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Head coach Aitor Karanka is expected back at Middlesbrough on Tuesday after a four-day absence and will have talks with the squad on his return. The Spaniards future was thrown into doubt after not being involved with the first team before and during the 2-0 defeat by Charlton on Sunday with assistant Steve Agnew taking charge as they fell seven points behind Championship leaders Burnley.Sky sources reported that Karanka stormed out of the clubs Rockliffe training ground on Friday and told players he no longer wanted to be their manager. On Monday evening, the club released a short statement saying Karanka would stay at the club. It is expected that Karanka will report back for duty on Tuesday. It is understood that the players were supposed to have the day off, but they will arrive for discussions with their head coach to try to resolve their issues. Boro meltdown Whats been going on at Middlesbrough? The 42-year-old is reported to have questioned the teams desire to reach the Premier League following a 1-0 defeat at relegation-threatened Rotherham last Tuesday.Karanka was reported to have previously fallen out with Boro players Albert Adomah and Stewart Downing after disagreements earlier in the season. The clubs two-sentence statement on Monday evening read: Middlesbrough Football Club can confirm that Head Coach Aitor Karanka will be resuming first team duties with the club with immediate effect.We have 10 games left this season and as a club we are fully focused on what remains of our Championship campaign. Highlights of Charlton v Middlesbrough from the Sky Bet Championship Also See: Whats going on at Boro? Watch Championship goals Sam Shields Rams Jersey .com) - Longtime Senators star Daniel Alfredsson returned to Ottawa on Thursday to officially announce his retirement. John Franklin-Myers Rams Jersey . 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The 31-year-old right-handed hitter batted .270 with a homer this spring for Tampa Bay.CHICAGO - Ernie Banks fans got their first chance to pay their respects to the most famous and beloved Chicago Cub who ever played after the statue of the Hall of Famer was placed in a downtown plaza Wednesday.One after another, fans stopped in Daley Plaza to take photos of the statue that normally stands at Wrigley Field. The city and the Cubs took the unprecedented step of taking the statue out of storage — where it was being held while the ballpark is renovated — and putting it on public display away from its usual home.The 83-year-old Banks died Friday of a heart attack. A visitation will be held this coming Friday, followed by a memorial service Saturday.By 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, the plaza was growing crowded with fans admiring the statue of Banks, frozen in the batting stance that kids in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s grew up imitating. They told stories about their connections to Banks, whether it was watching him play or meeting him.My family and my brothers were always watching him on TV and there was nobody like Ernie Banks, said McKenzie Holmes, 51, his postal worker uniform topped off with a Cubs hat. My brother just passed and I was thinking hes up there playing catch with Ernie now.ddddddddddddrudi Burns took pictures for her son. Though hes 23 and has only seen Banks in action on clips of games played long before he was born, Burns said he insisted she take a photo.Its his birthday this month and he said, Mom, I dont want anything else. I just want a picture of Ernie, she said, adding that the day Banks died her son named his new puppy Banks.Jim Kosik, 54, told of how Banks signed a ball for him in the 60s — a ball he has since lost. He, too, took pictures, for himself and his family.I will send a photo to relatives who left Chicago so they can share the moment, he said.Later, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, accompanied by Banks widow, placed a wreath at the statue, saying that while Banks has long been known as Mr. Cub, he always will be and always has been Mr. Chicago.The statue will remain at Daley Plaza through Saturday, just a few feet away from a Picasso sculpture — an ironic placement given that in 1967 an alderman called on the city to replace what he saw as a hideous piece of junk with a statue of, thats right, Ernie Banks. ' ' '