Edgar, Stock, Treacy and Liversedge to leave the Clarets

Last updated : 06 May 2014 By Tony Scholes

It was all quite confusing but there are suggestions that Treacy might be back at Burnley next season after being offered the option of a trial in pre-season, but the club reported that all four will go.

Meanwhile Michael Duff, Danny Lafferty and Junior Stanislas are all to be offered new deals whilst right back Luke O'Neill has an option in his contract that will see him remain with Burnley for another season.

Edgar was the second longest serving player at the club after Duff. He was one of the signings in the summer of 2009 as we prepared for our first season in the Premier League. He was out of contract at Newcastle but we had to pay a fee for him due to him being just 22 at the time of his signing.

He didn't feature much in the first team during his first two seasons but established himself as one of the two first choice central defenders during Eddie Howe's period as manager, and it was during this time he was rewarded with a new deal having originally signed until the end of the 2011/12 season.

This season has seen him start just five times in the league, and on all five occasions it has been as a replacement for Dean Marney. He'd arrived at Burnley as a central defender but in a recent match day programme interview had said he now considered himself to be a midfielder.

His last start was in the 1-1 draw at Watford and there was to be just one more substitute appearance when he came on during stoppage time in the 1-0 win at Blackpool on Good Friday.

He ended his time at Burnley having played 99 league games, of which 74 were starts, and 114 games in total. He scored four goals, two in the 2011/12 season as we turned round the game at Hull in November, and two in the next season at Bolton and at home to Cardiff.

Stock has featured even less. He was Howe's last permanent signing for Burnley on the eve of the 2012/13 season, for a fee of around £100,000, but he then struggled to get a game until Sean Dyche came in and, for a time, employed a system with three central midfielders.

This last season, when he has been troubled with a back injury, gave Stock just two league starts and like Edgar they were as a stand in for Marney. He made 34 league appearances for Burnley (20 starts) and a further eight cup appearances. He didn't score any goals in those games.

Treacy was a summer 2011 signing but it's hardly been three outstanding years. Often the off field speculation about him has dominated over his football and that's led to him never being a regular first team player.

It was well documented that he didn't see eye to eye with Howe and he ended his first season on loan with Sheffield Wednesday. He was brought back into the squad under Dyche but has only occasionally shown his best form although it does look as though the manager thinks there is more to come to suggest the pre-season trial.

For now though, Treacy's Burnley career is at an end. It's a three year career that has seen him make 66 league appearances (of which just 29 were starts) and a further 9 cup starts. He scored five goals for us including, and coincidentally his first was against Dyche's Watford and his last against Howe's Bournemouth.

The last player set to leave is goalkeeper Liversedge who agreed a one year deal last summer from Whitby.

It was a deal that was set up some time previous to that when he had an excellent game in a behind closed doors game against Sunderland at the end of the 2011/12 season, but his season at Burnley, where he was officially a member of the development squad, saw him make the first team match day squad just twice when he stepped onto the bench for the Capital One Cup game against Preston and then for the league game at Middlesbrough.

There is no news on Chris Baird, with the club strangely tweeting that he's returned to his parent club, whilst Michael Kightly will return to Stoke at the end of his loan although I believe a deal to bring him to Burnley permanently looks likely.

Edgar's departure leaves Duff as the only player who was at Burnley at the start of the last Premier League season and that means Kevin Long, signed in January 2010, is now the second longest serving player.