OUT-of-contract Stephen Jordan has admitted he would love to stay at Turf Moor, but doesn’t yet know what the future holds.

The left back, who is battling to shake off a knee injury in time to face his former club Manchester City tomorrow, is one of 12 players whose deals expire this summer, but has so far only held tentative discus-sions with manager Brian Laws.

“There’s been a bit of talk but nothing far along the line,” said the 28-year-old, who was signed by Steve Cotterill on a free transfer from Eastlands in the summer of 2007. “I’d definitely like to stay.”

However, he insists his pers-onal goal won’t get in the way of helping Burnley to achieve theirs and staying in the Premier League.

The Clarets go into tomor-row’s game against City with boss Laws and the players feeling they need to win at least three to survive.

It seems an unrealistic, and unlikely, target for a side who have won only once in the last 21 games and picked up just four points from a possible 39 this year. But Jordan says the players, and fans, must keep believing.

“We have City, Liverpool and Tottenham coming up and we feel we have a better chance against them than the ones around us,” he said.

“I have no idea why. Maybe it’s because they will attack us more and we can counter attack them.

“It’s odd but if you look at Manchester United at home, Arsenal at home and Everton at home we have done well.

“We didn’t expect to get anything out of those games but we did.

“City will be expected to get a result and we have to use that to our advantage.”

It was at Eastlands in November where Burnley earned their only away point of the season so far.

Their previously enviable home form has deserted them in their last four games at Turf Moor, with a draw and three defeats keeping them in the relegation zone.

But Jordan is confident they haven’t lost the ability to be unbeatable at home.

“We’ve had a bit of bad form but we still believe we can beat anybody here and that’s what we’ve got to aim for.”