MIDDLESBROUGH have confirmed the loan signing of Swansea defender Dwight Tiendalli until the end of the season.

The right-back, 29, will provide an experienced option in that position for remainder of the promotion run-in, having moved to the Liberty Stadium from Twente in September 2012.

He follows Fulham centre-back Fernando Amorebieta in arriving at the Riverside on loan for the rest of the campaign.

Boro are not expected to announce a further signing – despite interest in forwards – before the 5pm deadline for loan switches in the Football League.

But Middlesbrough have allowed Luke Williams to go to Peterborough until the end of the season and defender David Atkinson to head for Carlisle for a month.

Winger Mustapha Carayol has also been allowed to head for Brighton on loan for a month.