The Middlesbrough Gazette
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dávid Strelec stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dávid Strelec and Middlesbrough agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Middlesbrough
Callum Brittain 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Riley McGree 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dávid Strelec knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dávid Strelec trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market10 Aug 2026
No place for Law McCabe in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Law McCabe has his answer from Middlesbrough; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market10 Aug 2026
Middlesbrough bring in an old head
Federico Nicosia is 36 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
In brief
- Market Nobody at Middlesbrough has picked up the phone to Alex Bangura
- Market Talks stall between Middlesbrough and Harley Hunt