@simonfallaha - Promotion with Boro would give Sarmiento a magnificent hat-trick to look back on when his career comes to a close. We haven't seen much of him yet, although enough to see he is an energetic and tricky player who runs directly at the opposition - someone defenders wouldn't be too keen to face.
On the other hand the fact that he has been in two successful (hopefully soon to be three) promotion campaigns but, so far, appears not to have remained with those promoted clubs to join the fight to retain their newly-gained Premier League status, hints that he may be very effective at Champiosnhip level but is NOT considered a good bet in the Premier League.
https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/2026/march/02/match-review--birmingham-city-1-boro-3/
Scroll down to the pictures at the bottom of the article, did anyone else notice that Strelec was wearing a different shirt to the rest of the team, look at pictures 1 & 2 especially.
Come on BORO.
Good spot! Apparently Strelec is wearing the Boro U21 shirt as they can't have gambling sponsors - though if you look at photo number 15 where Strelec is stood behind Riley McGree and in front of Targett, he's wearing the Unibet shirt - so perhaps the kit man picked up the wrong shirt when he changed at HT?
Season 26/27 there will be no Easter Weekend fixtures as FIFA have moved the March International break to include March 28 (Easter Weekend) 😱.
Come on BORO.
@exmil - Never be surprised by ANY decison made by FIFA. The organisation is locked in a long-term competition with UEFA and the International Olympic Committee to determine which can demonstrate both the greatest corruption and greatest incompetence, and in a competition with Hollywood scriptwriters to discover which of them can elicit the most comments along the lines of "this plot is so far-fetched that nobody will believe it!"
The International Cricket Conference has put in an application to join the first competition to make it a Four-Entity contest, hoping to grow it (in the same way that the Rugby Championship started out as England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland but has since expanded).
We have an other loan promotion winner in the squad, Matt Targett was in the Fulham squad promoted in 2018 on loan from Southampton and played in the Play off final.
Holding On: Middlesbrough Maintain Remarkable Championship Record of Keeping Leads
Long may this continue. Up the Boro!