Middlesbrough transfer stance revealed on Liverpool youngster amid left-back search
Middlesbrough are continuing work to sign a left-back before next Friday’s transfer deadline, but Liverpool’s Owen Beck is not on their radar.
Reports from Scotland suggest Celtic wish to sign the 22-year-old after his impressive spell at Dundee last term. But the Daily Record claimed they faced competition from Boro and Leeds United as the Reds academy graduate looks for a new club for the new season.
While Boro remain active in trying to sign a new left-back before the transfer window closes, Beck is not understood to be a player they will be making a move for. Instead, they are said to be working to sign an alternative, unnamed left-back target and are trying to progress that deal.
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A new left-back wasn’t initially seen as a major priority for Boro this summer – though there were well-known attempts to try and bring Ryan Giles back to the Riverside. Initially, rather than a priority signing, that one was seen more as just looking to capitalise on his uncertain situation to
But when Alex Bangura suffered a serious Achilles injury which required surgery during pre-season, the importance of signing competition for Lukas Engel intensified. The Sierra Leone international is expected to miss a large portion of the campaign.
Boro do have impressive academy graduate George McCormick currently part of the first-team picture after an impressive pre-season campaign. But they would ideally like another senior option and are working on a particular target now having narrowed down their shortlist in the last week or
While hopes of re-signing Giles haven’t completely gone, Boro began to look at alternative targets earlier in the month as negotiations with Hull City weren’t moving forward as hoped. The current deal they’re working on isn’t believed to be Giles and while one more attempt to re-sign him can’t be completely ruled out at this stage, that one is very much on the backburner.
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