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Danny Coyne and Mark Yeates or Afonso Alves and Mido. Which type of player do you want at your club? Our newest recruits are not names regularly featured in the headlines, which is in stark contrast with big money signings of previous seasons who have again been in the press for all the wrong reasons.
After joining the club, Coyne and Yeates spoke of their hunger to come and play for Middlesbrough. They seem genuinely thrilled to be coming to the Riverside, almost as if was a privilege for them to join a club recently relegated from the Premier League. Alves and Mido, meanwhile, were so excited for the new season they just didn't bother turning up for training.
If Alves and Mido don't want to be here, the Club should do everything they can to hasten their exit. And if that means taking a financial hit, it could well be worth it in the long term. The main aim should be ridding the dressing room of poisonous players who don't share the ambition of Coyne and Yeates.
Steve Gibson must be more disgusted than anyone. The Chairman who played a key role in saving this Club from extinction is now paying obscene wages to players who don't feel it necessary to show up for work.
Of course the players will be fined the maximum their contracts will allow but now is the time for Gareth Southgate to go further than that. The manager needs to show some authority, be firm and show the rest of the squad that indiscipline will not be tolerated. Southgate is in desperate need of credibility: now more than ever he needs to show he is the boss.
Any player in the squad who thinks he is too good for the Championship should be politely reminded that they bear ultimate responsibility for the Club's standing. There were no standout players last season; no player was consistent enough to be exonerated from blame.
If we are to succeed in the Championship we will need more players with a reassuring air of austerity around them: give me grit and graft over glitz and glamour every time. We need players with enthusiasm, not unjustified arrogance.
Saying goodbye to the household names isn't necessarily a bad thing.