Player Profile: Middlesbrough midfielder Finn Azaz
By Chris Dunlavy
Finn Azaz has plenty of laudable qualities. A sturdy 6ft 1ins frame. Sound technique. A penchant for long-range screamers. But it’s upstairs where he really excels.
As a teenager, he emerged from King Edward’s School in Birmingham with nine A* grades at GCSE, despite training in West Brom’s academy five times a week.
As a burgeoning midfield schemer, he wowed a succession of coaches, both in his youth team days at the Hawthorns and later at loan clubs in the EFL.
“Finn is probably the most intelligent footballer, away from fo...