ANY football manager's aim is to hit the ground running when they take on a new role at a new club. 

For Chris Wilder says he and the team will ‘dare to dream’ and promotion to the Premier League has to be the ambition of him and his Middlesbrough players.

Wilder, 54, officially took charge yesterday and conducted his first training session with his new players to get a good look at them over the international break.

His first game in charge will be at home to Millwall on Saturday, November 20.

“I think we can achieve a successful football club and one that can get itself back into the Premier League” said Wilder.

“I’m not going to shy away from that. I’m not going to make any bold and ridiculous statements that we’re going to do it in the next six months but it’s got to be the ambition.

“That’s not disrespecting the Championship and the EFL because the EFL is a fabulous competition and the Championship is an incredibly tough division to get out of.

“We all want to get back to playing the likes of Liverpool and Manchester United and the other big guns. That has got to be the ambition for me and the staff.

“The players, why don’t they want to play at the highest level?

“Most importantly the supporters. They want to go to the Riverside, they want to see the big names coming and their Middlesbrough team taking on these big names.

“It’s a long way off at the moment but we dare to dream and we’ll be giving everything to try and make that dream happen.”

While Wilder has been thrust into the job, some glaring issues remain at Boro for promotion to become a reality.

After his sacking at the weekend, Neil Warnock claimed he didn’t have a say in the club’s recruitment policy while some say Wilder wanted complete control on transfers at his previous clubs.

But the 54-year-old insists he and the recruitment staff are singing from the same hymn sheet and he won’t have complete autonomy on transfers.

“I know there’s a lot of talk about me wanting to run everything. That’s nonsense” added Wilder.

“I just wanted to work with good people who had the same vision and ideas and ethics of how I see a football club running.

“Steve (Gibson) and Kieran Scott and Neil Bausor were all on the same page. They’re just titles.

“Whether it’s the chief exec, chairman, they’re just titles. In terms of our relationship, the reason I’ve been chosen is because they like what I’ve done in the past and they like my work, whether it’s my personality, the way the team has played, there’s a reason why they wanted me.”