BURNLEY have revealed how their bid to bring Argentine winger Marcelo Carrusca fell down at the 11th hour after Galatasary changed the terms of the deal.

An agreement was made by both clubs for the exciting 24-year-old to stay at Turf Moor until the end of the season, with a view to making the move permanent in the summer.

But in a dramatic late twist, Galatasary altered the terms of Carrusca's lucrative contract and the Argentina Under 20 international failed to put pen to paper.

"The Carrusca deal is one we are frustrated in because we believed terms with his club were made, but it hasn't turned out to be the agreement we reached," explained Burnley operational director Brendan Flood.

"The player would have had to surrender some of his contract benefits in order to come to us, but Galatasary left it late to reveal the problem so we're unable to make what we believed an agreed deal happen.

"He is on Premiership money, but with the deal we had set up, we'd just about made the maths work for us. We were offering a very good deal for him to come to us. The way these loan deals work, the club they are registered with pays their contracted wages. But Galatasary moved the goalposts in a re-negotiation with the player.

"They agreed a figure with us then tried to get their player to take a lower figure for his wages. But we only found that out late and unfortunately we can't get him in."

He added: "It's always going to be difficult because you are dealing with a different country. We always knew it was going to be a little bit speculative, but having thought we got an agreement it's very disappointing.

"The terms of trade they wanted with their player were unacceptable to him.

"We can agree a deal between us and them, but they are making the player unhappy by changing his contract."

Manager Owen Coyle was equally disappointed that his move for the talented wide man didn't come to fruition in time for the remainder of this season, after monitoring Carrusca's situation for over a month. But he hasn't ruled out resurrecting the deal in the summer.

"That would have been an exciting one for us and the supporters to get an Argentinian international who cost $7m US dollars," said Coyle of the player who Maradona once dubbed the new Maradona'.

"But that was an uncontrollable, as they say, from our point of view.

"We did our very best, that's the bottom line. I've been chasing that one for five weeks and we had put a clause in that we would have had first option on him in the summer to buy for a decent sum.

"You think everything has been overcome until the last hurdle.

"But we move on, and come back stronger for the disappointment.

"It's not a straight-forward transfer between two English clubs, Argentinian lawyers and a Turkish club are involved, so it was never going to be straight-forward.

"You prepare yourself, at any given point, for it to fall down, and that's what's happened.

"It is probably something we would like to do in the summer."

Flood added: "It's probably a situation where he needs his contract to come to an end before anything can happen.

"But now we've got him on the radar hopefully it might be something we can do. I think in the short term we are probably unable to progress.

"But football's an ever changing environment and there are new peopel and new players who come into view all the time.

"I think Owen would see that if we can't do business with Galatasary we'll look at other options who we would view as benefiting the squad. That might not mean this season, it might mean next season."