{"id":843731,"date":"2025-04-26T13:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/middlesbrough-striker-lauds-kelechi-iheanachos-dressing-room-effect\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T13:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:12:03","slug":"middlesbrough-striker-lauds-kelechi-iheanachos-dressing-room-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/middlesbrough-striker-lauds-kelechi-iheanachos-dressing-room-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough striker lauds Kelechi Iheanacho\u2019s dressing room effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Middlesbrough and Scotland striker, Tommy Conway, has spoken very highly of Super Eagles forward, Kelechi Iheanacho, lauding his dressing room impact, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old joined Boro from Sevilla in February, and after a struggling start, the former Leicester City man is getting into his stride.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Middlesbrough\u2019s game against Norwich City tomorrow, Conway revealed the signing of Iheanacho has lifted the dressing room.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/imago1061275881-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158325\">Michael Smith of Sheffield Wednesday and Kelechi Iheanacho after the Sky Bet Championship match, Sheffield Wednesday vs Middlesbrough. 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[Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been great, Kel, from the moment he got here. What you guys and the fans don\u2019t see is the energy he brings into the dressing room every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s always thinking positively, he\u2019s always there to speak to and offer advice. When you consider his experience and his time in the Premier League and what he\u2019s achieved in the game, it\u2019s amazing for someone like me to have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a person you respect naturally. He\u2019s a joy to play with, and he\u2019s a joy to share the changing room with as well. He\u2019s a big character. From the day he walked in, he took to it like a duck to water, and everyone took to him as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCredit to him for that, he\u2019s really bought in. I hope he can have a big impact in the remaining games, as I believe he has done already,\u201d Tommy Conway said about Iheanacho in quotes revealed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/tommy-conway-middlesbrough-kelechi-iheanacho-31493912.amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gazzette Live<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_153754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153754\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/imago1058916378-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153754\">Kelechi Iheanacho during the Sky Bet Championship match between Middlesbrough and Watford at the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough, on February 15, 2025. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Middlesbrough are three points outside of the Championship playoff places. They have the opportunity of claim a play-off spot if they defeat Norwich tomorrow, and Coventry next Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/04\/middlesbrough-iheanacho-conway.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Adefolahan Guerreiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Middlesbrough and Scotland striker, Tommy Conway, has spoken very highly of Super Eagles forward, Kelechi Iheanacho, lauding his dressing room impact, Soccernet.ng reports. The 28-year-old joined Boro from Sevilla in February, and after a struggling start, the former Leicester City man is getting into his stride. Ahead of Middlesbrough\u2019s game against Norwich City tomorrow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":843732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105114,2005,25945],"tags":[105113,64321],"class_list":{"0":"post-843731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-middlesbrough","8":"category-soccer","9":"category-striker","10":"tag-middlesbrough","11":"tag-striker"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}