Yakubu: ’Boro are going places

AIYEGBENI YAKUBU is convinced he is heading for the top after one of football’s worst-kept secrets finally came to light yesterday.

Yakubu is understood to have signed a five-year contract with Middlesbrough after the Teesside club agreed a fee of £6.5m with Portsmouth for the services of the 22-year-old striker.

The Nigeria international will officially join Boro on July 1, and is already eager to start work at The Riverside and add to his impressive goalscoring record in the Barclays Premiership after netting 43 goals in 92 appearances for Pompey.