On-loan Blues forward Tete Yengi has been named his loan club VPS’s Player of the Year following the completion of Finnish season.

Australian Yengi joined Town in September last year following a trial after coming to the club via a contact of the club’s head of sports science Andy Costin, also an Australian, having left A-League side the Newcastle Jets.

The 21-year-old Adelaide-born frontman featured regularly for the U23s after joining Town and was on the bench for the Papa Johns Trophy tie against Gillingham in October last year without making it on to the field.

He joined VPS in April and during his season with the Vaasa-based club, Yengi, whose Town contract is up next summer, scored seven goals and claimed 11 assists in 27 matches as his side missed out on a place in the Europa Conference League in a play-off.

His loan officially ends on November 15th, then he is set for a holiday before returning to the Blues, who will then decide whether to send him out on loan again in January with a second spell at VPS possible.

Fellow striker Ben Morris, 23, is set to finish his loan spell with Swedish side GAIS on Saturday when the Gothenburg side host IFK Malmö having already secured the Ettan Södra (third tier) title. Academy product Morris scored four times in 28 games.

Midfielder Matt Healy has spent the summer with hometown club Cork City as they topped the League of Ireland First Division (second tier).

The 20-year-old scored four goals in 27 starts in all competitions as well as recording nine assists for the side managed by unrelated former Blues midfielder Colin Healy.

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CraigEdwards added 15:48 - Nov 3 Bring him back and have a good look at him.
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Linkboy13 added 17:28 - Nov 3 Hope im wrong but the likely hood of any of these players breaking into the first team is very remote. The standard of the club's they have been loaned out too is quite low would like to see them performing at least at National league level.
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irishtim added 18:03 - Nov 3 Healy Was Excellent For Cork City this season.
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brian_a_mul added 19:55 - Nov 3 Healy was good this season in Cork. I can see him doing well in Irish Premier if he stays there. Will be very hard to break in to towns midfield over the few seasons.
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Tractor_Boy_in_HK added 05:38 - Nov 4 @Linkboy13 - agree, the standard of competition for all three is very low so I would not take their success as an indication of progress towards our first time. Shocked Morris even went to third division in Sweden, which is mainly semi-pro. When I was posted in Sweden with the foreign service, I played in the 4th division. I was far from a hot prospect, and it was far from our fifth tier standard. The 4th tier in Sweden isn't much different.

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muhrensleftfoot added 08:49 - Nov 4 Ben Morris looked an excellent prospect until he had those 2 bad injuries which side-lined him for a couple of years. The fact that the club gave him another 1 yr contract shows they still hope he can make it.
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Ipswichbusiness added 08:59 - Nov 4 Linkboy13; I agree. It looks like Buabo and Valentine are the future.
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