MIDDLESBROUGH will hold a second round of talks with out-of-contract striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake next month after an initial discussion proved productive.

Tony Mowbray is monitoring a number of overseas targets in an attempt to secure the best deals possible this summer.

However, he is not ignoring the domestic market and Ebanks-Blake is one of a handful of cut-price players interesting the Boro boss as he looks to overhaul the squad that slumped to 16th position in the second half of last season.

While Ebanks-Blake's Wolves contract does not officially expire until the end of next month, he has already been informed he will not be getting a new deal following the Molineux club's relegation into League One.

The 27-year-old former Manchester United trainee scored 15 goals as Wolves tumbled out of the second tier last season, and boasts 88 senior goals in a career that has also seen him spend two years with Plymouth.

Unsurprisingly, given his pedigree, he is interesting a large number of Championship clubs, with Reading, Ipswich Town and Leeds United also having made contact with his representatives.

However, Boro are satisfied with their initial discussions and are hoping to speak to Ebanks-Blake again when he returns from a holiday next month.

The Teessiders will not be willing to match the wages the striker was earning in the Black Country, but with the Football League's Financial Fair Play regulations due to come into force next season, it is extremely unlikely that any of their rivals will be able to trump their intended offer by a significant margin.

With Ishmael Miller having left at the end of his loan deal, there is space in the Boro squad for at least one striker, and Mowbray is determined to enhance his side's goal threat, having identified a lack of goals as a key factor in their slump in the second half of last season.

Meanwhile, former Boro striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has been appointed as the new manager of Belgian club Royal Antwerp. Hasselbaink was previously part of Steve McClaren's backroom staff at Nottingham Forest.