Adama Traore features: 3 August transfers Middlesbrough will want to emulate before Deadline Day | OneFootball

Boro will be hoping to make some strong additions to their squad before the transfer window shuts at the end of the month.

Middlesbrough have enjoyed a strong summer transfer window, adding quality and strength in depth to Michael Carrick's side, whilst also keeping hold of their star players.

Luke Ayling, Delano Burgzorg, Aidan Morris and Micah Hamilton have all made permanent moves to Boro this summer, with optimism of a strong season in prospect rife among supporters.

But Carrick and his recruitment team will not be sitting back and admiring their work, they will be working right up to the deadline at the end of the month for ways to further bolster their ranks.

Middlesbrough have made some quality signings in the month of August in recent years, so Football League World takes a look at three past deals that Boro should look to emulate this month.

Emmanuel Latte Lath

Signing a four-year deal from Serie A side Atalanta on the 15 August last year, Emmanuel Latte Lath has been the toast of Teesside ever since.

The 25-year-old Ivorian international has been a Riverside revelation over the last year, bagging 16 Championship goals in 30 appearances last term, and he's already on his way to perhaps an even greater tally this season.

Boro's number nine has been tasked with spearheading Middlesbrough's promotion charge in 2024/25, a task that he looks more than capable of completing.

Supporters will be hoping that is precisely what he does besides the obvious reason of wanting to see their club in the Premier League next season, because if they aren't, they may well have seen the last of him this year should he emulate his debut season.

Adama Traore

Seldom had Middlesbrough fans seen anything like him before he arrived, or indeed anything of his sort since he left. Adama Traore was gone in the blink of an eye, but his time on Teesside will never be forgotten for those lucky enough to catch a glimpse.

Brought to the club from Aston Villa just before the summer window of 2016 could slam shut, the former Barcelona came with a reputation of being a player who was extremely raw, but uniquely gifted.

So much so that he came off the Barcelona bench at 17 to replace Neymar, not many players, young or old, can see that they've done that. But after failing to hit the ground running at Villa Park, Middlesbrough found a diamond in the rough who's potential was just too good to not take a chance on.

Everyone associated with the football club would be thanking their lucky stars that they did, as for the following two seasons, he blew both defenders and supporters away with his track-level speed and Herculean strength.

Despite watching him from the stands, many would feel the instinct to scramble for their television remotes thinking they'd just fast-forwarded the action they were witnessing, as he thundered down the Riverside pitch like cavalry charges of old.

His five goals and 13 assists in 40 appearances in all competitions during the 2017/18 season was undoubtedly one of the finest individual seasons from a Middlesbrough winger in many a year, and ensured Premier League Wolves would activate his £18m release clause in the summer of 2018.

David Nugent

A striker who Boro fans could only hope had joined them five years prior, David Nugent is one of the finest marksmen the Championship has seen.

121 goals in 415 Championship appearances, former England international arrived at Middlesbrough from Leicester City on 14 August 2015, in a deal worth a reported £4m.

Without securing his signature that summer, there's every chance Aitor Karanka's Boro side would not have secured automatic promotion to the Premier League, as the then 30-year-old hitman scored and helped provide so many important goals over the course of the 2015/16 season.

An instant classic stoppage-time winner vs Hull City to send Boro back into the automatic promotion places in mid-March, a vital assist for a last minute Jordan Rhodes winner away at Bolton Wanderers, and putting it on a plate for Cristhian Stuani to score the goal that sent Middlesbrough back to the Premier League on the final day of the season.

Every time Boro needed him, he was there. A deadly finisher who played a huge role in delivering top-flight football, albeit only for a season.

Nugent would leave Teesside for a move to Derby County in January 2017, but the size of the impact he had during his short spell in the North East was such that he's still held in very high regard among the Middlesbrough faithful.