Middlesbrough need to improve if they want to win promotion from the Championship this season. Boro ended 2023/24 sat four points outside the play-off places – a disappointing result for Michael Carrick. The former Manchester United ace took the Teessiders to the play-off semi-finals the campaign prior after a fourth-place finish. But injury issues and the need to revamp Middlesbrough’s first-team squad after a mass exodus in the summer of 2023 greatly hampered the Teessiders. With all their key faces kept at the Riverside Stadium this summer, however, expectations were high going into 2024/25…