FORMER Yate Town ace Tyrone Mings will do everything possible to re-ignite his football career in the Barclays Premiership.

The former Yate Town defender’s season was wrecked six minutes into his Premiership debut for AFC Bournemouth against new league champions Leicester City last August when he suffered major knee ligament damage that needed surgery.

Mings, who was with Evo-Stik Southern League Division One South and West outfit Yate as a teenager in 2011, signed from Ipswich Town last summer for £8m but the knee injury has kept him out of action since that match against the Foxes.

The 23-year-old has had a further minor operation in April to help with the recovery process and is now on the mend.

Indeed, Mings is more determined than ever to make a full recovery and will be completing the large majority of his rehabilitation this summer with an expert in Philadelphia, USA.

“I’ve done most of my rehab so far in London at a clinic there,” Mings told the AFC Bournemouth website.

“It’s been very progressive and I’m getting there slowly. Since my last operation, they’ve taken the pins out of my medial ligament, strengthened it a little and now I’m doing strengthening exercises in my legs and getting the balance back.

“I’m going to Philadelphia to continue working, I should be out there until mid to late June, depending on where I am fitness wise and what the club want me to do.

“I’ll spend the majority, if not all of the summer there, then I’ll be back early July with everyone else to get some testing and hopefully join in with some of the running.

“I’m getting closer and I want to do everything I can to get it right.”

Mings could have put in a claim for an England place at this month’s European Championships in France as he has been hotly tipped as a future international.

But he admits that completing most of his rehab away from Vitality Stadium has helped to take his mind off the disappointment of not being involved in a campaign which, despite predictions that Bournemouth would got straight back down to the Championship after winning the league’s second tier last year, saw them survive and thrive.

“I have good days and bad days,” Mings said.

“I’m pleased in terms of how it’s feeling now, I’m not really running yet but I’ve tried to. I’ve been on the treadmill for the first time since the most recent operation so I’m getting there slowly. I’ve got to ensure it’s better than it was before.”