The Middlesbrough Gazette
Market14 Aug 2034
Terms done: Kenny Quetant is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Everton waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Middlesbrough is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market14 Aug 2034
Middlesbrough turn down Ipswich Town for Keisuke Osako
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market14 Aug 2034
Joe Bradshaw 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.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2034
Door shut on Figueiredo
Middlesbrough asked and Chesterfield said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad14 Aug 2034
A falling-out at Middlesbrough
Jurriën Timber and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market14 Aug 2034
Bristol Rovers join the queue for Jaydon Thomas-Smith
Add another name to the list: Bristol Rovers have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jaydon Thomas-Smith. The answer from Middlesbrough has not changed — yet.
Squad14 Aug 2034
A row about effort at Middlesbrough
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nuuradiin Mahamuud Abdi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Aug 2034
Middlesbrough lose Stephen Edwards
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Aug 2034
An aura around Fer López
Where he used to play does most of his talking for him at Middlesbrough. The room defers to it, the kids study it, and the only thing that can puncture it is a bad month.
In brief
- The dugout Dylan Levitt asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout A door opens for Nuuradiin Mahamuud Abdi
- Boardroom The Middlesbrough academy earns its keep