Player Analysis: Maxwel Cornet

When Alan Pace completed his takeover of Burnley, he promised to adopt a “unique” approach to running the club. Eleven months on, it’s evident that we should take the 53-year-old at his word.

"We are not going to do stupid stuff,” the former banker said in January. “We may say silly things that people take issue with but we are going to act differently and we are going to show that in the things we do."

In the short- to medium-term, the Clarets' change of tact is centred in its recruitment department.  After all, the quickest way to effect change at a football club is by altering the players at a manager’s disposal. And a sure-fire method of mixing things up in Lancashire was by signing a bona fide Ivorian international with Champions League pedigree.

You guessed it; ‘Maxwel Cornet isn’t a typical Burnley signing.’ But what kind of player is a typical Burnley signing these days?