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And you have.

Who is the "we' that Andy is writing on behalf of?

What I didn't know until this morning is this is the second time that Stephens had, in his mind at least,an opportunity to play in the Premier League: 771250516294676481 "Sky Sports understands Aston Villa have launched a bid to sign Charlton Athletic midfielder Dale Stephens. Villa boss...

The club have been pretty open in the past that when a player wants to leave, it becomes a matter of negotiating the best possible deal for the Albion and not standing in their way. It would be somewhat strange if that didn't take place now.

Nah. He was clearly unhappy anyway, the transfer request makes no difference.

I have no inside knowledge but I don't subscribe to this view. I can't believe that neither the club nor his agent hadn't let the club know they'd quite like to head off to pastures new/greener/richer/Match-of-the-Day-er and gave the club the opportunity to do what they felt was the right...

It has been suggested to me on a couple of occasions, yes. It may be true, it may not. I quite like the story anyway!

Or, as rumoured at the time, with the deal done with Fulham, home-boy Lewis realised he'd have to be out of bed an hour or so earlier every morning to get to training and he didn't really fancy that. So he negotiated a decent pay rise to stay put, whilst still far below what Fulham were going to...

Sorry, I agree that the most likely source of the story is Barber -> Naylor. Beyond that, I have no idea.

I would agree with this.

Exactly right. Dyche wants a player and his board then go off and try to do a deal for what they believe is the right price for Burnley. I'll add that the Albion board have a lot of time and respect for those running Burnley whereas there is little love, to pick a club at random, for...