Goal efficiency
How clinical and direct the player was in front of goal — volume, accuracy, and conversion.
Burnley · Africa Cup of Nations · Attacker · #9 · South Africa · 25 yrs · Injured
L. Foster plays as an attacker for Burnley. L. Foster is a represents South Africa, 25 years old, attacker, currently at Burnley. L. Foster wears shirt number 9 for Burnley. L. Foster was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on 2000-09-03. L. Foster is 185 cm tall and weighs 70 kg. L. Foster's Sportra profile tracks season statistics across Africa Cup of Nations, Coupe de la Ligue, Friendlies, World Cup, and other leagues. L. Foster is currently listed as injured in the latest squad data. L. Foster's page brings together career clubs, trophies, injury history, multi-competition stats, and related news headlines. On Sportra you can explore L. Foster season statistics, transfer history, trophies, injury updates, and related news across every competition tracked in the profile.
| Season | Team |
|---|---|
| 2026 |  South Africa RSA |
| 2025 |  Burnley BUR |
| 2025 | South Africa RSA |
| 2024 | Burnley BUR |
| 2023 | Burnley BUR |
| Date | Type | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-25 | € 11M |  KVC Westerlo WES | Burnley BUR |
| 2021-07-07 | Loan |  Guimaraes GUI | KVC Westerlo WES |
| 2020-08-13 | € 1.2M |  Monaco MON | Guimaraes GUI |
Season intelligence
Profile as Forward: high usage. Archetype: Box-to-box engine. Season rating 7.0.
Scaled 0–99 from season output — map to fantasy, comparisons, or scouting cards.
Per-90 rates, efficiency ratios, and Sportra indices from season totals.
How clinical and direct the player was in front of goal — volume, accuracy, and conversion.
Playmaking output: assists, key passes, and custom chance-creation signals.
Isolation threat and progressive carrying — volume plus success rate.
How often they draw fouls and stay out of trouble with cards.
Tackles, duels, and off-ball defensive contribution.
Shot-stopping, goals conceded, and penalty saves.
Minutes, availability, and how central they were to the team.
Every tracked category for this league and season, grouped by Sportra.
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!In the 1941 RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury repertory theatre production Citizen Kane, Orson Welles essayed a man who began as a whirlwind of prolific energy, only to spectacularly fizzle out, to the extent that near the end, stubborn pride his only remaining fuel, he could barely move around or achieve anything of note at all. Football Daily isn’t sure how any of this relates to Charles Foster’s namesake Harry, or his recent Geopolitics World Cup campaign; nor are we sure what bit of Welles’ career Harry’s mooted move from Bayern Munich to Al-Hilal would be comparable with. The flawed masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons, perhaps, or that thing where he loses his mind over Findus peas.Don Revie and his merry henchmen [Tuesday’s Memory Lane, full email edition] getting ready for a night on the lash, as it was back then. Lest we forget: one-club man Jack Charlton once said ‘I cant play football, but I can stop those that can’. Diamond geezer eh?” – Alvin Jordan.It was bewildering to read in Tuesdays’s Football Daily that ‘Kevin Lamour was a lone dissenting voice inside Fifa’s lair when Gianni Infantino’s plot to flog part of the World Cup to private investors – potentially on the cheap – was rumbled’. He was far from lone. Fifa’s secretary-general, Mattias Grafström, called the FFE plans a ‘sad and reproachable series of events’ in an email to staff. Fifa’s chief of global development, someone called Arsène Wenger, pronounced the withdrawal of FFE ‘absolutely necessary and beyond question’. Above all, Infantino’s right-hand man, the Fifa senior advisor Carlos Cordeiro, stated: ‘I cannot stand by while Fifa considers selling a stake in the World Cup. Let me be clear: I had no involvement in this proposal, and I oppose it unequivocally. It is a bad deal for Fifa’s member associations, a bad deal for football, and a bad deal for the long-term future of the game.’ And unlike Lamour, Grafström, or Wenger, Cordeiro put his money where his mouth was and resigned” – Simon Skinner.Talking of players’ wages, my Middlesborough friend who knew Wilf Mannion told me that when he was chosen to play for England at Wembley that they gave him a third-class rail ticket to get there. Unfortunately the train was so crowded that he had to sit on his suitcase in the corridor the whole way to London (not an unusual situation in those days)” – Bob Hopper.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...
Kick off the new season in the Championship, League One and League Two with our 16-question quiz By The Football MineThis is a quiz by Richard Foster, who presents the It Started With A Kick podcast and edits The Football Mine. Continue reading...
