinforcements to his squad in January if that is to become a genuine possibility.<\/p>\n

\"BurnleyCredit: ImagoHannes Delcroix set for medical ahead of Burnley exit<\/p>\n

Football finance expert Dr Dan Plumley<\/a> recently told Football Insider that he expects Burnley to continue to live within their financial means<\/a>, rather than splashing the cash this winter in a frantic bid to improve their fortunes. <\/p>\n

The Lancashire outfit are not one of the Premier League\u2019s big spenders by any means, and mid-season sales were always likely to be necessary in order to fund the required additions. <\/p>\n

The Clarets now appear to be on the verge of sealing their first outgoing of the window, with Hannes Delcroix scheduled to undergo a medical at Lugano later this week, according to Sky Sports<\/a> in Germany.<\/p>\n

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Delcroix spent last season out on loan at Swansea City<\/a> and hasn\u2019t made a single competitive appearance for Burnley so far in 2025-26.<\/p>\n

Negotiations with the Swiss side are understood to be \u201cat an advanced stage,\u201d with an agreement regarding his sale deemed to be \u201cimminent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burnley\u2019s staggering squad size<\/p>\n

Parker is under pressure at Burnley at the moment<\/a>, but he will surely feel hard done by if he is dismissed, given the squad that he has available to him.<\/p>\n

The Clarets have a 34-man senior group, despite only being able to name a squad of 25 for the Premier League, meaning there is effectively still plenty of deadwood contracted at Turf Moor. <\/p>\n

Burnley<\/a> do not have enough quality to survive as things stand, and despite their abundant depth in terms of numbers, several of their players are simply not at Premier League quality. <\/p>\n

They have been linked with some fairly exciting additions in the lead-up to the window, but if they are to bring in new faces, then a fire sale of the fringe players will surely have to follow.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit: Imago) Tue 30 December 2025 10:30, UK Burnley are on the verge of completing their first piece…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19403,218,132943,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-342840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-burnley","tag-football","tag-hannes-delcroix","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}