Goalkeeper coach Alan Fettis joins new club after leaving Manchester United

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Alan Fettis' new club after leaving Manchester United has been revealed as Middlesbrough. United announced earlier in June that the goalkeeper coach would be leaving Carrington after taking up a new position as a first-team coach at a Championship side.

According to the Teeside Gazzette, that club is promotion hopefuls Middlesbrough, who finished just outside the playoffs last season.

Fettis will join Chris Wilder's first-team staff in the North East this week as he begins his new role. The former Northern Ireland international had been with United for more than 10 years.

He joined the club in 2011 after being appointed by former goalkeeping coach Eric Steele and Sir Alex Ferguson. ALSO READ: United manager Erik ten Hag targeting five signings in transfer window He initially began his stint in Manchester as an academy goalkeeper coach but worked his way up the ranks to train the Under-18s and then the Under-23s, while also being appointed as head of academy goalkeeping in 2018.