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Boro boss Aitor Karanka doesn’t want the Premier League pound signs to dazzle people in the build up to the Brighton clash.

He prefers to look to the assets at Boro that money can’t buy.

Boro will be promoted to the big time if they win or draw in the final game of a dramatic Championship chase while only victory will do for the Seagulls.

In effect the game is a pre-play-off showdown and is being built up as a battle for football’s Golden Ticket with promotion worth a minimum of £170m.

But Boro head coach Karanka thinks the ching of the till is a distraction and prefers to concentrate on more valuable qualities.

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“Sometimes it is very hard to prepare when everyone is speaking about the money or how important and how much it is worth to be in the Premier League,” said the gaffer.

“I have more things to think about than the money as I prepare for the game.

“Some things money can’t buy. For example the work that the players have been doing every week since we assembled in Marbella 10 months ago.

“There are amazing things at this club money can’t buy; the emotions, the spirit happiness to our crowd - it is amazing, the money and time fans are spending to support us and encourage us in every single game.

“The team and the club and the supporters are in a great moment and it can get better.

“We all have to do our best. The crowd is doing that, the players are doing that and all we have to keep going.”