Ha makes you wonder doesn't it? Tosin, Humphreys, Glendon, Celina, barker would likely be about and I'd have them in the squad ahead of him personally.
I do second guess the set up in this circumstance. If there was even the slightest of chances of making your first team debut you'd hang around in England if you were Maffeo wouldn't you? He clearly would.
Yet he didn't. Which makes me ponder a few things. Namely that either the club told him he wouldn't be needed and he most likely agreed, presuming that he'd have no chance of being involved even if he was on the bench. So you wonder if you've got a young lad thinking I could sit on the bench but I just know I won't get on....so I may as well go home.
That in itself is depressing. I may be getting ahead of myself, but if your best young defensive prospect thinks it's better off heading home to Spain for a bit then something clearly isn't right.