We should have sent him out on loan as he wanted and instead of playing this game of "Oh don't worry you'll get minutes" and train with the first team every day. Right now he's in a spot where he's registered with the B team but not being called up and he's training mostly with the first team but he's not being called up.
Not sure if Pjanic going would make a difference. His competition is still FDJ, Gavi, Kessie, Pedri for the CM spots and on the Wings, there's Ralph, Dembele, Fati and Ferran.