Boro are monitoring Galway United's 20-year-old Irish winger Jay O'Shea but reports that he's on the verge of joining the club are wide of the mark.

Gareth Southgate: “He’s a player we’ve had a look at but at the moment our priority is players who are going to go straight into our first team.

“Our reports are good on him but it’s not something we are able to do at the moment.”