The Middlesbrough Gazette
Market3 Jul 2028
Middlesbrough turn down Luton Town for Morgan Whittaker
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Middlesbrough baulk at the price for Ollie Scarles
Peterborough United wanted more than $1.1M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Middlesbrough
Cristhian Mosquera 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.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Chelsea tell Middlesbrough: André Onana is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market3 Jul 2028
One of our own: Nicholas Davis joins the Middlesbrough first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicholas Davis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market3 Jul 2028
Middlesbrough promote Nicholas Harris from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nicholas Harris has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market3 Jul 2028
One of our own: Matthew Hunter joins the Middlesbrough first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matthew Hunter is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Intake day at the Middlesbrough academy
9 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Cristhian Mosquera loses the armband
The captaincy has been taken off Cristhian Mosquera. Middlesbrough will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
In brief
- The dugout Morgan Whittaker knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Michael Mellon is a square peg at Middlesbrough
- Squad A promotion for Archie Collins