James Murphy

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101 Edition

The Middlesbrough Gazette

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets3 Jul 2028

No deal for Harvey Elliott at that price

Middlesbrough offered $15.3M; Liverpool said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets3 Jul 2028

Reading tell Middlesbrough: Nicolás Domínguez 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.

Transfer targets3 Jul 2028

Middlesbrough make their move for Marcus Forss

$9.4M on the table at Chesterfield. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market3 Jul 2028

Micah Hamilton asks to leave Middlesbrough

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market3 Jul 2028

Tino Livramento 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.

Market3 Jul 2028

Middlesbrough turn down Hamrun Spartans for Cruz Ibeh

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

Middlesbrough go back to the board over Marcus Forss

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $10.6M — a club that wants Marcus Forss enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets3 Jul 2028

The paperwork begins on Angel Yondjo

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Middlesbrough have done the hard part with Gillingham, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market3 Jul 2028

Varzim join the queue for Ryan Hardie

Add another name to the list: Varzim have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ryan Hardie. The answer from Middlesbrough has not changed — yet.

In brief

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95 Edition

The Middlesbrough Gazette

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad22 May 2028

A row about effort at Middlesbrough

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lukas Nmecha was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad22 May 2028

Words exchanged at Middlesbrough

James Murphy 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.

The dugout22 May 2028

Riley McGree 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.

Market22 May 2028

Micky van de Ven linked with a move away

The name of Micky van de Ven keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Middlesbrough say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout22 May 2028

Joey Tremain 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.

Loan watch22 May 2028

Kyle Joseph keeps scoring at Cambridge United

44 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Loan watch22 May 2028

Ryan Hardie keeps scoring at Heracles

12 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Squad22 May 2028

“I want to play”: Joey Tremain speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

The dugout22 May 2028

A door opens for Alvaro Salazar

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

88 Edition

The Middlesbrough Gazette

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

Pressure builds in the Middlesbrough boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

Middlesbrough spell it out for Joseph Graham

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Joseph Graham has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Match1 Apr 2028

Blackburn Rovers punish Middlesbrough for switching off

3 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Lukas Nmecha will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Middlesbrough escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

The Middlesbrough board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Player ratings3 Apr 2028

A masterclass from Alex Bangura

Marked 8.17 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match1 Apr 2028

Lukas Nmecha rescues a point for Middlesbrough

It needed Lukas Nmecha to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Blackburn Rovers, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad3 Apr 2028

10 new faces, and Middlesbrough are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Loan watch3 Apr 2028

Hinneh Listowell counts the days

“I watch every Middlesbrough game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Stevenage runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout3 Apr 2028

The manager's exit leaves Micky van de Ven exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Micky van de Ven is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

In brief