After Spain’s round of 16 exit at the World Cup last year, manager Luis Enrique was asked if he would have done anything differently.
‘I would make a change, there is one I wouldn’t take,’ he said about his squad selection.
He has never publicly admitted who he meant but the consensus is that he was talking about new Brighton forward Ansu Fati.
He had been the last player named in the World Cup squad having only made three starts for Barcelona that season.
But as the youngest scorer in Spain’s history he was still the nation’s great hope of doing something more than just making up the numbers in Qatar.