Boro close to signing Yeates

Middlesbrough have agreed an undisclosed fee with Colchester for winger Mark Yeates.

The Teessiders hope to conclude a deal for the 24-year-old Dubliner within the next 48 hours.

Yeates, who it is understood would cost in the region of £500,000, has been at the club’s Rockliffe Park training headquarters for a medical and to discuss personal terms.