The Middlesbrough Gazette
Market15 Sep 2042
Paul Murphy is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Middlesbrough is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 Sep 2042
Leo Castledine 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.
Squad15 Sep 2042
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Zuleta
“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.
Squad15 Sep 2042
Joshua Cooper has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Middlesbrough will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Squad15 Sep 2042
Charles Shaw has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Middlesbrough will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market15 Sep 2042
The Steven Harvey question follows Middlesbrough around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Steven Harvey’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Boardroom Middlesbrough keep producing them
- Market Middlesbrough put Alexander Murray up for sale
- Market Window shut, Samuel Owusu Ansah still here