The Middlesbrough Gazette
Market28 Aug 2028
Joe Taylor 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.
Market28 Aug 2028
Terms done: George Edmundson is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Barrow AFC waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Middlesbrough is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets28 Aug 2028
Middlesbrough agree $620.0K for Macaulay Langstaff
The clubs have shaken hands with Millwall; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market28 Aug 2028
Bromley come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Middlesbrough did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets28 Aug 2028
Middlesbrough rebuffed over Will Forrester
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Leyton Orient have kept their man, and Middlesbrough go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets28 Aug 2028
Too dear: Middlesbrough walk away from Romeo Akachukwu
$890.0K was the most the club would pay and Southampton were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Lamare Bogarde 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.
Match26 Aug 2028
Joe Taylor sends Middlesbrough past Cardiff City
It finished 2‑1, and it was Joe Taylor’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Middlesbrough.
Match26 Aug 2028
The drought breaks for Middlesbrough
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Cardiff City were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Alfie Jones
- Player ratings Riley McGree takes the honours
- Squad Simon Marshall signs a new deal