Burnley boss Owen Coyle knows his team are favourites for a quick return to the Championship but the Clarets will not abandon their footballing principles.

"We hope we don’t get the same start (to the season) because we lost 4-1 on the opening day and then 3-0 the following week," Coyle told The Lancashire Telegraph. "But we’ll try to remain true to our principles, we’ll try to get the ball down and play, and play in the right way.

"When it comes about there’s no doubt it’s going to be difficult but it’s a challenge we’ll relish.

"I think we showed over the season that we love being the underdogs. Every game we enter next season, we’ll be the underdog for it, home and away."

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Burnley are set to swoop for Everton fullback Lars Jacobsen.

The Sun says the Dane, 29, can sign on a free after seeing out his one-year deal at Everton.

We`re not sure if he`s the sort of striker we`d contemplate chasing after but the name of Mark Antoine-Fortune remains fairly prominent amongst those providing the transfer gossip this morning.

According to the Daily Star and the Daily Express, Fulham and Hull have merged as the most likely destinations for the striker who was on loan at West Bromwich Albion last season.

With the Midlands club being relegated it`s not sure if they intend to pursue their option to sign the forward, on a permanent basis, from AS Nancy.

The tabloids are adamant that his value is something in the region of £3 million which, in our opinion, seems a little steep for somebody who only scored five times, in nineteen appearances, for West Brom last season.

His record for AS Nancy is hardly impressive either with the striker having scored only ten goals in fifty three appearances.

Matters are further complicated due to the fact that West Brom have recently parted company with their manager with Tony Mowbary having agreed to join Glasgow Celtic.

We`ll keep you advised of any further developments.

Fulham want Middlesbrough's Gary O'Neil but must match Gareth Southgate's £4million valuation to sign the former Portsmouth midfielder.

O'Neil, 26, has been repeatedly linked with a move back to Pompey but Fulham, who had a bid rejected in January, are the first club to make firm contact this summer.

WOW! Shocker with the Burnley club news, they doin great.

Hull City Football Club have reportedly met the asking price for Marlon Harewood.

The powerful 29-year-old has fallen well down the pecking order at Aston Villa, and Martin O’Neill is prepared to let him leave this summer provided a £2million asking price is met.

And reports suggest the Tigers are willing to pay such a price for the former West Ham United ace, who they would ideally like to pair up with Manchester United’s Fraizer Campbell next season.

Harewood’s arrival would likely see the departure of Gabon hitman Daniel Cousin, who admits he would be interested in a lucrative move to the UAE.

Haha, Fulham are silly.

The Sun reports that Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas is close to a move to Villa Park. Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill needs to replace Gareth Barry and Jenas could fit the bill perfectly.

Inter manager Jose Mourinho has also been showing an interest in Jenas. A move to Inter could be a more risky affair with a harder fight for places in the team.

Jenas has earlier played for Newcastle and Nottingham Forest and has 20 full caps for England.

Fek! hull are mad! Truth.

Any Hull news?

Aston Villa in new £6m bid to tempt Middlesbrough defender
June - 13 - 2009

Aston Villa boss Martin O’Neill is still looking around for a suitable replacement for Martin Laursen at the heart of the Villa defence, and he is pretty keen on Middlesbrough’s David Wheater.

Gareth Southgate was hoping to unload many of the top earners at Boro, but with Stewart Downing suffering from a long term injury, he will not get his easy £12m that he expected, so he may have to consider letting Wheater go, despite his protestations that he is a vital part of his team.

O’Neill will go as high as £6m and offer Marlon Harewood as a sweetener to tempt Boro to sell the 22 year-old, and hopefully Wheater will help secure the defensive leaks that have occurred since Laursen got injured.

Curtis Davies was expected to take a more leading role, but he admitted that he just wasn’t up to the job. He said: “When Martin came out of the team people were looking at me a bit more to step up,”

“I guess I’m not the Martin Laursen character people have been looking for.

“It’s hard task to replace someone like Martin.”

Wow! Tottenham are thinking big.

Hull news is hard to come by am searching now

Aston Villa are doing the right thing.

Thats true about Hull.

There's no doubt about it. In the end Hull City were lucky at the end of the season that Newcastle and Middlesbrough played so poorly. With the same team we certainly won't stay up stay up next season.

However there have been some stand out performances this season, players who have given their all for the club and deserve a first team place next season.
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Hate the England kit.

12 MIL for wheater is a bit expensive

Aint seen it

new one?

Aint seen it

new one?

Hull have a good chance staying up.

Hull will have to battle like spartan warriors

You have seen it, its the current kit.. Was new few months back.