Tom and Tendayi are latest in demand

Last updated : 26 November 2015 By Tony Scholes
Tom Heaton to feel glad all over at Palace?

This loan window, and the fact that it will no longer be in place after this season, seems to be passing almost unnoticed as the national media start building up for January and which players will be moving to which Premier League clubs.

Burnley are hoping to continue this season at the top of the Championship, looking for an immediate return to the Premier League. That, I would imagine, would mean we are looking to be active in the January window and by that I don't mean selling players, and yet, already, four of our players are being linked with moves away from Turf Moor.

Michael Keane was the first. He was recently linked with both Everton and Newcastle although since his goalscoring exploits came to an end (he's now failed to score in any of the last twelve games) it all seems to have died down.

A couple of weeks ago we were going to be hit with a Spurs bid for Andre Gray. "He's only just got here," Sean Dyche said when asked about it, joking: "We paid £57 million for him," as the fee we paid Brentford seems to go higher each time some ill informed Sky pundit quotes it.

Just as I thought it was all dying down, two more came yesterday. The first of them I thought was funny. Apparently Crystal Palace boss wants to take Tom Heaton to Selhurst Park as third choice goalkeeper. That, I thought, will do Heaton's England chances a lot of good, sitting around watching Palace play Premier League football and having to listen to that incessant drum banging.

And later yesterday that was all followed with Tendayi Darikwa being mentioned for a possible move to either Leicester or West Brom with the Daily Mirror claiming he'd been compared with Tottenham's Dele Alli.

"Tottenham midfielder Alli, 19, has broken into the England team after being signed for £5m in the summer. That has now opened up the door for other Premier League clubs to raid the Championship and lower divisions to look for the next up and coming player," writes John Cross in the Mirror.

I'm sure Dyche will be asked about it all in today's press conference. I'm equally sure he'll laugh it off, by which time we might well have paid £80m for Gray.