Trialist Kane Vincent-Young has left the Blues following Town’s Spanish training camp and appears set to stay with Colchester United.
Last month, TWTD revealed that Blues manager Paul Hurst was keen on the 22-year-old, who turned down a new deal with the League Two U’s over the summer, and the former Spurs academy full-back or wing-back subsequently spent last week training with the Town squad in Spain.
He played the full 90 minutes of Sunday’s 1-0 friendly defeat of Kilmarnock at the Scottish Premiership side’s training base at La Manga but will be in the Colchester squad which travels to Carden Park in Cheshire today for their training camp.
"Kane will be on the trip to Carden Park, which is brilliant news for us,” U’s manager John McGreal told the Colchester Gazette.
"We’ve tried really hard with Kane. I don’t know what’s gone on and I’m not going to ask too many questions but he’s been one of our players and he’s been excellent for us, especially during my two-year tenure in charge.
"There’s a genuine hope now that he’ll sign the contract. We’ll sit down with his representatives and Tony [Humes] and Robbie [Cowling] and try and get something organised as quickly as we can.”
Elsewhere, former Blues striker Jordan Rhodes joined Norwich City on a season-long loan from Sheffield Wednesday yesterday.
Former Kesgrave High School pupil Rhodes, 28, came through the Town academy but was controversially sold to Huddersfield by former boss Roy Keane in July 2009 before he had made a first-team start for the Blues.
Rhodes, the son of one-time goalkeeper-coach Andy, scored one goal in 10 sub appearances for Town before departing to the Terriers in a deal which was ultimately worth just over a million to the Blues, a fraction of the fees subsequently paid for him by Blackburn (£8 million), Middlesbrough (£9 million) and the Owls (£10 million).
Another ex-Town striker, Paul Taylor, is on trial at Doncaster Rovers having left Bradford City in April.
The 30-year-old former Peterborough frontman played for the League One side in a 5-0 win at Frickley last night.