{"id":6687,"date":"2017-08-15T12:33:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T16:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=6687"},"modified":"2017-08-15T12:33:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T16:33:22","slug":"hull-city-burnley-sam-clucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2017\/08\/15\/hull-city-burnley-sam-clucas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull City Reject Second Bid from Burnley for Midfielder Sam Clucas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Championship side Hull City turned down a \u00a35 million offer from top flight Burnley for midfielder Sam Clucas. The Clarets have now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/40940224\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">improved their bid<\/a> to \u00a310 million, but the Tigers are remaining firm in their attempts to hold onto him. It has also been reported that\u00a0club have opened talks with the 26-year-old over a new contract, despite his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/37107313\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing a new three-year deal<\/a> last August.<\/p>\n<p>Clucas, who has two years remaining on his current deal, joined Hull back in 2015 from Chesterfield and has since gone on to make 95 appearances for the club,\u00a0scoring nine goals in the process. During the 2015-16 season, the Lincoln-born midfield was a crucial part of\u00a0his side&#8217;s promotion to the Premier League,\u00a0before making a name for himself in England\u2019s top flight last campaign with a number of strong appearances.<\/p>\n<p>So far this campaign, Clucas has picked up where he left off. He\u00a0played the full 90 minutes in Hull\u2019s season opener against Aston Villa at the start of the month, as well as playing\u00a071 minutes\u00a0in his side&#8217;s 4-1 thrashing of Burton Albion at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having their second bid rejected, Burnley could still come back with an even bigger offer\u00a0after gaining \u00a318.5 million from the sale of Andr\u00e9 Gray to Watford last week.\u00a0Hull manager Leonid Slutsky, however,\u00a0has told the club\u2019s owners that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj_2aS-1NnVAhWEL1AKHVj4AhoQFgguMAE&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hulldailymail.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Ffootball-news%2Fhull-city-manager-leonid-slutsky-214098&amp;usg=AFQjCNHw9WVGcZZUFJCStGeVMljyPwK-kg\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he doesn\u2019t want to lose any more players<\/a> in this transfer window and turning down a hefty bid of \u00a310 million for Clucas will be seen as a statement of intent.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"_ZQ9OkwjQkhBbdvaXQObZw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/826689304\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'_ZQ9OkwjQkhBbdvaXQObZw',sig:'tKrs4XQyBbD_fx8N53VBc34R6DqmI6uWFYxkdFr-fR4=',w:'594px',h:'445px',items:'826689304',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Championship side Hull City turned down a \u00a35 million offer from top flight Burnley for midfielder Sam Clucas. The Clarets have now improved their bid to \u00a310 million, but the Tigers are remaining firm in their attempts to hold onto him. It has also been reported that\u00a0club have opened talks with the 26-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2224,"featured_media":6698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10,33,32,2,14,3],"tags":[482,197,295,40,1394],"class_list":["post-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfers","category-burnley","category-championship","category-league-football","category-featured","category-hull-city","category-premier-league","tag-burnley","tag-championship","tag-hull-city","tag-premier-league","tag-sam-clucas"],"modified_by":"Hugo Jennings","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}