Burnley are set to take over Belgian Pro League side KV Kortrijk, according to reports.

Belgian-based newspaper HLN claim that the Clarets have made an offer of £13million (€15million) to buy the club from Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan - who paid €5m in May 2015. Tan is now keen to sell the club, but his stance against selling to foreign parties led to chairman Ronny Verhelst and general manager Matthias Leterme leaving in April.

HLN's report claims that Burnley want Leterme to stay on board though, due to the positive work he has done in recent years. The team's manager, Bernd Storck, has already left KVK too. Therefore, Kortrijk's upcoming summer looks like a crucial one, with plenty of work to be done after a 14th-placed finish and off-the-pitch turmoil.

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Tan has reportedly played hardball over the asking price, but Burnley are said to have now made a sufficient offer - with AFC Bournemouth having been credited with interest earlier this month.

Kompany has shopped in Belgium on multiple occasions since making the move to Turf Moor last summer. The Clarets snapped up Manuel Benson, Josh Cullen, Lyle Foster, Samuel Bastien, Anass Zaroury and Ameen Al-Dakhil over the course of Burnley's title-winning campaign.

The acquisition of KVK would present further recruitment opportunities to Burnley, who could essentially use the Belgian side as their feeder club. Plenty of other Belgian sides - such as Cercle Brugge, Standard Liege, Union St Gilloise and KV Oostende - have been part of ownership groups in similar fashion.

Kortrijk were founded in 1901 and have spent 11 consecutive seasons in the top flight. The club encountered bankruptcy issues in the early noughties, but started to work their way back up the divisions and were back in the top division in 2008/09. The club's stadium - Guldensporenstadion - holds 9,399 supporters.

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