He also has the more competition than those lot as he is an AM when same areas as Messi/Griezmann/Coutinho/Pedri etc.
His height in an already small Barca team that has worst heading stats probably doesnt help either.
Should get minutes when Pedri is rested more. That is about his only proper chance at moment. It is that v loan and Koeman still seems to be saying wont get all that much minutes.
Minutes in dead games are not the greatest to learn from or prove all that much either really.
Ok, it's Koeman's prerogative to play the players he wants in the end. It's also his job and his position that will be scrutinized by the new board. As long as Barca doesn't lose the player, and a new manager will have the chance to select and trust Puig, I don't have a particular problem with it.
Koeman better hope that Pedri doesn't get injured, god forbid, or something, due to being overplayed in his first proper season in the big league. And then complain he doesn't have players to use.
He has two young, dynamic, talented players with serious skill and great passing vision, and he's using only one all the time, and snubbing the other. Better not come back to bite him in the ass later in the season.
Now he has two of them to use. Better pray he doesn't end up with zero when the decisive games in CL, Copa del Rey, and La Liga will come.