The Middlesbrough Gazette
Player ratings6 Dec 2027
Both of them Dávid Strelec's — 8.90
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.90, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings6 Dec 2027
Nobody could get near Morgan Whittaker
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
Matty Godden 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.
Market6 Dec 2027
Cristhian Mosquera 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.
Match4 Dec 2027
4 matches without a win for Middlesbrough
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Middlesbrough are no longer polite ones.
Match4 Dec 2027
The run at home goes on for Middlesbrough
10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad6 Dec 2027
The step up is real for Josh Dede
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
Radek Vítek 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 terraces6 Dec 2027
The crowd has taken to Rokas Pukstas
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market Middlesbrough promote Robert Young from within
- Market Benjamin Murphy steps up from the Middlesbrough academy
- Market One of our own: Timothy Harris joins the Middlesbrough first team