Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson is excited with the new team manager Gareth Southgate is building.

Gibson said: "As a team, as a squad and as a club we are moving forward and making progress.

"It is absolutely vital that we stay in the League but I believe we will. Nothing is certain in football but we have enough talent to survive.

"With two years experience behind him and with a bit more support in the transfer market this close season, we could have something very special going on here.

"Gareth is such a young man and such a decent man that you want him to succeed and flourish but there is far more to him as a manager than that.

"I see the work he puts in every week and I know too how much pressure there is at a football club when you are not winning games every week. Gareth has never panicked, he has looked at every situation very coolly and done what has needed to be done."