Connor Ripley has impressed Aitor Karanka this season on and off the training pitch and hinted the young keeper may go out on loan next season.
The 22-year-old is a regular member of the Boro Under-21 development team but hasn’t played for the first team since January 2012.
It appears, though, that he’s impressed Karanka and the club’s goalkeeping coach Leo Percovich.
The Boro boss won’t make a decision about sending Ripley out on loan until the summer but the fact that he’s named him on the bench four times already this year suggests he’s in his thoughts.
“My thoughts are at the moment we need to know where we will be next season but as always we will take the right decision for everybody,” said Karanka when asked if, following Dimi Konstantopoulos’s new deal, he won’t need to bring in any more keepers.
“I can’t say anything now because next season I need to think about what is going to happen in pre-season because I don’t want to keep Connor here as a (third) keeper.
“I think he is a very good keeper, he has a lot of potential but he needs to play.
"So this season we thought that for him the way to get him better was to train with us in the first team squad but I think his next step is to play games.
“I trust 100% in him because he has improved a lot with us, his behaviour is very good, he is good character for the training room so we will have to think about the future.”
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