Left-back targeting team glory after a clean sweep of individual awards last season
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Ambitious George Friend believes Boro can write a glorious chapter in the history books over the coming campaign - and he wants to be there every step of the way.
Asked his targets for the new term, the lively left back set his sights high.
“I want to get promoted with Boro, simple as that,” he declared.
“I want to eclipse the number of games I’ve played this season.
“I want play every single minute of every single game and be part of a team that is successful and makes history by getting us back up there.”
The defender won a clean sweep of Boro’s player of the year gongs after a sizzling second half to last season.
Next term he want a bigger prize.
He has only had a brief and tantalising taste of the top flight making his debut for Wolves away to Manchester United at Old Trafford as a teenager
“I’ve had one appearance in the Premier League and it’s made me hungry for more,” said Friend, who joined from Doncaster last summer.
“I just want to be there with Boro because this club’s ready for it.
“I want to be part of that team that gets back up.”
And he believes Boro have the basis of a side that can do just that.
“No one would have expected Burnley to get up there,” he said.
“Sean Dyche brought in a few key players, but man for man you probably wouldn’t have swapped their squad for ours at the start of the season. And look what they did.
“There’s a few other teams who reached the play-offs last season that we matched home and away so it was just frustrating that we weren’t up there with them.
“We need to learn from that and perform better against the lower teams to get there, which the likes of Derby and QPR have managed to do.
“We all have to improve as individuals to make that happen. Me too.
“I’ve had my ups and downs last season. I had some poor performances.
“But if we can all improve as individuals and as a team and if we can turn a few of those frustrating draws into wins, then I’m convinced we will be right up there.”
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