Fee Set for Eckersley

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Burnley will pay Manchester United a fee of £500,000 plus add-ons for defender Richard Eckersley - decided by a Football Association tribunal.

Eckersley moved to Turf Moor last summer after rejecting a new contact at Old Trafford in favour of a four-year deal with the Clarets.

The two teams failed to reach an agreement on the value of the player - with Manchester United hoping for over £1 million and Burnley suggesting a lower figure.

"The outcome is satisfactory," Burnley chief executive Paul Fletcher told the club's official website.

Source: skysports.com
"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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