Richard Eckersley joined Burnley at the start of the season, following in the footsteps of another United youth product, Chris Eages. He made just four appearances for United and left with the hope of more first team action.
However, it hasn’t entirely gone to plan so far, with the 20-year-old finding himself sent off on his Burnley debut in September and has only played twice since, both in cup games.
His brother, Adam, left a year earlier for Port Vale on a free after playing just once for the first team but we were hoping to get a fee in the region of £1 million for Richard.
“The outcome is satisfactory,” said Paul Fletcher. “When the smallest club in the league tries to take on the biggest club in the league you always wonder how it’s going to end up. But we thank the tribunal for taking a common sense approach to this. We have always valued the player around the £300,000 mark until he starts establishing himself in the first-team. When Manchester United were asking a million-plus we thought we had to stand up and be counted and that’s what we did. The tribunal was represented by administrators of the Premier League who have hopefully seen the common sense of the way Burnley tries to run its business with sensible numbers, rather than allowing ourselves to get into financial difficulties further down the line.”
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Totally disagree with the outcome. When you think about it clubs get our players for reasonable fees (not counting ronaldo of course). When we go for players its classed as tapping up and poaching. Thats whats happened here except the reverse, so he hasn’t played a league game it wouldn’t surprise me if that was a cost cutting measure on Burnleys part. I doubt Burnleys league position would be any worse if he had played a few games.
he left to get first team football didnt he ? , he must be living the dream now , haha
To be fair, we may have been expecting alot just because he plays for us, he’ll probably amount to nothing but a Championship player and someone who’d leave our club on a free.
Bit pathetic that we’re trying to squeeze every penny out of fucking Burnley for some no-mark we obviously didn’t want anyway.
Notorious red devil, you do not know what you are talking about.He was out of contract which means he was entitled to speak to any club he wanted without permission.He hasnt been getting in the team due to the fact that Burnleys player of the season so far Mears plays in the same position.
Meh, not too bothered
A little more respect for the lad would not go amiss.