The Clarets have made an abysmal start to the Premier League season, and fans are becoming unsettled with the club’s hierarchy after an equally awful summer transfer window.
Dale Stephens arrived from Brighton and Hove Albion while back-up goalkeeper Will Norris arrived at Turf Moor from Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Luke Williamson gives his opinion of how the Burnley transfer window played out.
Stephens signing is nothing more than okay
It is without doubt that Burnley needed to strengthen this summer.
The club were left in a very difficult position when the league restarted in June with injuries leaving The Clarets to name a number of youngsters on their bench.
Dale Stephens could prove to be a good buy, adding depth to the midfield which has largely been Ashley Westwood and Josh Brownhill for some time now.
Jack Cork has been missing through injury all season, so a lot of younger players have been around the first team and adding Stephens will help to guide these players through their development.
But that doesn’t win you games now.
He is a good midfielder, without a doubt, but time is not on his side.
31 years old is past his prime and Stephens will be a back-up midfielder once Cork returns.
One outfield addition to a threadbare squad is not enough and will inevitably come to hurt Burnley somewhere down the line this season.
The board have a lack of desire which is shining through
This makes it clear that the board have little to no desire to progress from simply retaining their Premier League.
The board is showing the club’s supporters that they do not want to set yourself as a sustainable club for the future by investing in good young prospects
But it also gives off a degree of disrespect to Sean Dyche and his squad.
With the current squad they have, when everyone is fit, it is more than capable of staying in the top-flight.
But players and staff don’t just want that, they want to be pushing higher, aiming for the top half where the club found themselves last season.
Players such as Dwight McNeil would relish from the competition of, for example, Harry Wilson who was linked with the club until the very end of the window.
A new striker who would be guaranteed to score goals would have worked wonders for Chris Wood and the other strikers who do not produce enough chances on a weekly basis.
The Clarets have only scored three goals this term, which is only better than Sheffield United and tied with Fulham, the two teams who are beneath them in the standings.
A creative, attacking midfielder would have also helped this to give Dyche and his team the chance to try out a new play style to get more chances.
But the board did not want to fund this, for whatever reason.
Luck will have to be on their side to survive
It is going to be very difficult for this Burnley team to stay up this season.
That is an opinion seemingly shared amongst many Burnley fans on social media as the club have struggled to adapt to injuries to key players.
This is solely down to a small selection of first team players.
It is great to see young members of the squad getting chances, but this isn’t going to win you many football games.
The Clarets fans and squad alike will be praying that no more injuries are suffered, and the squad can progress forward, at least until new arrivals can be purchased in January.
But with the typically busy Christmas schedule, the team will need to be rotated throughout this period.
Burnley fans should expect their side to struggle this season, and a return to the Championship after five seasons away is looking increasingly likely.