According to a report by Football.London, Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Josh Onomah looks set to spend another season away from the club on loan.

What's the word, then?

Well, the 21-year-old joined Aston Villa on a season-long loan deal last term, and with it looking as though he will struggle for regular minutes under Mauricio Pochettino during the current campaign – having missed pre-season through injury – he could drop down into the Championship once again.

The Argentine boss handed the 6ft 1in tall Onomah his first-team debut in 2015, but he has so far failed to kick on even though he made 37 appearances in all competitions and scored four goals for Villa.

That said, a lot of those outings came from the substitutes' bench as he struggled to make a consistent impact under Steve Bruce, and Pochettino confirmed in his pre-match press conference earlier this week that Onomah could leave on a temporary basis again.

According to Football.London, he said: "He's a little bit behind the rest but we're working and I'm going to decide if he's a player that can stay with us or maybe if we believe he can play more, to find maybe some alternative for him to play more than last season. But to try for him to be more involved than he was last season at Aston Villa."

Is this the right call by Pochettino?

It probably is, yes.

The fact that the 21-year-old was not a regular fixture in the Aston Villa XI last season suggests that he isn’'t ready to play a key role for Tottenham yet either in the Premier League and the Champions League.

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While he is still young, another loan move away is a likely sign that he is not going to make it at Spurs, and if he does join a team on loan in the next couple of weeks he will likely be wanting to impress them to try and secure a permanent move away from the north London outfit.