Middlesbrough will not encourage any loan offers for want-away winger Albert Adomah

Published on: 10 September 2015

Middlesbrough will not be encouraging any loan offers for Albert Adomah, with the winger having returned to training with the rest of the club’s first-team group on Wednesday.

Adomah looked to have played his final game for the Teessiders after a bust-up with head coach Aitor Karanka in the wake of last month’s home defeat to Bristol City resulted in his omission from the squad for the League Cup win at Burton Albion and the Championship success at Sheffield Wednesday.

The transfer window closed with him still a Middlesbrough player, but he was not involved in first-team training at the start of the week, and it was still anticipated that he would depart once the Football League loan window opened. Adomah rejected attempts to reintegrate him back into the fold ahead of the game at Hillsborough, and when he did not appear in South Yorkshire, the depth of the divide between the midfielder and the Boro hierarchy was readily apparent.

The loan window reopened yesterday, but despite interest from a number of Championship clubs including QPR and Nottingham Forest, the Boro hierarchy are extremely reluctant to allow Adomah to leave Teesside. Promoted stories

As a result, he was invited to join in with some training exercises on Tuesday, and took part in a full-blown session with the rest of the squad yesterday morning.

It remains to be seen whether he is named in the squad for this weekend’s home game with MK Dons, but while there is still disappointment at his conduct both before and after the Bristol City game last month, there appears to be a collective desire to draw a line under the matter and move on.

For all his perceived faults, Adomah remains a potentially valuable member of the first-team squad. He featured in all bar three of Boro’s Championship games last season, and has made five appearances in the current campaign despite his recent exile.

The deadline-day arrival of Carlos de Pena has added more competition in midfield, but Adomah’s natural fondness for a right-wing berth sets him apart from the majority of his team-mates and could help accelerate his reintegration into the fold.

Karanka will assess his returning international players this morning, but it already looks unlikely that Cristhian Stuani will be starting on Saturday after he played for Uruguay in Costa Rica in the early hours of yesterday morning. Stuani, who scored the only goal of the game as Uruguay beat Panama in a friendly on Friday night, was a second-half substitute as his side slipped to a 1-0 defeat to a Costa Rican line-up that was one of the surprise success stories of last summer’s World Cup.

Emilio Nsue suffered a frustrating few days as Equatorial Guinea’s planned friendly in Kenya was postponed because the squad couldn’t get a flight. Nsue was part of the Equatorial Guinea squad that suffered a shock defeat to the world’s newest nation, South Sudan, on Saturday.

Credit: Northern Echo

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