Burnley FC - This is our Turf

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Player of the Year - Dede
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Young Player of the Year - Gareth Bale
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Manager of the Year - Nigel Clough
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Golden Glove Award - Savid Stockdale
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Top Goal Scorer - Danny Welbeck
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Team of the Year
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First I would like to say I'm chuffed to bits that Will Hughes got 3rd place in the Young Player of the Year award. He's been outstanding all season and we would never have achieved a 12th place in the league with out him. I'm very confident that next season he can go on to win this award.

Onto the awards themselves I was shocked to see David Stockdale get the Golden Glove Award but to be fair he only conceded 42 goals in 38 appearances, which is highly impressive especially with a team that's just been promoted.

Nigel Clough getting Manager of the Year was well deserved as he guided Norwich to a 7th place finish - not bad for a team tipped for relegation at the start of the season.

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I'm delighted to announce that two of my Burnley players have today made their full debuts for England, starting in a 2-0 victory against Croatia.

Jay Spearing played 80 minutes of the game and came away with a respectable 7.1 rating whiles Will Hughes played the entire match, also achieving a 7.1 rating.

I only signed them last season – Jay Spearing for a mere 1.8 million as he was deemed surplus by Liverpool (their loss!) and Will Hughes for 6 million from Championship club Derby, it's already looking like it could be the best money I ever spend at Burnley.

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Tom Ince
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Tom Ince is a player I've been after since I first took over at Burnley, but due to financial reasons it's never been possible to even consider making a bid for him. But because of our Premier League status and a decent 12th place finish last season I made it our number one priority to sign him, and we quickly agreed a 7.5 million deal with Blackpool to bring him to the club.

Nathan Redmond
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Nathan Redmond is a player I’ve admired for along time, and like Tom Ince it’s only now I’ve been able to seriously consider it. We paid 9 million for him, which is a little more than I would have liked but I know he will be worth it in the long run.

Marcos Alonso
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Marcos Alonso comes to us on a free transfer for Bolton, and will slot straight into the left back position. In my time at Burnley I’ve never been really settled on a first choice left back, but with Marcos I think we have a quality player who will hold down the position for many years to come.

Kolo Toure
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If I’m being honest, the centre back position didn’t really need strengthening as we already have 4 quality centre backs at the club, but snapping up Kolo Toure was an offer I couldn’t refuse, especially since it was a free transfer. If I’d have tried to make this signing two years ago people would have laughed at me, but it just goes to show how far we’ve come as a club we when can sign players of Kolo’s calibre.

Iago Falque
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I had Iago at the club all last season on loan and although he wasn’t always first choice he proved to me when he was playing what a talented individual he was. As soon as Tottenham but him for sale we put in an offer, and for 1.5 million we have a bargain.

Emmanuel Frimpong
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Emmanuel comes to us on a season long loan from Arsenal, with the idea in mind that he will be first choice cover for Chris McCann & Jay Spearing but if he takes his chances there’s no reason why he can’t cement a place in the first team.

Dante Pesoli
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Some might say 4 million is a lot to spend on a 17-year-old youngster who has yet to play for the first team, but I can assure you this kid is going to be worth 10 times that one day. We’ve been scouting him for some time now and I firmly believe he could be our number one keeper within the next two seasons.

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I really can’t believe it. I really, really can’t believe it! My star, 9 million signing Nathan Redmond injured whilst playing for England Under 21’s (not even the full team!)

I’m absolutely gutted for him. He was just starting to pick up form as well, scoring and getting Man of the Match in our recent game against Fulham. Two months is a hell of a long time to be out but at least he should be back in time for the busy Christmas period. I just hope this injury doesn’t leave any long-term damage as he has such a bright future ahead of him.

Get well soon Nathan.