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NEW DEAL WORKS FOR BEN & BORO

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BEN GIBSON has signed a new five-year deal with Middlesbrough – but let’s not pretend that means he’ll be there in 2022.
Contracts mean nothing now. Just look at the Neymar situation. All Boro are doing is protecting their asset.
Bur nley did it with Michael Keane. Lewis Dunk has done it at Brighton.
Everyone at those clubs knew those players were a target and the contracts were a means of ensuring a fair price. It’s basically ‘If you want him, pay for him’. Gibson is a local lad who would never agitate for a move. Now Boro can basically say ‘If you...

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