Matthew Murphy

Left Midfielder - Middlesbrough U18
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Matthew Murphy

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The Middlesbrough Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for George Edmundson

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

Transfer targets

$17.1M settles it between the clubs for Ollie Scarles

West Ham United have accepted the money. What Middlesbrough do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets

Veracruz tell Middlesbrough: Christian Dos Santos 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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $4.1M for James Carragher

Middlesbrough have gone to Wigan Athletic with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Player ratings

Alex Bangura runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Middlesbrough

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Match

Morgan Whittaker’s goal not enough for Middlesbrough

Morgan Whittaker scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Preston, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market

Middlesbrough promote Charles Ross from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Charles Ross has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Middlesbrough promote Matthew Murphy from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matthew Murphy has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief