The Middlesbrough Gazette
Squad17 Aug 2026
119 days out for Luke Ayling after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Middlesbrough will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Middlesbrough rebuffed over Adrien Truffert
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bournemouth have kept their man, and Middlesbrough go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Will Lankshear moves on
Burnley pay $7.8M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Middlesbrough go back to the board over Adrien Truffert
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $32.7M — a club that wants Adrien Truffert enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $270.0K for Carl Piergianni
Middlesbrough have gone to Stevenage 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Radek Vítek 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Jeremy Sarmiento was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Callum Brittain 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.
In brief
- Market Stevenage join the queue for George McCormick
- Market Simon Johnson steps up from the Middlesbrough academy
- Market Christopher Hamilton steps up from the Middlesbrough academy