Thursday, July 21, 2011

George Boateng to join Hasselbaink at Nottingham Forest have confirmed the appointment.

Nottingham Forest have confirmed the appointment of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink as first-team coach and are also set to wrap up the signing of George Boateng and the Former Chelsea striker Hasselbaink, 39, has now put pen to paper but midfielder Boateng, 35, still needs to pass a medical before his move is finalised.

Former Netherlands international Boateng has a wealth of Premier League experience having played 14 consecutive seasons in the England's top flight Boateng first joined Coventry and has also played for Aston Villa and Hull as well as Boro and he was at Skoda Xanthi in Greece last season and has been training with Forest.

Hasselbaink enjoyed a goal laden career in England most of the notably with Chelsea where he scored 88 goals during a 4 season stint from 2000 to 2004 and Hasslebaink retired in 2008 and had a spell working as part of McClaren's coaching team while the former England boss was FC Twente boss.

Club career for a Born in Nkawkaw, Ghana, after playing 70 games for Dutch giants Feyenoord Rotterdam, Boateng completed a £220,000 move to a Coventry City in 1998 and Under the management of Gordon Strachan and he proved himself to be a solid defensive midfielder for helping the attacking Dublin Huckerby Coventry side of 1998 finish eleventh in a Premier League and enjoy mid table stability.

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