Tim Walter makes key appointment as experienced coach leaves Hull City

Hull City have made another key appointment to Tim Walter's backroom staff just a day after his two assistant managers were confirmed.

Former QPR coach Erbil Bozkurt has been appointed City's new goalkeeping coach and will join Walter's backroom team with immediate effect, and will replace Barry Richardson, who moved on at the end of the season after six years in East Yorkshire.

Bozkurt is the final addition to Walter's inner circle with the 34-year-old, who is of Turkish descent having been born in London, joining Filip Tapalovic and Julian Hubner along with Andy Dawson.

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The former non-league player spent five years with QPR working his way up from the Under-21s to the senior fold at Loftus Road having worked with Leyton Orient and Boreham Wood before that switch to the West London outfit.

More recently, the stopper fondly referred to as 'Erbs' had been the goalkeeping coach at MK Dons having left Adams Park in June last year before linking up with Graham Alexander, but will now return to the Championship with the Tigers where he'll take on a goalkeeping group which includes Ivor Pandur, Matt Ingram, Thimothee Lo-Tutala and Harvey Cartwright.

Former Nottingham Forest, Doncaster and Peterborough coach Richardson had been with City since late January 2018 when he replaced Pat Mountain having left Wycombe Wanderers to move to the MKM Stadium.