The Middlesbrough Gazette
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Middlesbrough's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Middlesbrough has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Amario Cozier-Duberry, 21, steals the show — 7.97
Marked 7.97 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market19 Oct 2026
Ashley Phillips is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Middlesbrough is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Jeremy Sarmiento was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Middlesbrough
Radek Vítek was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Rokas Pukstas is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Park Jin-Seob did the work nobody counts — 6.50
12 combined actions and 6.50. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
Middlesbrough supporters have found a favourite in Amario Cozier-Duberry
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Amario Cozier-Duberry has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sebastian Berhalter signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sebastian Berhalter commits to Middlesbrough for another 3 years.
In brief
- The dugout Adilson Malanda gets it from the manager
- Match Middlesbrough and Stoke City take a point apiece
- The dugout The manager’s verdict