Charlie Adam’s role in Dundee and Burnley partnership revealed as chairman Alan Pace pitches transfer vision.

Burnley’s partnership with Dundee, according to Alan Pace, is mutually beneficial and may help them get some of Scotland’s best players.

After sending Dara Costelloe and Owen Dodgson on loan to Dens earlier this week, the Clarets formally established their strategic alliance with the Dark Blues. According to Burnley chairman Pace, his team has lost out on several Scottish transfer targets, but this connection could give them an advantage over their competitors. “We always look at Scotland,” he remarked. We were informed early on that not all footballers fit very well in England, therefore we should give Scotland some serious thought. Recruiting players from Scotland hasn’t gone as well as we’d hoped thus far. It appears that some have been able to move the people we have liked to better places.

With the players we are aiming for, perhaps, we can arrive sooner since we are closer.

A handful have slipped through the cracks, but I’d rather not identify them.

Although Charlie Adam was the one who connected the two clubs, they are both owned by Americans. Before moving to Fleetwood, the former Dundee player, who was loans manager at Burnley, made the connection.

It started when he loaned Marcel Lewis away for this season.

 

Charlie was in charge of our loans, so that’s how the lending side got started, according to Pace. Through it, we were introduced to Dundee. Charlie proposed that we have a meeting with their American owners.

“We had no idea who they were, but we started off together when I got to know John (Nelms).” We had the opportunity to meet and converse with members of the club during our summer loan to Dundee.

We found that the boys spoke and thought a lot like us. We had more talks with each other as a result, and that’s how we ended up here.