BURNLEY smashed their transfer record for the second time this summer and sent their August spending over the £20million mark on an historic deadline day for the Clarets.

The Turf Moor club shook hands on a deal to bring midfielder Jeff Hendrick in from Derby County for a fee believed to be around £10.5million.

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The Republic of Ireland international jetted in from Dublin to sign a three-year contract, and in doing so beat the previous record mark set when Clarets paid Anderlecht £7.5m for Steven Defour earlier this month.

Those two purchases added to the captures of Iceland Euro 2016 star Johann Berg Gudmundsson and goalkeeper Nick Pope from Charlton Athletic for a combined £3.6m earlier in the summer.

And the fact Burnley also managed to keep hold of centre-half Michael Keane despite a bid of £15m from Premier League champions Leicester City makes it a fantastic transfer window for the club.

As the Lancashire Telegraph went to press last night, an expected £7m move for Poland winger Kamil Grosicki had not been confirmed by the 11pm deadline.

But the club did have an extra hour to get it done if the paperwork had been submitted before the original cut-off point.

Grosicki was understood to have flown in from Warsaw, where he was on international duty, to pen a three-year contract after agreeing to leave French Ligue 1 side Rennes.

The 28-year-old was one of Poland’s stand-out stars at Euro 2016, playing in all five of their matches at the tournament in France.

He has spent the last two-and-a-half seasons at Roazhon Park, where he has made 70 appearances and scored nine goals.

Hendrick finally sealed his switch from Pride Park, with the midfielder making a whistle-stop trip to East Lancashire from Dublin, where he was in the Republic of Ireland squad to face Oman last night, to pass a medical and sign the deal.

He said: “The Premier League was a big draw for me and it’s where I aspire to be after the summer I’ve had.

“I know there have been a number of bids and I was sitting there waiting for one to be accepted.”

On a frenetic day when summer spending across the Premier League soared over £1billion for the first time in history as the impact of the new mega-money TV took hold, one deal Clarets couldn’t get done was Brighton’s Dale Stephens.

The midfielder, 26, is understood to have handed in a transfer request, but the Seagulls turned down a sixth bid from Turf Moor yesterday morning