Speculation surrounding the future of striker Danny Ings in recent weeks has gotten to the player, Bunley manager Sean Dyche said after his side's 2-0 defeat to Sunderland.
Burnley remain just a point clear of the bottom three as a result of the defeat on Wearside, but Dyche still pulled off his striker for Lucas Jutkiewicz in the 61st minute on Saturday.
Dyche said Ings has been distracted by all the transfer discussion.
"I don't know how many times -- the player has told everyone in the world that he's going to be a Burnley player, we have told everyone, the chief exec has told everyone," Dyche said:
"The laws and the rules of the Premier League have told them that he will be here, the chairman has told them he'll be here, probably Gus will tell you that he'll be here -- I don't know how many more times you want us to tell you he'll be here.
"Unless someone has got an impossible amount of money, then he will be a Burnley player.
"I took him off because I thought it had affected him -- and it's completely out of his hands, I must make that clear. He has been fantastic. He comes in training, he wants to learn, he wants to improve, he wants to train hard -- all of the good things you want out of a young player.
"But he is human and he is a young, human footballer and I thought it was too much this week. I was almost borderline not going to play him, but because I value him and the team does, then we wanted to play him.
"He'll have a good week's training with us and I think that will settle everything down, the stories go away, he can crack on with being a Burnley footballer and enjoy his football."