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Alex Gilbert - Sept 2025 still at Middlesbrough

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  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,656
    Playing as a cdm 
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,430
    Funny how managers see players so differently. He has all the vision to run the show from deep, but never played there before under any previous manager. Credit to their manager for being brave and smart. One thing seeing it, another thing doing it and working. 
  • fenlandaddick
    fenlandaddick Posts: 2,235
    edited December 2025
    PTSD
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 66,971
    https://x.com/bbcteessport/status/1997077042219692397?s=46&t=ynww82GMl7VKBjthBflU0g
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 2,723
    edited December 2025
    Got a goal and assist- ready for his return to the Valley on Tuesday then.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 28,442
    Offered something different to Doc and Coventry. Did a good job for us. Apparently not good enough to play in The Championship for us. 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 39,193
    The Red Robin said:
    Offered something different to Doc and Coventry. Did a good job for us. Apparently not good enough to play in The Championship for us. 
    We used him as an alternative to Berry though, and he did a job without standing out. In the summer I don’t think many said we should bring him back.

    Instead we signed Carey for that role, who so far has been our best signing. We have Knibbs and Fullah as options there too.

    Before last night, I don’t think anyone would have suggested signing Gilbert as competition for Coventry and Docherty.
  • tallboy
    tallboy Posts: 154
    edited August 7
    Is now without a club, made 22 appearances last year in a top 6 Championship side. Made a good impression when on loan with us in League 1 and aged only 24. Surely worth a punt?
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 28,442
    tallboy said:
    Is now without a club, made 22 appearances last year in a top 6 Championship side. Made a good impression when on loan with us in League 1 and aged only 24. Surely worth a punt?
    I liked him. I know lot don’t but he knows how to keep the ball better than anyone we have in midfield. Mildly creative too. 
  • cafc_se7
    cafc_se7 Posts: 2,544
    If he was willing to come on the cheap, I would have him all day long! 

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  • wolfgang
    wolfgang Posts: 983
    edited August 7
    The Red Robin said:
    tallboy said:
    Is now without a club, made 22 appearances last year in a top 6 Championship side. Made a good impression when on loan with us in League 1 and aged only 24. Surely worth a punt?
    I liked him. I know lot don’t but he knows how to keep the ball better than anyone we have in midfield. Mildly creative too. 
    I partly agree. Better than a couple of players in our first-team squad. I think he could be a good pick-up for some club, but he is not what we want right now and, as much discussed, we already have too many players, so no room for "punts".
  • Bod
    Bod Posts: 327
    Definitely worth a punt. If we are now shopping in Scope for players we could do a lot worse than Alex Gilbert. Get it done!!!!
  • Charlton and on
    Charlton and on Posts: 1,175
    edited August 7
    Docherty and Coventry kept him out the side in our promotion season didn't they?
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 14,816
    Charlton and on said:
    Docherty and Coventry kept him out the side in our promotion season didn't they?
    He occupied a different spot, after we gave up on playing Doc in the advanced role early in the season he was competing with Berry for that spot mostly.
  • tallboy
    tallboy Posts: 154
    edited August 7
    Charlton and on said:
    Docherty and Coventry kept him out the side in our promotion season didn't they?
    Made 14 appearances for us in 1/2 a season. But different sort of midfielder. Gilbert is more attack minded than Doc or Coventry.
  • wolfgang
    wolfgang Posts: 983
    Garrymanilow said:
    Charlton and on said:
    Docherty and Coventry kept him out the side in our promotion season didn't they?
    He occupied a different spot, after we gave up on playing Doc in the advanced role early in the season he was competing with Berry for that spot mostly.
    Yes. That was not the right spot for him. He is a quarterback, hitting longish passes from deep. We have Chalobah to do that now and hopefully Holsgrove. Better passing and ball control than our mob, but does not contribute enough defensively for NJ to consider him.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,905
    edited August 7
    I'd have taken him last summer as a bit of a project and a punt as a newly promoted team. Our priorities haven't changed that much, I guess, in that we are primarily focused on just staying up, but I think we need to be progressing a bit too. He was fine, but, also, he hardly stood out in our League One team. We all seem to be fairly unanimous that the midfield that got us out of League One isn't the midfield that will see us progress in the Championship - I feel like we need whoever comes into that "playmaker" role to be a step up. Maybe that's unrealistic, but I think we need to be more ambitious on this signing than we maybe have been with some of our other deals this summer. Gilbert would feel like a budget compromise type signing. 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 39,193
    edited August 7
    Would be a waste of a squad space - we have too many players as it is, and that’s before we sign the CM and RW that Jones wants to bring in.

    Need Asiimwe and Kanu to go, and without double checking the exact numbers, one or two more after that.

    Any further signings need to be pretty much guaranteed starters, not players who are worth a punt.
  • tallboy
    tallboy Posts: 154
    edited August 7
    "Gilbert would feel like a budget compromise type signing" Exiled_Addick

    I agree that Alex Gilbert would be exactly the above but I think that's the market we are shopping in now (following the ownership looking for extra finance news)
  • Bod
    Bod Posts: 327
    edited August 7
    tallboy said:
    Charlton and on said: exactly 
    Docherty and Coventry kept him out the side in our promotion season didn't they?
    Made 14 appearances for us in 1/2 a season. But different sort of midfielder. Gilbert is more attack minded than Doc or Coventry.
    Exactly.

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