That is not going to happen though and Stan has said today that Thornton is not a player he is interested in and he will not be joining the Clarets. I don’t think the message can be any clearer than that.
The player who had a loan spell at Blackpool before Christmas is not in the running for a first team place at Sunderland despite the Mackems having fourteen players currently unavailable through injury. But wherever his next game is it is not going to be in a Burnley shirt.