Boro forward Luke Williams will be sent back out on loan with Scunthorpe United among the possible suitors.
The 21-year-old spent the last two months of 2014 on loan at Glanford Park and impressed for Mark Robins’ League One side.
A thigh injury saw Williams return to Teesside prematurely last month, but Aitor Karanka has opened the door for the versatile front man to secure another short-term loan move away from the Riverside.
“Luke is here but he’s injured,” Karanka said in yesterday’s press conference. ”In the case of Luke we are thinking of sending him out on loan again.”
Karanka’s comments are likely to grab the attention of Scunthorpe chiefs, with Robins already stating publicly he hopes to bring Williams back to the club.
“I want to try to bring Luke Williams back in, but I’ll see what I can do,” Robins told the Scunthorpe Telegraph last week.
“We will try to do the deal at some point but whether it is possible yet I don’t know.”
Williams started this season in Karanka’s first-team picture, scoring a 30-yard screamer at Oldham in Boro’s Capital One Cup third round tie back in August.
But the signings of Patrick Bamford and Jelle Vossen before the summer transfer deadline pushed Williams down the pecking order, and led to him spending a long period with Boro’s Under-21 side.
Williams is one of a handful of Boro youngsters expected to secure loan moves to the Football League this month.
Bryn Morris has been linked with a return to Burton Albion, while the likes of Ryan Brobbel, Charlie Wyke, David Atkinson, Seb Hines and Bradley Fewster have all tasted life away from the Riverside already this season.
Yesterday Bradley Halliday extended his loan spell at York City until the end of the season, while Andy Halliday scored one goal and assisted another in midweek as Bradford City dumped Millwall out of the FA Cup and booked a fourth round tie with Chelsea.
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