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  • Forward Flemming completes Burnley movepublished at 13:15 20 May

    Zian Flemming celbrating scoring a goal for BurnleyImage source, Rex Features
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    Zian Flemming ed Millwall from Fortuna Sittard in 2022

    Millwall forward Zian Flemming has completed a permanent move to Burnley having spent the season on loan at Turf Moor.

    The Dutchman scored 14 goals in all competitions as the Clarets won promotion from the Championship this season, finishing second behind Leeds United.

    Flemming, 26, ed Burnley on a season-long loan in August and at the time of g made his ambitions clear.

    "I want to be a Premier League player in a Premier League team and with the aims and ambitions that we have here at the club, we can make that possible," he told the club website, external.

    Details of the fee and the duration of Flemming's contract have not been disclosed.

  • Clarets academy achieves Category One statuspublished at 15:33 13 May

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    Progressing into Burnley first team would be 'utopia' for academy players

    Burnley's academy has been awarded Category One status ahead of their return to the Premier League.

    Chris Casper, who was appointed academy manager six months ago and whose own son Charlie is in the academy, says the achievement is a big fillip to the club, shortly after they won promotion under Scott Parker.

    He told BBC Radio Lancashire: "It will open a massive door for the games programme, recruitment of players and extra funding, so it's massively important for the club and testament to the staff and to the ownership who have backed us.

    "Manchester United, Liverpool, Manchester City are all going to rock into town next year. When we were Category One three or four years ago, the atmosphere on a matchday is a different level.

    "The pathway shows what you're trying to achieve and how you're trying to achieve it. It shows productivity, and Burnley's productivity over the last 20 years, with players coming through the academy to play in the first team, hasn't been very good.

    "Scott has been really good with the young players, takes a lot of interest in them, and they train regularly [with the first team], generally on the day before a game so he gets to see them.

    "There's a real desire to produce young players for our first team."