Turkish Delight!

I know, cheesy title.



Following my post, the other day, about Boro making bids for Diomansy Kamara and Tuncay Sanli, more developments have emerged. The latter of the two front-men has agreed personal terms with the club, snubbing a deal with newly promoted Birmingham City.
The turkish striker will join the club, subject to him passing a medical exam and will be Gareth Southgate's 3rd signing of the summer, following the £7million signing of former Real Madrid defender and local lad, Jonathan Woodgate and the imminent arrival of pacey French forward Jeremie Aliadiere, from Arsenal.

Boro's attacking presence had dwindled since the end of the season following the releases of Malcolm Christie, Danny Graham and (Traitor) Mark Viduka, leaving only Yakubu, who was said to be unhappy at the club and South Korean Dong Gook Lee, both of whom have not scored goals in the last 3 months of the season. So the arrival of two new, pacey, forwards is beginning to inject excitement into the Boro faithful as pace and youth have not been traits that have been associated with Boro's strike force for quite some time. Finally a manager has come into the club who is prepared to make big sacrifices to change the team's appearance. Steve Mclaren vowed to change the way Boro played football and aimed to be more attacking but ended up failing in that, despite 2 hugely successful seasons in the UEFA cup. Now Gareth Southgate has come in and has immediately started getting rid of players that we don't need in order to improve and build a younger, faster squad. Although, that said, Middlesbrough do have one of the youngest squads in the premiership and are definitely one of, if not the, leading club when it comes down to breeding its own talent. Over the course of last season Boro fielded more than 13 home grown talents, some of which have become regular members of Southgate's first team, these included England winger Stewart Downing, Jonathan Woodgate, Stuart Parnaby, Andrew Taylor, Andrew Davies, James Morrison, Lee Cattermole and Adam Johnson