MILLWALL boss Neil Harris revealed Josh Coburn had been on his radar since the striker’s time on loan at Bristol Rovers in 2022-23.
The Lions signed Coburn, 21, on deadline day and he scored on his debut 24 hours later, tapping in the first at the Cold Blow Lane end as Millwall beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-0 at The Den.
Coburn made his Middlesbrough debut in 2021 and a year later went on loan to the Gas, where he scored 10 goals in 27 League One starts.
Coburn scored five goals in 25 appearances last season for Boro and one goal in four games this season before his move to SE16.
“He’s everything you’d want in a No.9,” Harris said. “I saw Josh a couple of years ago. He played for Bristol Rovers at the end of lockdown. I was Cardiff manager at the time and he was outstanding.
“He was such a threat. You could play up to him, he could physically beat defenders up, in the nicest possible sense. He could run forward and what really impressed me was he knew how to score a goal.
“That’s why we’ve chased him all summer. It’s so important that we have an identity as a football club and the best Millwall teams have had a No.9 leading the line that’s effective in different ways.
“Josh will bring so much to us as a team, as Richard Sadlier did, as Paul Moody did, as Steve Morison did for so long. He’ll bring the best out of so many players around him. He’s such a key singing for the football club.”
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