talkSPORT : reported that Transfer news: High-profile players itching to leave their Premier League club this summer

For some players, the summer transfer window is a frustrating period of wanting to leave but not getting that dream move. So, including a team-mate of Lukaku's, scroll through the gallery above to take a look at the most high-profile players looking to leave their Premier League club this summer. While Romelu Lukaku has got his wish of leaving soccer/">Everton for a club competing in the Champions League with Manchester United, others haven't, yet, been quite so fortunate.

The Premier League players forced to stay against their will and how it panned out

And times that teams should have soldWayne Rooney, Manchester United, 2013Sir Alex Ferguson knew that Rooney was in decline when he left Manchester United in 2013, and tried to usher him out of the door. Suarez scored 31 Premier League goals and pushed soccer/">Liverpool within inches of their first title in a generation. His goals fired United to a third straight Premier League title and into the final of the Champions League, which they lost to Barcelona. Diego Costa, Chelsea, 2017By January 2017, Diego Costa's goals had already fired Chelsea to the brink of the Premier League title. Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United, 2008When Real Madrid first came for Cristiano Ronaldo in the summer of 2008, then-Fifa president Sepp Blatter famously said it was "modern slavery" for Manchester United to hold onto him.

Burnley are the only Premier League side to field players developed in the UK and Europe (From Lancashire Telegraph)

It showed that 85 per cent of minutes played by soccer/">Burnley players last season were by players developed in the UK. Burnley were the only Premier League side last season to use players developed exclusively in the UK or Europe, a new study has found. A Press Association investigation has looked at the number of minutes played in last season's top-flight by Academy graduates. They also had the greatest proportion - 41 per cent - of players developed outside Europe. Striker Agyei signed for Burnley from AFC Wimbledon as an 18-year-old and he played 24 minutes in the Premier League last season, featuring three times off the bench.


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