How former Sunderland academy player Sam Greenwood has fared at Middlesbrough

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00:00 bit about Sam Greenwood, who was at Sunderland as an under-21s player, was then sold by the

00:06 club. He's now contracted to Leeds but joined Middlesbrough on loan in the summer. And he

00:10 was speaking earlier this week about how his whole family and all his friends are Sunderland

00:14 fans, but he's fully obviously committed to Middlesbrough and getting the results for

00:18 them. He made his first start, didn't he, against Cardiff in midweek. So how has he

00:23 kind of fared since moving to Middlesbrough?

00:25 Yes, I think it's been interesting. Carrick spoke a bit about him yesterday and he had

00:30 an injury in pre-season, which meant he didn't really have much of a pre-season at Leeds.

00:35 So he joined Middlesbrough, I think it was the last week of the transfer window. Obviously,

00:40 the season already started by then. He's had to do a bit of kind of catching up in terms

00:44 of fitness and match sharpness. So until Tuesday night when he made his first start, we'd seen

00:50 him make four sub appearances, but they were always quite late in games and at times when

00:57 the game was kind of going in a direction where there wasn't much happening anymore

01:01 and therefore he didn't really ever get a chance to show much of what he's able to do.