The Middlesbrough Gazette
Market5 Jul 2027
Harry Moore agrees terms with Bromley
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Middlesbrough people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Door shut on Charlie Webster
Middlesbrough asked and Burton Albion said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Remi Matthews is a medical away from Middlesbrough
The deal with Crystal Palace is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Radek Vítek signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Radek Vítek and Middlesbrough agree another 5 years.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Middlesbrough
Callum Brittain 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Tommy Conway wants more than Middlesbrough are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Market5 Jul 2027
One of our own: Robert Thompson joins the Middlesbrough first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Robert Thompson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market5 Jul 2027
Edward Young steps up from the Middlesbrough academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Edward Young has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Middlesbrough training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alex Bangura is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Boardroom $24.0M on the table at Middlesbrough
- Squad Middlesbrough are still strangers to each other
- Boardroom 8 new boys at the Middlesbrough academy