Benjamin Murphy

Striker - Middlesbrough U18
29 Aug 2028
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105 Edition

The Middlesbrough Gazette

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market31 Jul 2028

Middlesbrough may not be able to give Tyrell Malacia what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Tyrell Malacia wants continental football; whether Middlesbrough can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Transfer targets31 Jul 2028

Too dear: Middlesbrough walk away from Diego León

$1.2M was the most the club would pay and Manchester United 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.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Liam Delap 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 targets31 Jul 2028

Middlesbrough rebuffed over André Onana

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

Squad31 Jul 2028

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Benjamin Murphy

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Middlesbrough will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout31 Jul 2028

Alfie Jones asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market31 Jul 2028

The Morgan Whittaker question follows Middlesbrough around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Morgan Whittaker’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout31 Jul 2028

Morgan Whittaker has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Morgan Whittaker has written the date down.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Sol Brynn has seen what the next man earns

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Middlesbrough that is a harder question to answer.

In brief

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71 Edition

The Middlesbrough Gazette

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

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