The Middlesbrough Gazette
Match23 Jun 2035
A hiding for Middlesbrough
Beaten 1‑4 by Portsmouth, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market25 Jun 2035
Christophe Lacroix 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.
Squad25 Jun 2035
David Bell says Middlesbrough went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Riley McGree 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.
Market25 Jun 2035
Eyes on Christophe Lacroix again
The phone has started ringing about Christophe Lacroix again, and this time the name on the line is Colchester United. Middlesbrough are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Micah Hamilton 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.
Squad25 Jun 2035
The manager makes an example of Aidan Morris
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market25 Jun 2035
Shrewsbury Town expected to open talks for Ajay Matthews
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Middlesbrough will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Player ratings25 Jun 2035
Nobody could get near David White
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Boardroom Inquest at Middlesbrough
- Market The Vitaly Janelt question follows Middlesbrough around
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Dávid Strelec