Sheffield United boss Paul Heckingbottom says they're pleased with Oliver Arblaster's progress at Port Vale.

The midfielder has impressed been away with England U20s this week.

Heckingbottom said: "He's doing really well.

"It was the right thing to do, to send him out, for his development, but he would have got minutes here. Maybe not as many. It would have also helped us because he wouldn't have counted as one of the 25-man squad, because he's under-age, but I feel it would have been a really selfish decision, to keep him in.

"People know what we think of him, we think he has a real chance and potentially a real big future here. So it was important, in our eyes, that we got him out, playing games as often as possible. He's done that and he's performing well. It was 100 per cent the right thing. What we do in January or at the end of the season, we'll have to wait and see."