Euell completes Boro switch
Five years after he joined the Addicks for a fee that remains a club record, Jason Euell left Charlton for Middlesbrough on Wednesday.
Boro boss Gareth Southgate will pay up to £300,000 to secure the services of the midfielder-cum-striker - the first sale of the Iain Dowie era.
The 29-year-old played no part in any of the squads for the first three matches of the season under Dowie and has been allowed to leave The Valley.
But despite reports the deal was completed on Tuesday night, the official papers were not signed until Wednesday afternoon.
Euell was purchased by former Charlton manager Alan Curbishley from Wimbledon for £4.75m in 2001, and was top scorer in his first three seasons with the club.
His feat in the third campaign was all the more impressive following a positional switch that saw him take up an attacking midfield role.
But a sending off against Manchester United in September 2003 and the subsequent signing of Danny Murphy, not to mention a shift in formation to a five-man central midfield, saw his first-team opportunities diminish.
Arguably Charlton's best player, alongside the emerging Scott Parker, until that red card at The Valley, Euell was named as the supporters' club player of the year runner-up in 2003.
He looked close to leaving for Birmingham City last August only to suffer a dislocated shoulder in a pre-season friendly.
And despite 37 goals in 155 appearances for the club, the Jamaica international, who picked up his third cap against England in June, did not feature in Curbishley's matchday squad during 2005/06 until February.
Lambeth-born Euell started his first game in 14 months when the Addicks played Arsenal in mid-March and his first goal for 17 months followed against Fulham at Craven Cottage in April.
But although a changing regime promised a fresh start, the arrival of nine summer signings under Dowie saw Euell seek pastures new just hours before the end of the August transfer window.
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