Defender Danny Mills has joined Middlesbrough from Leeds United on loan for the season, the English premier league club has confirmed.
The 26-year-old right back, who began his career at NorwichCity and joined Leeds from Charlton Athletic in 1999, is thesecond major loan deal for Middlesbrough in four days.
Boro also secured Spanish international midfielder GaizkaMendieta on loan from Lazio of Italy for a year with the optionof a permanent transfer.
Mills, who has 17 caps, played in all England's matches atthe World Cup in Asia last year and is in coach Sven-GoranEriksson's Euro 2004 qualifying squad. He came on as asubstitute in England's 3-1 win over Croatia in a friendlyinternational last Wednesday.