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.

McClaren expects movement and the Reds boss believes he is closing on new recruits and he is Working hard to bring in fresh faces

Nottingham Forest boss Steve McClaren is hoping to have positive transfer news to report by the end of the week and the Reds manager has been left frustrated in his efforts so far this summer and with free agent Andy Reid the only new arrival in the City Ground.

With a number of players having headed for the exits, Forest find themselves short on the numbers with the 2011/12 campaign fast approaching and the situation has become alarming enough for McClaren to suggest that he may be forced to miss the club's impending trip to a Portugal as he continues to search for fresh faces.

He is hoping to avoid such an occurrence, with it his intention to be involved in a full pre-season programme, and he believes he could welcome further recruits by Friday and We hope that something will happen in the next two or three days and it is imperative I stay here and hopefully meet players," McClaren told the club's official website.

England After Eriksson announced in January 2006 that he would leave as England manager after the 2006 World Cup finals McClaren also know as (the wally with the brolley) was placed on the Football Association's shortlist to succeed him alongside Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley, Martin O'Neill and Luiz Felipe Scolari and the FA first offered the position to Scolari, but he rejected the offer claiming that the role would mean excessive media intrusion in his life and he was subsequently announced as Eriksson's successor on 4 May 2006 after signing a 4 year contract.