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Alex Gilbert - Sept 2025 still at Middlesbrough

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  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,658
    Playing as a cdm 
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,463
    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: 2,337
    edited December 2025
    PTSD
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 67,418
    https://x.com/bbcteessport/status/1997077042219692397?s=46&t=ynww82GMl7VKBjthBflU0g
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 2,741
    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: 28,829
    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: 39,531
    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: 173
    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: 28,829
    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: 2,579
    If he was willing to come on the cheap, I would have him all day long! 

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  • wolfgang
    wolfgang Posts: 1,282
    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: 386
    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: 1,204
    edited August 7
    Docherty and Coventry kept him out the side in our promotion season didn't they?
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 15,213
    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: 173
    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: 1,282
    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: 18,059
    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: 39,531
    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: 173
    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: 386
    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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  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 24,795
    Signed for Leyton Orient today
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 8,098
    sam3110 said:
    Signed for Leyton Orient today
    Vile signing and announcement video 
  • tallboy
    tallboy Posts: 173
    Likely to be a very good signing for Orient. Since we played them in the play off final and after last seasons poor showing they have had a huge turnover in players. However, they seem to be building a formidable squad again The young kid on loan from Spurs, Akhamrich looks particularly good.
  • SteveACS
    SteveACS Posts: 758
    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?
    Similar to JRC. Something we don't need.
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 2,741

    Nice of the bbc to mention us
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 2,741
    Pelling1993 said:
    sam3110 said:
    Signed for Leyton Orient today
    Vile signing and announcement video 

    Basically a reworking of that Charlton one
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,855
    I always thought he was a bit average but he did have a very good game for Boro last year against us
  • tallboy
    tallboy Posts: 173
    edited September 4
    SteveACS 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?
    Similar to JRC. Something we don't need.
    You do realise that I suggested Gilbert for CAFC one month ago when we hadnt signed hardly anybody and appeared to have no money to spend i.e. the owners of CAFC were appealing for funding? and they say a week is a long time in Politics, well in Football a month is a life time!
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 33,381
    Didn’t we play Orient once?
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 22,813
    se9addick said:
    Didn’t we play Orient once?
    Don’t think so. Feel like we’d all remember that 

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