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​Monk announces Middlesbrough five-man backroom staff

Middlesbrough manager Garry Monk has announced a familiar backroom staff at his new club.

Ex-Southampton striker James Beattie and former Swansea City coach David Adams will serve as first team coaches, while Monk's goalkeeper coach at Leeds, Darryl Flahavan, has followed him to Teeside.

In addition, Sean Rush joins the club as head of physical performance and Ryan Needs fills the role of head of performance analysis.

All five members have worked with Monk at Swansea or Leeds.

"It's important as a manager that you build staff around you to work with you to deliver what is needed to be delivered," said Monk.

"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.

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