Maybe Stephens put in the transfer request to try and get Burnley to up their offer or see if Hull or another TINPOT team could be tempted to ? His agent should have told him to put the transfer request in at the end of the season so everyone had time to do a deal not 12 hours before the window...
His agent should have told Burnley or whoever make a proper offer in line with what other teams are paying or go away , I'm sure Bloom would have sold at £10million ish
Both are going down, so he will be back in the Championship whatever he does. All about the wages, whoever offers the most will get him, I think Burnley will offer another few quid maybe £8mill and he will end up there