I think that too based on him saying he was doing his coaching badges with us and that he was inspired to do so by Roberto / he's learning a lot from him. Hopefully they both stay another year.
Pretty sure he'd have got similar minutes if he'd stayed with us this season. As you say the point of the loan was that we wanted to see him playing full matches.
In The Athletic today, Naylor says "Talks have started with Bloom about the plans for next season, in particular the scale of squad strengthening".
But he also does point out "The future is still unclear, but the present looks perkier after a performance against Villa that, although still well...
In Dunk's post match interview he said: we've had a different week this week, changed the training and a bit of team building, something different away from the training ground.
Naylor said previously that we were looking to bring in another senior player in the Summer, I wonder how many is optimal and at what point it becomes "too many chiefs..."
For a good amount of incomings, we'd need to free up squad places with some outgoings - ideally not star players, but those not able to contribute too much on the pitch.... So interesting to see Roberto wants Milner and Lallana next year.