Leandro Bevin

Striker - Middlesbrough U20
13 Nov 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Leandro Bevin

7 Edition

The Middlesbrough Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Leandro Bevin breaks a bone — 18 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Riley McGree hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Middlesbrough can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Radek Vítek stands alone

7 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.

Market

Aston Villa come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Middlesbrough did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

A falling-out at Middlesbrough

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

Transfer targets

Middlesbrough rebuffed over Erick Pulgar

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Flamengo have kept their man, and Middlesbrough go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Middlesbrough come up short against Hull City

Hull City left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Jacob Edwards: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Max Arfsten

“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.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Middlesbrough Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Aidan Morris hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Middlesbrough can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A fracture rules Leandro Bevin out for 26 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Middlesbrough will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Middlesbrough say no — this time

The offer from Crystal Palace for Aidan Morris was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Leo Castledine agrees terms with Port Vale

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Middlesbrough people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Middlesbrough baulk at the price for Terry Devlin

Portsmouth wanted more than $6.4M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 7 signed and 9 gone

That is the business done at Middlesbrough until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Hiroto Taniguchi raises the bar for Middlesbrough

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Middlesbrough heard it as anything else.

Squad

Hiroto Taniguchi in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Middlesbrough this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Bodo/Glimt tell Middlesbrough: Sondre Brunstad Fet 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Middlesbrough Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Middlesbrough pay Kawasaki Frontale $10.3M for a proper upgrade

Kawasaki Frontale did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $10.3M for Hiroto Taniguchi, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Squad

A fracture rules Leandro Bevin out for 33 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Middlesbrough will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Transfer targets

Middlesbrough make their move for Terry Devlin

$6.0M on the table at Portsmouth. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Radek Vítek

There were 6 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 targets

Slavia Prague tell Middlesbrough: Mojmír Chytil 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.

Market

George McCormick 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.

Player ratings

Alan Browne pops up at the right end — 7.75

7.75, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Transfer targets

No deal for Emmanuel Adegboyega at that price

Middlesbrough offered $1.6M; Rotherham United said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Middlesbrough Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Hiroto Taniguchi

Middlesbrough and Kawasaki Frontale have settled on $10.3M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market

Torino come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Middlesbrough did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Middlesbrough walk away from Juan Brunetta

$14.7M was the most the club would pay and Tigres were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Player ratings

Both of them Will Lankshear's — 9.00

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.00, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

A fracture rules Leandro Bevin out for 42 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Middlesbrough will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Transfer targets

Middlesbrough rebuffed over Liel Abada

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Charlotte Football Club have kept their man, and Middlesbrough go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

Middlesbrough make their move for Emmanuel Adegboyega

$1.6M on the table at Rotherham United. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Tempers go at Middlesbrough

Radek Vítek 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.

Match

Millwall take the points off Middlesbrough

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief