The Middlesbrough Gazette
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Rhian Brewster stays at Derby County as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Middlesbrough will try again when the window opens; Derby County may not be selling by then.
Match12 Sep 2026
Hull City take the points off Middlesbrough
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Door shut on Andrey Santos
Middlesbrough asked and Manchester United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Radek Vítek
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Radek Vítek, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Middlesbrough training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Riley McGree is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Darragh Lenihan 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Charles Thompson to a room that had heard them before.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Middlesbrough man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Tommy Conway was the best thing in any of them.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
The goals keep arriving from Sontje Hansen’s exile
7 goals in 5 games at Gaziantep — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Middlesbrough updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
In brief
- Squad A ban for Alfie Jones
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Kyle Joseph
- Market The Dávid Strelec question follows Middlesbrough around