Downing should commit himself to the club for the rest of this season and make it clear he will leave if the team does not perform better and end up in a Euro qualifying position. He has been unsettled for 2 seasons and needs a bigger better club to move to the next stage of his career. He has served his time at Boro and while it would be good if he stayed, life is not that easy.

boro are fighting a losing cause as soon as a player wants to leave its the end there is no point in trying to stop them and lets be honest why would dowing wnat to say boro are a no were club

Spurs will not be a good move for Stuart Downing. Lets hope he sticks it out until the end of the season and maybe a bigger club might come in for him.

TEVEZ IS AN ILLEGAL PLAYER AND SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING IN OUR COUNTRY. HE IS STILL OWNED BY A THIRD PARTY (THE REASON WEST HAM/SHEFF UTD HAVE GONE TO COURT). THE PREMIER LEAGUE HAVE SWEPT THE PROBLEM UNDER THE CARPET BY ALLOWING UTD TO "SIGN" A £30M PLAYER ON A LOAN, AND BECAUSE THE WHOLE FOOTBALL WORLD REVOLVES AROUND THE SELF PROCLAIMED(HOW ARROGANT) BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD, NO REAL QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ASKED. TELL ME WHAT IS DIFFERENT BETWEEN THIS SITUATION AND THE SAME SCENARIO AT WEST HAM - CORRECT - NOTHING IS DIFFERENT APART FROM THE TEAM INVOLVED. THE PREMIER LEAGUE IS IN THE POCKET OF SIR ALEX AND UNITED, THE ABOVE SITUATION PROVES IT BEYOND DOUBT. TEVEZ HELPED UNITED TO A LEAGUE AND EURO CUP DOUBLE, THAT SHOULD ALWAYS BE TAINTED BECAUSE THEY HAVE PLAYED AN ILLEGAL PLAYER. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, THE RULES IN THIS COUNTRY STATE HE SHOULD NOT BE PLAYING HERE, YET NO ONES SEEMS THE SLIGHTEST BIT INTERESTED. IGNORE THIS AND YOU ARE NOT DOING YOUR PART TO PROTECT FOOTBALL. IT IS UP TO ALL OF US TO "WATCH OVER" FOOTBALL, BECAUSE THESE DAYS THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE ARE JUST HERE TO TAKE WHAT THEY CAN. THE GAME IN OTHER COUNTRIES HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BEYOND BELIEF (BETTING SCANDALS AND THE REFEREES SCANDAL IN ITALY) AND WE ARE GOING IN THE SAME DIRECTION. DONT COMPLAIN IN FIVE YEARS WHEN THE PREMIER LEAGUE HAVE BASTARDISED OUR SPORT EVEN MORE.

My real issue here is the astronomical fee for a lad who appears no more than a bit nippy and has a "decent" left foot. He aint no where near as good as Ashley Young (for example) and people talking about £15M. Good luck to any club who pay that for him- and if boro can get it now they should take it. Also, i am not a boro fan, but am i not right in thinking you already have a lad in the reserves who plays this position, and is rumoured to look at least as good as Downing was at that age. Sell for good money, bring in the new bloke, move on.....

just for the record look back on the last previous finals and see who were in the CC final................all the top 4 were in them. So so much for a mickey mouse cup then!!
Only teams who are worried about not being relegated or happy for mid table survival do not bother with it, so much for ambition in your clubs.
I think if you fans are happy with that,its no wonder teams like spurs will try and buy your best players!!
Remember Downing wants to go because he feels your club has no genuine ambition to match his!!

i dont think stewie should go not to tottenham anyway he's just going to a worse team, if anything wait till end of season before making a decision, if anything gareth southgate should be buyin players to improve the side if he doesn't buy this month and improve then i wouldn't blame stewie leaving but he'd be mad to go to spurs, infact liverpool were mad not to sign him as he's improving all the time, and he should be in the ENGLAND squad all the time he's the best for that posistion

@86 - he signed on the understanding there would be significant player investment, which hasn't happened. The mistake he made was not getting a clause put into the contract based upon this understanding.

If a player wants to leave, let him go I say. Borough aren't ever going to be a force in the PL and there is no point keeping a player who doesn't want to play for you.

Cash in and buy someone who does.

Oh and why did he signed a five year contract in February. Now that some other teams are showing interest suddenly Boro is bad for him. And he is not alone. There are other Downings up and down the country who are waiting to be better than their clubs at the first instance that another "big" club show any interest in them.

spurs went crying to fa when liverpool went after keane so it ok for them to do

rooney stands on a player at old trafford but ok for you w--kers so when someone doz to you cry f--king soft @#$%

Geoff B, U really make me laugh..
Maybe u have some brain issue, let me remind u, Spurs finished 11 last season, and this season... hahah... u can read the table your own.
And League Cup? Come on.. Everyone know League Cup is just a Micky Mouse Cup. None of top 4 even care about it.
At least Boro played at UEFA Cup final. Spurs was knocked out at the last 16.
u said "made the semis of every other cup as well"??? Get Real!!!

Sam comment 84 you are an idiot, Spurs have not "fought" relegation in the past few seasons! They have finished 5th for the last 2 years and won the League Cup and made the semis of every other cup as well. If you can't see the difference between Spurs and Boro you are not qualified to comment on other posts.

Lets face it. Boro fan here. Downing has done his time here has been a faithful servant, he's better than boro. he aint gonna sell himself to an under acheiving club like spurs. top 5 come in for him he'll go. Sorry reason he's not gone spurs in the last three years s because spurs aint acheived nothing for years, there just another also ran, infact, they been close to relegation for the last couple of years, the lad need to see a future. and yeah he can play. I seen people slag him of here in posts, have they really watched him play.

He's qualit, but players should get there way in regards to this, as he wants to move his career on, southgate should be happy to help him on his way. And stop the arguments onhere, ii come on to read about football not peoples inbreds whatsits.

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I can't see Spurs have any different, they are also a team which fought for relegation last few seasons.
Plus, they always over-estimate themselves, every season they always talk about "we target Euro football", so? They got nothing more than a big mouth.

Middlesbrough have players to replace him and why not let him go for 11 million

Downing just wants to play for a better club coz Middlesbrough have been struggling last few seasons

why bloke the move. If he don't want to play for us then let him go. He'll just go through the motions on the pitch now and won't give a @#$%