MikeyBoro

I completely agree, watching Hackney and Barlaser dominate a midfield involving Portuguese international and Euro winner William Carvalho was an absolute joy yesterday. They didn’t keep it up for the whole game but before Smith’s injury we were all over them in midfield. Anyone feeling pessimistic about next season should focus on the real quality, like Hackney, McGree, Lenihan, Barlaser and Forss, we already have at the club. Hackney in particular will thrive under Carrick this season. He could be a £15-20 million player this time next year, particularly if he breaks into the Scotland s

If he has chosen to Luton another source will pick it up in the next 2 hours

Let’s hope it’s another one of these type of stories… https://onefootball.com/en/news/exclusive-stoke-city-set-to-pip-middlesbrough-to-transfer-agreement-for-brighton-defender-35690246

The best thing about the Giles signing is even though £5m is a fairly big outlay for us to be paying for a player at the moment, it still fits the new model perfectly, as in my opinion 5 is still a bargain and another season like last season and we could be looking at a £10-15million player, minimum.

McNair out and Giles in for the same price would be brilliant.

What reason would someone have to make something like that up on a Wolves forum though? I could understand on a Boro forum if they wanted to take the p*** but it’s like someone making an account on here and making up that we’re selling Matthew Hoppe to Ipswich - what would be the point? I’m hopeful that it’s true

With Payero back and the emergence of Agyemang and Stott, do we even need another centre mid?

The things people are saying about Coulson are the exact same things people said about Akpom last summer. Do we never learn?

Selling Chuba may unfortunately be the downside (from a fans perspective) of our new recruitment and transfer policy. If we’re really copying the Brentford model, we’re going to have to accept selling these kinds of players and reinvesting the money back into the club/squad. I don’t think Chuba will ever have a higher value and I’d sell at anything £15m+. Looking at their previous departures, Brentford sold Neal Maupay for £16m and Ollie Watkins for £28m after buying them at a low price (they then bought Ivan Toney for around £5m upfront). Both of those sales will have no doubt angered th

Wonder if Bournemouth are open to Semenyo leaving?

I honestly think we’re going to get our recruitment model spot on. You only have to think about how Brentford fans must have felt signing non-league Andre Gray, or relative unknowns Ollie Watkins or Jota. Or Norwich fans when they signed Buendia from the Spanish second tier. There’s always an element of risk and fear of the unknown, but clubs like Brentford, Brighton, even Wolves and Fulham, have used this model to an extent and it’s paid dividends. Norwich were also running a similar model despite having fallen away in the past couple of seasons. Sunderland have been doing the same

Definite John Stones vibes

Next Summer might be the first summer in years that we don’t need a rebuild. These players could play for us for years to come

Dieng Smith - Lenihan - Fry Van Den Berg - Hackney Rogers - Akpom - McGree - Silvera Forss

With the number of attacking players we’re signing, we could genuinely be going with the Man City 3-2-4-1

Players I think we will be looking at: Jason Steele (if Brighton sign better) Ki-Jana Hoever Charlie Cresswell Steve Cook Kristoffer Ajer Ryan Manning Jamal Lewis Harry Toffolo Krystian Bielek Juninho Bacuna Matt Grimes Will Smallbone Ben Pearson Frank Onyeka James McAtee Chiedozie Ogbene Aaron Collins Ilias Chair Bertrand Traore Antoine Semenyo Ellis Simms Neal Maupay Sory Kaba Lucas Joao I think this is about the level of player we will be looking to sign,

Wonder if we will go in for Jack Colback as a utility player - contract up at Forest and is from the North East, can cover both midfield and left back. Would not be a spectacular signing but is very well thought of at Forest and played most games in their promotion season. Doesn’t fit directly into our recruitment model but could be one of the leaders we are lacking.

Hopefully Joe Rothwell or Ben Pearson from Bournemouth

We’ve also scored the most in the league… have we been looking for signings in the wrong places?! Defensive midfielder and centre back needed as a priority IMO. With the quality of Jones and Giles crosses it really doesn’t matter who we’ve got up top, we’ll score goals. But Howson and Bola are really not good enough to be starting for us.

If we do replace Crooks in the starting XI I could still seeing him getting 5-10 goals for us from the bench, for all his flaws he certainly has a knack for goalscoring which is something that very few Boro midfielders have had for the last decade (Leadbitter, Robson, De Roon to an extent?) Probably our best goalscoring midfielder from open play for a very long while.

“Flying about” 🤔😉

Wrong manager mate.

I think we’re going to be very happy we didn’t jump the gun and go for Gayle and McGoldrick early on

Satisfied? I’d be ecstatic. Throw Watmore in there if we keep him and that’s a very good set of options.

Was probably on the “will try to sign if we sell Tav” list