Neil Warnock has agreed to remain Middlesbrough manager
next season after helping the Championship club win their battle to avoid
relegation.
Warnock took over from the sacked Jonathan Woodgate in
June with Middlesbrough in danger of slipping into League One.
But the 71-year-old won four of his eight games in charge
to keep the club in the second tier.
“Neil Warnock is to stay on as Boro manager and will
lead the club in the 2020/21 season,” Middlesbrough said in a statement on
Tuesday.
Warnock held talks with Middlesbrough chairman Steve
Gibson after their Championship status was secured.
He left Cardiff last year but Gibson persuaded him to stay
at the 17th club of his long managerial career.
“Neil will be with us next season and he’s busy
already,” Gibson told BBC Radio Tees Sport.
“He said he was going to take a week off down in
Cornwall and switch his phone off. I wish he had because he’s on the phone to
me every 10 minutes!”
Warnock’s
assistants Kevin Blackwell and Ronnie Jepson will form part of the new
management team at the Riverside Stadium next season.
