Burnley confident of keeping Nugent

DAVID Nugent is available to play for Burnley when he faces his parent club, Portsmouth, next weekend. The 24-year-old has managed to avoid a clause preventing him from featuring against Pompey, who he joined for £6million in July 2007 from Preston but has since made only 18 league starts. Restrictions have previously been imposed to avoid players meeting their employers after making temporary moves between Premier League clubs. But Nugent’s free reign has added weight to the belief that the one-cap England forward will make his switch to Turf Moor permanent when the transfer window opens in January. “As far as I’m concerned he is a Burnley player,” said Clarets boss Owen Coyle, who fended off competition from Wigan Athletic and Hull City to secure the striker on loan until January on transfer deadline day. “There was nothing in the deal to say he couldn’t play against Portsmouth.” Nugent’s struggle for starts has continued since beating the summer transfer cut-off by a matter of minutes in early September. Match fitness was a concern when the Liverpudlian first arrived, but his place among the substitutes has more recently been down to the excellent form of record Steven Fletcher in a lone striker role. Nevertheless, he has continued to win admirers with his impact and performances from the bench – notably two second-half goals in a 3-1 win over Sunderland on his home debut - and the player, manager and board are keen to make the move permanent. Meanwhile, Coyle is hoping for a triple New Year boost as Martin Paterson, Chris McCann and Jay Rodriguez make progress on their road to recovery. Paterson and McCann were both ruled out for three months with knee injuries – Paterson’s is cartilage damage and McCann’s a medial ligament problem. Rodriguez has been sidelined with a broken ankle he suffered in a reserve game against Hull City in late September. But Coyle believes they are all on schedule. “I don’t want to be putting them under pressure by setting dates,” he said. “When they first get injured you always get estimates, and where we are now we’re pleased with how they’re progressing. “There haven’t been any setbacks, so in the next two or three weeks we’ll probably start to ask more questions of them; step things up a bit. “They are three young, talented players who would give us a timely boost.”

unless we have actually sold and not loaned nugent he CANNOT play against us - if he does then the premier league have screwed us over big time as they have previously prevented us from letting loan players face them, as they have others...
i am nearly 100% premier league rules prevent this.

How can premier league rules allow Nugent to play against us when Defoe wasn't allowed to play against Spurs despite having signed a permanent deal. Because he initially signed on loan Defoe wasn't eligible to play for us. Yet another example of rules only being applied when it is to our cost.

hatrick for nugent next week it is then.

a couple of years i would think...
nugent CANNOT play against us, i have had the club confirm this to me.

Point to you there Mike!!! I forgot all about Heskey.

He cannot play against us if he's on loan - it doesn't matter what his individual loan deal says, and if Burnley play him they'll be in no end of trouble. As for them keeping him, PS said a little while ago that he has no future at Pompey. It seems the incident in Portugal sealed that. I wanted it to work out for him too, but it never did, he fell over more than he hit the net and appears to have turned out to be a bit of a trouble-maker. So Burnley, you can have him - PAY US MONEY!!!!!