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Boss ready to welcome new signing after seeing Clarets secure first point

2021-08-29T17:10:08.691Z

DYCHE WANTS CORNET TO ENJOY TURF MOOR TIME

Boss ready to welcome new signing after seeing Clarets secure first point

2021-08-29T17:10:08.691Z

Boss ready to welcome new signing after seeing Clarets secure first point

Boss Sean Dyche is looking forward to the arrival of new boy Maxwel Cornet after the Clarets secured a deal for the Ivory Coast international.

Cornet has joined the Clarets on a five-year deal from French top-flight outfit Lyon.

His stay at Turf Moor will begin early next month following the international break with Dyche pleased to have a further addition to his squad in the shape of the 24-year-old attack-minded wideman.

“The owners worked very hard on the Cornet deal. It was a tricky deal but they got their in the end,” said the Clarets’ boss.

“We look forward to him coming into the building and getting used to what we do and hopefully affecting what we do.

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“We want him to come and enjoy his football with us and hopefully push us as well.

“We want him to settle in and get used to the area and get used to life on and off the pitch and we’ll see what he can bring to us.”

The signing of Cornet follows the arrivals of defender Nathan Collins, goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and winger Aaron Lennon during the summer transfer business.

And the Clarets will be working hard up to Tuesday night’s transfer deadline to try and further increase their playing options.

“The next ones – we’ll see. There are a couple of maybes so we’ll see how that pans out,” added Dyche.

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Cornet – who has Champions League pedigree on his CV from an impressive spell with Lyon – will be joining a Burnley squad with their first Premier League point on the board following Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Leeds United.

Chris Wood’s first goal of the campaign against his former club put Burnley within a few minutes of their opening league win.

And Dyche felt it was coming before former Turf Moor loanee Patrick Bamford was able to celebrate his England call-up with a late leveller for the visitors after Leeds benefitted from a couple of ricochets in the penalty area and a tumble from Clarets' defender Charlie Taylor.

“Today was a pretty strong performance,” Dyche said.

“I think they’re an awkward side to play against and I think we dealt with them pretty well overall.

“I thought tactically we did well. We got our noses in front which I thought at the time was about right and then they nick a goal out of nothing really.

Striker pleased with performance but frustrated not to bag the winner with landmark goal

“We scored a good goal for different reasons – reacting well and keeping it alive for the second and third phase.

“We then got a little bit on the back foot but that can happen. They do tend to throw caution to the wind, we know that, and I thought we were going to see the game through because they weren’t really creating a lot and they get a goal out of nothing.

“It was a really unfortunate goal. I don’t like to excuse the goals we concede. I always think you can stop them but today was a really unfortunate one.

“I think that was a bit harsh on us. I thought we had done enough.

“The overall performance was at least decent and there’s more to come.”