{"id":605800,"date":"2026-09-04T16:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/605800\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:08:16","slug":"morgan-whittaker-middlesbrough-forward-joins-colorado-rapids-in-mls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/605800\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Whittaker: Middlesbrough forward joins Colorado Rapids in MLS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Whittaker has left Middlesbrough to sign for MLS side Colorado Rapids.<\/p>\n

Whittaker, 25, joined Boro in January 2025 for \u00a35m<\/a> from Plymouth Argyle and scored 14 goals in 66 games.<\/p>\n

He ended last season as Boro’s top scorer, but the forward has now left for the United States for an undisclosed fee on a three-year contract, with the MLS club holding the option for a further year.<\/p>\n

He will take up one of the Designated Player slots at the Rapids, who are seventh in the Western Conference and managed by Englishman Matt Wells.<\/p>\n

Whittaker had played five games for Boro this season, including starting all three Championship matches up to the win against West Bromwich Albion on 29 August.<\/p>\n

Boro have brought in 12 new players this summer, including on-loan Brighton winger Amario Cozier-Duberry,<\/a> who was signed on deadline day.<\/p>\n

Whittaker moved to the Riverside halfway through the 2024-25 season, with Middlesbrough having fought off competition to sign him.<\/p>\n

But he failed to score in any of the 16 matches he played as Michael Carrick’s side fell out of play-off contention on the final day of the season.<\/p>\n

That drought stretched to 25 games and he was cheered off the field in one match at Preston North End when he was substituted.<\/p>\n

He broke his duck in a win over Ipswich Town and proceeded to score eight times in 12 games, including a run of finding the net in six consecutive matches.<\/p>\n

He ended as Boro’s top scorer for the campaign as their hopes of Premier League football were dashed in the play-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morgan Whittaker has left Middlesbrough to sign for MLS side Colorado Rapids. Whittaker, 25, joined Boro in January…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-605800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}