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Gibson - Young sale good business

Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson believes the sale of Luke Young to Aston Villa represents sensible business and assured fans a replacement will be recruited imminently.

Right-back Young joined Villa last week only a year after moving to Boro from Charlton but Gibson maintains the deal was "right" for the Teessiders in every respect.

Villa will pay £5.5million up front with a possible further £500,000 for the 29-year-old and Gibson told the club's website, www.mfc.co.uk: "Selling a 29-year-old full-back for £6million a year after we bought him for £2.5million, and doing so in the knowledge that we will replace him, is right for the football club in the short term, medium term and the long term."

He added: "We're already busy working on bringing in a replacement."

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