Hull City's manager, Phil Brown, is set to complete the signing of Middlesbrough's midfielder George Boateng after the experienced Dutchman agreed terms on a two-year-contract. The 32-year-old, who will have a medical on Monday, had become disillusioned with life at The Riverside after six seasons and clashed with the manager, Gareth Southgate, last season over his increasingly peripheral role in the side. Although the two former team-mates were eventually reconciled, Boateng knew he would struggle to force his way into the side following the £3m signing of the French midfielder, Didier Digard, from Paris St-Germain.