Manchester United aren’t quite ready to compete for the title, says club legend Steve Bruce (Picture: talkSPORT) Steve Bruce has played down Manchester United’s Premier League title hopes and picked out reigning champions Arsenal as the ‘team to beat’ this coming season. Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal cantered to the title with a game to spare last term, holding off nearest rivals Manchester City to end the club’s painful 22-year wait for top-flight glory. Having finished with an imperious seven-point advantage at the summit, the Gunners will hope to carry that same form into the new campaign, which starts at home to Premier League new boys Coventry in a week’s time. First, though, the north Londoners will look to build some confidence in what promises to be an intriguing Community Shield showdown against Enzo Maresca’s City at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on Sunday. Get the latest transfer news every morning Sign up to our daily football newsletter for personalised updates on who your team is trying to sign and who won't be around next season. For Bruce’s former club United, the season gets up and running away to newly promoted Hull City – the team he managed from 2012 to 2016 – on August 22. A dramatic end-of-season resurgence under Michael Carrick has Bruce feeling positive about the year ahead at Old Trafford, with the club competing in the Champions League again for the first time since 2023/24. Earlier this week, ex-United and England goalkeeper Ben Foster put his neck on the line by tipping the Red Devils for the title while featuring as a guest on talkSPORT. Arteta steered Arsenal to a first league title in 22 years last season (Picture: Getty) Carrick was given the Manchester United job on a full-time basis back in May (Picture: Getty) When asked for his thoughts on Foster’s bold prediction, though, Bruce replied: ‘I think that’s too much too soon. I’d love to say he was right! ‘But I still think Arsenal are the one to beat and they’ve just strengthened as well with Bruno Guimaraes alongside Declan Rice. And I still believe there’s one or two coming into Arsenal. ‘They’re still the one to beat. They won it at a canter in the end, didn’t they? So they’re the ones to beat. ‘Look, Manchester United have made huge strides. I would think getting in the Champions League would be a success for Michael Carrick. But for United to go on and win it? I’m not sure they’re quite ready yet.’ The Gunners are the ‘team to beat’ this coming season, says Bruce (Picture: Getty) Bruce has been hugely impressed with the work Carrick has done in ‘simplifying’ the task at hand at United, with the club rising from seventh – when he took over – to finish third in the table last season. ‘He’s come in and steadied the ship in his own way,’ Bruce – who won three Premier League titles with United – went on. ‘He’s put his stamp on them and he’s played in a certain way which is very simple. Carrick steered United to a third-placed finish last term (Picture: PA) ‘It looks as if he’s simplified it whereas before it always looked so complicated. ‘I’m never going to criticise a head coach of anybody because I know how difficult it is, but the last manager [Ruben Amorim] seemed to be just obsessed with the way he wanted to play and it wasn’t working. ‘He [Amorim] seemed reluctant to change what he wanted to do which is fair enough, but certainly Michael has come in, played a back four and been very simple in what he’s done, but the players have responded to it.’ Bruce won three Premier League titles with the Red Devils (Picture: Getty) According to Bruce, the added workload that comes with qualifying for the Champions League means this season will be a ‘different kettle of fish’ for Carrick and his team compared to the last. ‘A foray into Europe would be fantastic,’ he continued. ‘The big thing Michael had in his advantage last year was that Manchester United were knocked out of the FA Cup and League Cup very quickly and they didn’t have Europe, so they played
Arsenal made a mistake selling Leandro Trossard to Besiktas, says Ben Foster (Picture: Getty) Former England goalkeeper Ben Foster says he ‘can’t believe’ Arsenal allowed such an ‘influential’ squad member leave in Leandro Trossard this summer. Trossard played a key role as the Gunners brought their 22-year title drought to an end last season, finishing the top-flight campaign with six assists and six goals to his name. But the 31-year-old made it clear he was keen for a fresh challenge after two-and-a-half seasons in north London and went on to complete a move to Turkish giants Besiktas for a fee of just £15.3million. The Premier League champions had made sure to line up a like-for-like replacement in the shape of Christos Tzolis, who touched down at the Emirates to fill the void left by the Belgian on the left wing. Get the latest transfer news every morning Sign up to our daily football newsletter for personalised updates on who your team is trying to sign and who won't be around next season. But Tzolis’ only previous experience of English football – a two-year spell with Norwich City – hardly set the world alight and there will be pressure on the Greece international to justify the £34m that Arsenal spent to sign the forward from Club Brugge. Arsenal had hoped to further strengthen their attack with a statement move for Vinicius Junior and were optimistic of prising the Brazilian away from Real Madrid right up until last week. Vinicius would go on to sign a new long-term contract at the Bernabeu, though, and it remains to be seen if the Gunners will focus their attentions on a possible alternative before the transfer deadline. Trossard brought his Arsenal spell to an end after two-and-a-half years in north London (Picture: Getty) The Belgian won the Premier League title with the Gunners last season (Picture: Getty) ‘I don’t like the Trossard sale, I really don’t,’ Foster said when discussing Arsenal’s transfer dealings on talkSPORT. I think he’s such a big, influential player for them and I can’t believe they’ve sold him. But on Bruno Guimaraes’ arrival, Foster added: ‘Big signing, I like him a lot.’ {"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Martin Odegaard heads ball directly into police officer during Arsenal parade","contentUrl":"https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2026\/06\/01\/188721103218914644\/480x270_MP4_188721103218914644.mp4","description":"Whoops!","duration":"T8S","height":480,"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/06\/01\/12\/109008017-0-image-a-36_1780314932393.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-06-01T12:52:23+0100","width":270} To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page window.addEventListener('metroVideo:relatedVideosCarouselLoaded', function(data) { if (typeof(data.detail) === 'undefined' || typeof(data.detail.carousel) === 'undefined' || typeof(data.detail.carousel.el_) === 'undefined') { return; } var player = data.detail.carousel.el_; var container = player.closest('.metro-video-player'); var placeholder = container.querySelector('.metro-video-player__up-next-placeholder'); if (placeholder) { container.removeChild(placeholder); container.classList.add('metro-video-player--related-videos-loaded'); } }); According to Foster, the title race appears wide open before a ball has been kicked this season. However, the ex-Manchester United shot-stopper is feeling confident about the Red Devils’ chances on the back of their end-of-season resurgence under Michael Carrick. ‘I think it’s one of the hardest calls to make that we’ve had in recent years,’ he said. United could challenge with ‘one or two’ more big signings, says Foster (Picture: Getty) When pushed to pick out an eventual champion, Foster added: ‘I’m going to say Manchester United. ‘Last season’s form has set into motion a style of play and an expectation of what those players have to deliver week in, week out for Mancheste
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