Champion League
Burnley Could Make £2m ‘Focal Point’ Their Next Wood

Burnley outscored each different staff en path to ending as winners of the Championship this previous season, however Vincent Kompany is able to add to his attacking choices forward of embarking on his first season as a Premier League supervisor.
Queens Park Rangers striker Lyndon Dykes is being eyed up by the Clarets, in line with the Daily Mail, and he might convey one thing a bit of completely different to Turf Moor ought to he arrive.
Who’s Burnley goal Lyndon Dykes?
Dykes spent the primary seven years of his profession in his native Australia and Scotland – whom he now represents at worldwide degree – earlier than being given a break in English soccer with QPR in August 2020.
The 27-year-old completed his first season on the membership as prime scorer with 12 objectives and an extra 5 assists, and has scored eight goals in every of the previous two Championship campaigns, the newest of which was disrupted by a worrying health scare in January.
After coming back from a two-month lay-off, Dykes made up for misplaced time with a robust finish to the 2022/23 marketing campaign, scoring twice in QPR’s closing six matches and being named Man of the Match by WhoScored in half of these video games.
Dykes additionally has a good eight objectives in 28 caps for Scotland, however there may be extra to his sport than merely discovering the online, as mirrored within the 4.8 aerial duels gained per sport within the Championship final season – probably the most of any QPR participant.
Do Burnley want a Chris Wooden 2.0?
Alan Hutton beforehand described Dykes as a “focal point” that one in all his earlier golf equipment, Rangers, might have carried out with at a time they had been being linked with the striker in 2020.
Given his measurement, with QPR’s official web site placing him down as 6 foot 2, there are apparent comparisons to be made with former Burnley participant Wooden, who himself measures in at 6 foot 3.
A career-wide comparability of the 2 gamers solely highlights their similarities when it comes to enjoying model. Sofascore provides Wooden a rating of 62 for his attacking play in comparison with 61 for Dykes, whereas the pair are each rated at 44 for creativity, as per Sofascore.
Nevertheless, it’s the bodily facet of the sport the place they’re actually alike, with the New Zealand worldwide rating within the top 9% of strikers in Europe’s prime 5 leagues for aerials gained per 90. Comparatively, Dykes ranks among the many best 8% within the subsequent eight greatest divisions for a similar metric.
Wooden reached double figures for objectives in all 4 full Premier League seasons with Burnley, earlier than incomes a transfer to Newcastle United in January 2022, so he undoubtedly has extra goalscoring high quality than unproven Dykes.
But, for a participant who’s rated at a small fee of just £2m, in line with Soccer Transfers, it’s clear to see why Burnley are displaying a reported curiosity within the Aussie-born ahead.
For whereas Kompany has reworked Burnley’s model of play in his first 12 months in cost, bringing on Dykes from the bench might act as an ideal back-up plan subsequent season.