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The Middlesbrough Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Middlesbrough make their move for Julio Soler

$7.3M on the table at Bournemouth. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

An offer of $960.0K for Veljko Milosavljević

Middlesbrough have gone to Bournemouth with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Dávid Strelec stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Dávid Strelec and Middlesbrough agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market10 Aug 2026

Middlesbrough say no — this time

The offer from Shrewsbury Town for Luke Woolston was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Middlesbrough

Callum Brittain 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Eyes on George Edmundson again

The phone has started ringing about George Edmundson again, and this time the name on the line is Hull City. Middlesbrough are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Middlesbrough

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adilson Malanda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Middlesbrough ask about Jefferson Cuadrado

A loan enquiry to La Equidad: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Dávid Strelec knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dávid Strelec trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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The Middlesbrough Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Callum Brittain wants more than Middlesbrough are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Callum Brittain 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Luke Ayling signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luke Ayling and Middlesbrough agree another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Middlesbrough

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Riley McGree was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad3 Aug 2026

9 new faces, and Middlesbrough are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Dávid Strelec asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief