Pep's comment recently about wanting to keep him out the limelight during a bad run and it being detrimental to a youngster's confidence was as lazy as anything I've heard from him in years.
McAtee spent last season fighting relegation and Pep has also overplayed Lewis while also throwing Simpson-Pusey in at the deep end a few times too.
Maybe Pep just doesn't fancy McAtee? Although I find it hard to believe after the gushing praise he had for him at the start of the season.
Bewildered he's not had more minutes.