Burnley hailed for £20m Coventry City deal - 'you just can’t turn it down' | OneFootball

Burnley have been adjudged to have made a 'good deal' for the sale of Loum Tchaouna to Coventry City for a fee of around £20 million.

Burnley are returning to the Championship and they will quickly be installed as one of the favourites for the title, despite what has been an awkward start to the summer.

Scott Parker was relieved of his duties as Burnley boss after their relegation from the Premier League was confirmed, with Mike Jackson taking charge on an interim basis.

Despite seemingly getting ahead with that decision, Burnley then took a strangely long amount of time to get their next appointment sorted, with Nicky Hayen now officially being unveiled as the new Clarets manager.

Hayen, who has previously only ever managed in Belgium aside from a stint at Cymru Premier outfit Haverfordwest County in the 2021-22 season, most recently led Genk to an underwhelming seventh placed finish in the Belgian Jupiler Pro League last season, taking charge a couple of weeks after being sacked by Club Brugge in December.

As well as that, Burnley have dealt with the departure of a marquee signing from last summer, Quilindschy Hartman. Hartman has joined Espanyol on loan, a club that was taken over by Burnley owner Alan Pace last summer, with Hartman making some remarks about the deal being organised in the winter and how much better a place to live Barcelona is, in comparison to Burnley, despite still being owned by Burnley.

Loum Tchaouna deal deemed a good one for Burnley

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Over the weekend, it was confirmed that Burnley had sold Loum Tchaouna to Coventry City, newly-promoted to the Premier League, for a fee believed to be in the region of £20 million.

While a promising talent, it isn’t a sale that has worried FLW’s Burnley Fan Pundit Aaron Wright too much, suggesting it to be a good deal for all parties.

Aaron says: “I just think it is a good deal all-round, for Burnley and for Coventry.

“We signed him for £11 million last year and he didn’t show a lot but when he showed his best was when he wasn’t playing under Parker’s management.

“I’m not going to blame Parker for Tchaouna’s own flaws but he did seem to play better and improve a little bit.

“He has an absolute weapon of a shot, as shown against Leeds, and the two other goals he scored last year were decent enough.

“He’s raw, he’s green. It’s a good deal for us. It’s a player that doesn’t want to play Championship football and doesn’t want to be at the club. So, to make an £8 million profit on a player one year on is a good deal for us, you just can’t turn it down.

“Coventry get a player that has played Premier League football and has some attributes that most teams would say are good ones and most fans of a fair opinion would say are good attributes.

“He’s young and he’s moved around a lot in a shot amount of time. Good luck to him; from our point of view, it’s a good amount of money.”

Burnley need a good summer ahead of the Championship

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Under the management of Vincent Kompany in the 2022-23 season, Burnley romped to the Championship title, spending just one season back in the second-tier.

In the 2024-25 season, then under the management of Parker, Burnley accrued 100 points and broke records by conceding just 16 goals in 46 games as they finished as Championship runners-up to Leeds United on goal difference.

There would therefore be an expectation that Burnley will again be among the frontrunners for the title, alongside fellow relegated sides West Ham United and Wolverhampton Wanderers is what is shaping up to be an ultra-competitive division, even by the standards of the Championship.

Kyle Walker has said he will stay at the club and Florentino Luis has completed a permanent move from Benfica with Lluc Castell joining from affiliate club Espanyol but there is a lot of work to be done.

Maxime Esteve is the subject of interest from elsewhere, as is Zian Flemming, and there are a lot of players on the Burnley books that appear on the periphery of things, or at least have been in the past, having been loaned out or just not used, such as Luca Koleosho, Mike Tresor, Jaydon Banel, Andreas Hountondji, Shurandy Sambo and Michael Obafemi.

There is a lot for Nicky Hayen to sift through and his delayed appointment leaves him with less time to do so than would have been ideal but, at least in terms of the sale and the money received for Loum Tchaouna, Burnley are getting some more positive and proactive business done with around a month to go until the EFL campaign gets underway.