Boro sign Spurs defender Phillips on five-year deal

Ashley Phillips has made the majority of his first-team appearances to date in a Stoke City shirt [Shutterstock]Middlesbrough have made Tottenham Hotspur defender Ashley Phillips their eighth signing of the summer on a five-year deal.The Manchester-born England Under-21 international, who began his career with Blackburn Rovers, stays in the Championship after separate loan spells with Stoke City, with whom he has made 83 of his 119 career appearances.Phillips, 21, has also played in the second t