News about Jack Cork

Burnley have confirmed the release of two players following the expiration of their contracts this summer. The Clarets will be playing their football in the Championship after being relegated from the Premier League, finishing 19th.

Burnley has bought 13 players this summer, and all of the Clarets starters yesterday, bar one, were signed by the Belgian in the last 14 months, with veteran quartet Josh Brownhill, Jack Cork, Jay Rodriguez, and Johann Berg Gudmundsson as substitutes. Naturally, there was a lack of cohesion, but Kompany insists that his squad will get used to the required level in the Premier League as quickly as possible, despite the fact that Burnley have lost their first two games, both at Turf Moor and elsewhere.

After losing 6-0 to thrashing Championship winners Burnley, Manchester City has secured their place in the FA Cup semi-finals. Erling Haaland raised his season-trick count to 42, with Julian Alvarez also scoring a brace, while replacement Cole Palmer stayed in on the action.

QPR were left wondering by a contentious penalty decision, just as in England's humiliating World Cup exit. QPR's new manager, Peter Bankes, was sworn out by Burnley goalkeeper Arijanet Muric 20 seconds into the game, so confusing was the call that denied England captain Harry Kane a penalty in the first half against France. A free-kick who even captain Jack Cork appeared to agree should not have been given led to Burnley's first goal from Johann Gudmundsson, adding to the salt in QPR wounds.

IAN HERBERT AT TURF MOOR: They can't quite get out of Turf Moor's narrow streets. The Royal Dyche pub is also on sale, with the sign above depicting the man in question in breastplate and monarchical posture as he looks across the middle distance. There is still a stein of Royal Dyche lager on sale inside, with 5p from every pint going to charity. And though he's still has the words 'Sean Dyche's claret and blue army' at the bar, Maxwell Cornet scarf pinned up on the door, he's now in West Ham. Nonetheless, the Dychian creed was emblazoned on the programme's huts outside: "Legs, hearts, and minds." It was one thing to defenestrate the man, but it was another to replace him with something diametrically different. Vincent Kompany, his successor, has stifled Route One and replaced it with what he knows: a scenic, patient, and fast route to the goal.

IAN HERBERT AT TURF MOOR: For Vincent Kompany, it was somewhere between brave and foolish to stake his professional image on Burnley this summer. To help settle a £60 million loan that fell on their owners as a result of relegation from the Premier League, the club was releasing all its best players and ending up spending £40 million less than they did in the window. Kompany's win last night, which saw the team win a fourth game, was a testament to his ability to completely rebuild and introduce a dedication to passing, which, with all respect to Sean Dyche, has been missing in these parts. Manuel Benson, a Dutch Chelsea loanee, and Ian Maatsen joined Royal Antwerp for £3.6 million to join Burnley's new Belgian enclave, showing that the new boss's ability to find class on no budget. Route one has departed, and it has been followed by a more direct, often over-elaborate route, with wingers wrangling the flanks and passing sequences, which on this occasion were of the highest order.