MIDDLESBROUGH have confirmed who will make up the core of Garry Monk’s backroom team at the Riverside Stadium.

Former Blackburn and Southampton striker James Beattie, a former Boro target during his playing days, has followed him from Elland Road and has been named a first team coach along with ex-Swansea coach David Adams.

Goalkeeper coach Daryl Flahavan, who was with Monk at Leeds, has been brought in along with two further additions with Sean Rush joining the club as head of physical performance and Ryan Needs coming in as head of performance analysis.

Intriguingly there has been no word on what the future hold for Steve Agnew, or whether he will or who will be Monk’s assistant manager. Agnew finished the season holding the managerial reins on Teesside.

Monk said: “It’s important as a manager that you build staff around you to work with you to deliver what is needed to be delivered.

“We have great experience together as a group – we’ve worked together for a good period – and they have a good understanding of what I expect and how we work together.

“As you go through your career, you’re consistently looking to refine and improve things and we’re all on that journey together.

“The guys have the skill sets that we need to be able to cover all bases and there’s also the importance of being able to rely on them with the responsibilities they will have.”

There has also been no mention of what will happen to Jonathan Woodgate, Leo Percovich and Paul Jenkins, who all finished last season as part of Agnew's backroom team.