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The Middlesbrough Gazette

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout5 Jul 2027

Luke Ayling: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Middlesbrough have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market5 Jul 2027

Neto Borges puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Middlesbrough, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market5 Jul 2027

Max Arfsten attracts admirers

The name of Max Arfsten has come up in conversations Middlesbrough were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Words exchanged at Middlesbrough

Alexis Vega and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market5 Jul 2027

Tommy Conway wants more than Middlesbrough are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Giacomo Raspadori falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market5 Jul 2027

Sontje Hansen comes back from a loan that worked

34 appearances and 11 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2027

Chelsea tell Middlesbrough: Emanuel Emegha is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Andrés Ayala out for 15 days

The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Andrés Ayala, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

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The Bristol City Chronicle

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Loan watch22 Feb 2027

22 goals on loan for Josh Stokes

28 appearances at Reading and the goals keep coming. Bristol City are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Market22 Feb 2027

Joe Williams is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bristol City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad22 Feb 2027

A falling-out at Bristol City

Toni Fruk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Karim Azamoum wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Bristol City know it.

Squad22 Feb 2027

A row about effort at Bristol City

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and George Evans was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch22 Feb 2027

Josey Casa-Grande counts the days

“I watch every Bristol City game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Macarthur FC runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Player ratings22 Feb 2027

Tomi Horvat beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match20 Feb 2027

Honours even between Bristol City and Portsmouth

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

Adam Randell knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bristol City, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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The Bristol City Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad21 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Cameron Pring

77 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bristol City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Vito Mannone stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Bristol City

Toni Fruk was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Ander Astralaga gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match19 Sep 2026

A bad afternoon for Bristol City against Norwich City

0‑2 to Norwich City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad21 Sep 2026

George Evans falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Loan watch21 Sep 2026

Josey Casa-Grande counts the days

“I watch every Bristol City game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Macarthur FC runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Jacob Miller faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jacob Miller after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Ander Astralaga

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

  • Player ratings The chances came and went for Toni Fruk
  • Looking ahead A reunion for Neto Borges
  • Player ratings Sam Bell leaves them behind him
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The Bristol City Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Aug 2026

Cameron Pring damages knee ligaments — 108 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 108 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A one-man rearguard from Vito Mannone

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Bristol City baulk at the price for Harrison Reed

Fulham wanted more than $1.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Bristol City

Adam Randell was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match22 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Bristol City against Stoke City

0‑2 to Stoke City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Bristol City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rob Atkinson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Jacob Miller: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Neto Borges

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market24 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Bristol City and George Evans

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bristol City, another week without a signature from George Evans.

In brief