If we wanted to guarantee making money on him we'd sign a pre-contract in January, sign him next summer, then flog him for whatever.
But I think you're right, looks more like a financial investment.
So strange.
So he isn't the fourth CB as he won't be here until January.
If we stay up this year we're surely going to be looking at better players than this. And White will be a year older.
Very odd.
Given the suggestion is Burn will go on back on loan for the first half of the season, why not loan White to a Champ team until January, then get him involved in the first team set-up for the remainder of the season in preparation for next season. Obviously he wouldn't feature on match days much...