Liam Walker

Left Forward - Middlesbrough
3 May 2029
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92 Edition

The Middlesbrough Gazette

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Middlesbrough

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Match

Middlesbrough finish in position 9

66 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

The dugout

Liam Walker says Middlesbrough went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A falling-out at Middlesbrough

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

Boardroom

Gavin Kilkenny will join Middlesbrough for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Gavin Kilkenny has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Middlesbrough have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

The dugout

Adilson Malanda 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.

Match

Middlesbrough come up short against Southampton

Southampton left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Middlesbrough keep their word to Callum Brittain

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout

Víctor Santiago answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

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The Middlesbrough Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Sinclair Armstrong’s goal not enough for Middlesbrough

Sinclair Armstrong scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Wolverhampton, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Words exchanged at Middlesbrough

Adam Davies 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.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Sinclair Armstrong

7.87, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Middlesbrough had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

Víctor Santiago faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Víctor Santiago after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Morgan Whittaker 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 Morgan Whittaker trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

A ban for Jeremy Sarmiento

One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. Middlesbrough lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.

Loan watch

Joe Taylor keeps scoring at KV Kortrijk

11 appearances away from home and 8 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

Sol Brynn 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.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Middlesbrough

Something was said to Law McCabe and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief