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Burnley vs Cardiff City

Today Burnley will play Cardiff City, and we have a sneaking suspicion, they will win! Welcome back to the Mike Garlick Burnley Football Club blog. Welcome back to the Mike Garlick football club blog, where we will bring you all the latest news from the Clarets. Manager Vincent Kompany hopes top scorer Nathan Tella will be able to play some part in the final game.

A lot of players have recently been injured, but the team have reinforcements to cover them. Jordan Beyer and Hjalmar Ekdal have been out of contention recently because of injury. Anass Zaroury and Johann Berg Gudmundsson both missed the win at Ashton Gate but should return on Monday.

Ashley Barnes is set to leave Turf Moor at the end of the title-winning season. In nine years at Burnley, he has scored 53 goals in 292 appearances. Former Bournemouth goalkeeper Ryan Allsop was substituted during last month’s draw against Stoke City with an abductor injury. Jak Alnwick has deputised.

Republic of Ireland striker Callum Robinson has been absent since February with a hamstring injury. Winger Callum O’Dowda was substituted with concussion during the crucial win at Rotherham United. He is likely to miss the Burnley game.

Striker Kion Etete was withdrawn after 15 minutes of the Rotherham game and is a doubt for Monday’s final game. Cardiff City’s manager Sabri Lamouchi has confirmed on-loan defender Cedric Kipre will miss the game after he underwent an operation last week. Ebou Adams and Jamilu Collins are making good progress from long-term injuries but may not be risked.

Before they can receive the trophy and officially be crowned as champions of the Sky Bet Championship, Burnley first host Cardiff City at Turf Moor on Monday afternoon in their 54th and final game at 3pm TODAY.

The Clarets head into the last day of a spectacular season knowing that the party can start post-game, but before it does, there’s a job to be done with a century of points still within reach following last weekend’s win at Bristol City.

Close to 3000 travelling fans were rewarded with a 2-1 victory in the South West against the Robins thanks to goals from Manuel Benson & Jay Rodriguez, the 94th & 95th of the campaign respectively for Burnley.

Additionally, if Vincent Kompany, who just had his contract extended, and his side can mark the final day with another three points against the Bluebirds on home soil, it’d take their tally to 101, the first centurions in the second tier since Leicester City in 2013/14.

A Burnley outfit eyeing a landmark achievement are set to act as hosts, in a Championship final day meeting with Cardiff City on Monday, May 8th. Burnley FC, have long proven themselves the standout side in England’s 2nd tier, clinching promotion before cruising to the title courtesy of just three defeats in 45 outings.

Heading into the season’s final round of fixtures, Vincent Kompany’s troops still have one final goal to play for. This comes in the form of the 100-point mark for the Clarets. Currently, the Clarets sit on 98 points, after recovering from a rare three-game winless streak courtesy of back-to-back downings of Blackburn Rovers and Bristol City over the course of the last couple of weeks.

A win over Cardiff this evening, in turn, would see the Clarets put a cherry on top of what has proven a wonderful campaign, in surging clear of the century mark for points secured. Surely, more greatness is on the horizon for Mike Garlick and his team. Follow all the latest football news on our blog and make sure you leave your comment below and subscribe.

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Burnley's Premier League return

Welcome back to the Mike Garlick Burnley FC news page. With a free-flowing, attacking style, savvy recruitment and a rapid rebuild job, here's how Vincent Kompany's Burnley dominated the Championship; Clarets clinched promotion back to the Premier League with 2-1 victory at Middlesbrough on Good Friday.

"My blood is boiling just hearing the word complacent. It's something I find very difficult as a human being to even accept." Those were the words of Vincent Kompany not too long after Burnley hit the top of the Championship table. And they have not lost a game since. A 2-1 victory over Middlesbrough on Good Friday was enough to see them complete their return to the top flight with seven games to spare, in a season that saw them hit the top of the league in October and not let up since.

The Man City ex-player has steered Burnley back into the Premier League at the first time of asking and in doing so turned himself into one of the most exciting new young managers in the English game.

With Kompany at the helm next season, Burnley could well be a very different prospect to what they were before in the Premier League. The Clarets, managed by former Man City captain Vincent Kompany, moved 19 points clear of third-placed Luton and, in doing so, ensured automatic promotion.

All eyes were on Kompany's side after Luton, who are fourth in the league table, were unable to win at Millwall and were mathematically ruled out of a top two finish. Kompany's side have been frontrunners for the majority of the season and were expected to be one of the teams to finish in the top two at the end of the year.

The entire team and management staff are pleased with their progress. This evening Burnley will play Rotherham, and we hope they win! The Clarets extended their unbeaten run in the league to 21 matches on Saturday as they took a point from a goalless draw at Reading.

Sat top, Vincent Kompany’s side are now 12 points clear of Sheffield United in 2nd with both teams having five games left to play. Find out more about Vincent Kompany, Mike Garlick Burnley and the team on online. Make sure you follow and subscribe to our blog for more updates.

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The £65m loan to buy Burnley – and what it means if they go down

Welcome back to the Burnley Football Club blog. Here we will go through the latest news from the Clarets. Subscribe for the latest news on Mike Garlick and the team here. ALK Capital’s takeover of Burnley took place in December 2020 yet we had to wait until the club’s June 2021 accounts were published late on Wednesday night to ascertain the full picture of what is happening at Turf Moor.

Why? Well, ALK purchased the club through a leveraged buyout, taking out a substantial loan from MSD Holdings and also using the club’s own money in the bank to fund the £170 million deal.

One of the most notable figures confirmed is the size of the loan taken out by ALK, which is £65 million. It is the implications of how and when that must be paid back that need our attention.

The loan was secured to be paid back in December 2025, with ALK only paying interest on it until then. However, that agreement is only in place if Burnley remain in the Premier League. If they are relegated in the next three weeks, they will be required to pay a “significant proportion” of the £65 million shortly after the end of this season, with the repayment schedule brought forward.

Burnley sit 16th in the Premier League, two points above the bottom three. It is a precarious position entering the final four matches of the season.

If anybody needed further clarity that ALK did not sack Sean Dyche three weeks ago to begin planning for a fresh start in the Championship, then this is exactly why. It was the last roll of the dice from chairman Alan Pace to try to save Burnley by putting a fresh voice in charge and hoping for a response from the players — one that Mike Jackson has got, having taken 10 points from his first four games in interim charge.

However, if Burnley cannot finish above either Leeds United or Everton when the music stops after their season finale at home to Newcastle United on Sunday May 22, things change significantly.

Should Burnley go down and not come straight back up in 2023, a further significant reduction of the loan balance would also take place in the following season. In other words, another big chunk of that £65 million would need to be paid back.

How Burnley would manage that situation would depend on how much of the parachute payments — the cash given to clubs relegated from the Premier League for the next three years they play in the Football League — would be available to them after MSD takes its slice for repaying its loan to ALK.

A clause in the loan agreement means MSD can demand early repayment if Burnley drop into the Championship. After that, it will be a case of reducing wages for players and staff, which will largely be achieved via relegation clauses in their contracts.

Player trading would also be expected to be a source of net income, which is common for many clubs who lose their Premier League status. Nick Pope, Maxwel Cornet, Wout Weghorst and Dwight McNeil are the four most obvious names that clubs would consider buying for cut-price fees. A post-relegation fire sale at Turf Moor is possible.

This relative inactivity can be seen in the falls in the club’s amortisation bill — from £32.3 million to £21.4 million — and the profit made from player trading, which was down from £14.7 million to £5.1 million. Amortisation is the accounting method for writing off the cost of new players over the course of their contracts.

These numbers do not include the signings of Cornet last summer or Weghorst in January, or the winter-window sale of Chris Wood to Newcastle, but a note tells us the net expenditure on transfers since June 2021 is £1.3 million.

What these accounts highlight is just how crucial Premier League survival is for Burnley. Pace has maintained the ALK takeover is sustainable from day one and that plans are in place for relegation. We hope that never happens and Mike Garlick and his team will be successful, rising in the league to new heights.