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Boro are ready to offer George Friend a new deal to head off interest from would-be suitors.
The marauding left-back has been linked with interest from Premier League clubs QPR and Crystal Palace.
A storming second half of last season and a fine opening day display against Birmingham has caught the eye of several top flight sides.
But Boro chiefs have emphatically said that Friend is not for sale.
They, and Aitor Karanka, see him as integral to Boro’s promotion push this term.
He has played 93 times and scored three goals and become a first team fixture since his switch to the Riverside.
But the defender, a £100,000 signing from Doncaster in July 2012, has just one year left on his contract so his future needs resolving.
And chairman Steve Gibson plans to sit down with popular Friend to discuss an improved new deal as soon as the distractions of the transfer window are ended.
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