The Middlesbrough Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
George Edmundson agrees terms with Huddersfield Town
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 targets17 Aug 2026
Middlesbrough baulk at the price for Shea Lacey
Manchester United wanted more than $2.0M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Luke Molyneux
Middlesbrough asked and Doncaster Rovers said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Emmanuel Adegboyega arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Emmanuel Adegboyega has, at Middlesbrough, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market17 Aug 2026
Emmanuel Adegboyega is a Middlesbrough player
The fee is $950.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Rotherham United drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ross Barkley 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Callum Brittain 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Stoke City watching Ashley Phillips
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Middlesbrough have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
In brief
- Market Middlesbrough promote Timothy Smith from within
- Match Middlesbrough get the job done against Preston
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Jeremy Sarmiento at his very best