Now that he has successfully severed ties with footballing leech Hara-Kiri Kewell, Liverpool gaffer Rafa B is apparently after someone to fill his lazy antipodean loafing boots.

Middlesbrough winger Stewart Downing has signed a new 5-year contract with the club and reveals that he is glad to have done so. The 23-year old England international’s future at the Riverside was in doubt when he drafted in a transfer request through his agent in January but Boro manager Gareth Southgate stopped him from […]

Middlesbrough winger Stewart Downing signed a new five-year contract with his hometown club on Friday after a month of wrangling and disputes. But if you listen to the 23-year old England international, you would be made to believe that the club and the player were never at hammer and tongs with each other.
Downing says:
This is […]

Middlesbrough supporters can now heave a sigh of relief while the likes of Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United need to draw out their hankies and dab at the corner of their eyes. Because England international winger Stewart Downing has signed a new 5-year contract with the club.
Sky Sports reports that Downing will now remain a […]

Middlesbrough winger Stewart Downing still hasn’t signed a contract extension with the Riverside club. Downing’s agent Ian Elliott reckons that he’ll see out the remaining two and a bit years of his contract and swan off to a swankier contract with a bigger club thank-you-very-much. However, Middlesbrough Chairman Steve Gibson and Manager Gareth […]

Middlesbrough’s Stewart Downing is a disgruntled figure at the Riverside but manager Gareth Southgate refuses to belieive it. According to Sky Sports, Southgate doesn’t want to sell the England winger even in the summer and sings praises of the youngster, saying:
”I don’t know how many times I have said it but I don’t think he […]

Where would newspapers be without Stewart Downing during the transfer window periods? The Middlesbrough winger is always good for lots of idle speculation regarding a move away from the Riverside, before deciding to stay put in the north-east. The Daily Mail report that this is likely to happen yet again in January, despite the conniving […]

It looks like Middlesbrough w(h)inger Stewart Downing is set for the Riverside exit door, despite Gareth Southgate telling him that he cannot leave.
The Daily Mail reports that Downing’s agent has hit out at all the tripe-ridden claims that his client accepts that he won’t be leaving the Riverside. Agent Ian Elliott said:
“Stewart’s made his position […]

Poor old Stewart Downing. Just when he thought that he would make a move away from the dampened Riverside, his employers have clogged him down. Sky Sports reports that the young England international has been told by his club Middlesbrough that he wouldn’t be allowed to leave this month.
Boro manager Gareth Southgate says:
Stewart is not […]

The Daily Mail today reports that Juande Ramos has sanctioned the sale of Darren Bent, but that Tottenham will seek to recoup the full £16.5m when they sell him. The Mail does then hurry on to say that this is pretty much a non-existent possibility - and they will listen to offers around […]