Chris Jones has created a promotional video that shows the facilities and local area to help sell the club and area to foreign signings and it's been a great help in convincing Strelec, Kante and Malanda.

Chris Jones was also the main pusher for Malanda, and Scott sounds really impressed by him.

We're starting to scout the Far East market, and they now have a list of players they like, so we may see some movement on that front in the future.

Was my name mentioned re Callum Brittain ?

Azaz's sale helped fund Strelec, Sene etc.

He made it clear he wanted to move on early, and confirms that part of the reason he wanted to leave was because he wasn't universally popular, sounds like Scott thought he was being overly sensitive over it even though he was surprised by some of the criticism for Azaz.

So sorry for doubting Humpty on that being a factor. 

Edited September 9, 2025Sep 9 by TeaCider24

Said we’d have signed Strelec regardless of if Azaz stayed or left. Scott convinced Gibson. 

Some great insight, cheers guys! 

11 minutes ago, Nobby Barnes said:

Was my name mentioned re Callum Brittain ?

He did mention that he's blocked a certain Boro fan who keeps sending him information he was already aware of.

3 minutes ago, BoroSmoggie said:

Said we’d have signed Strelec regardless of if Azaz stayed or left. Scott convinced Gibson. 

Good on him to take that on. Risky one if it were to go poorly, here's hoping he doesn't do a warnock and blame someone else if it does!

3 hours ago, TeaCider24 said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/09/09/steve-cooper-championship-jobs-brondby-denmark-manager/

Steve Cooper has joined Brondby.

Horrible club he’s joined. Hope he fails miserably. 

1 hour ago, BoroSmoggie said:

21’s on YouTube tonight. 7pm KO. Lenihan, Edmundson and Hamilton playing 

The mess up for the equaliser in the last minute (around the 42 min mark) was awful defending. Wasn't paying attention to which players it was. But my god - if that was either of the 2 senior players...

Just looked back at it - McCormick and Lenihan. 

Edited September 9, 2025Sep 9 by Tony

1 minute ago, Tony said:

The mess up for the equaliser in the last minute was awful defending. Wasn't paying attention to which players it was. But my god - if that was either of the 2 senior players...

It's 1-1 Sonny Finch for Boro

Really enjoyed Scott’s interview. He provided a lot on insight into the main topics over the summer 

Spence gets his England cap, kerching.

6 minutes ago, TeaCider24 said:

Spence gets his England cap, kerching.

Do we know how much we are due? Good news nevertheless. 

7 minutes ago, TeaCider24 said:

Spence gets his England cap, kerching.

I'm sure I read recently it's 2 caps and they said if he plays in the 2 games it would trigger a clause for us.

1 minute ago, Borodane said:

Do we know how much we are due? Good news nevertheless. 

£2.5m of England related add-ons, but no indication of the breakdown, be a bit of a surprise if all of that was related to 1 cap.