Hannibal Mejbri returns to Sevilla's squad after the Man Utd loanee was dropped

Manchester United loanee Hannibal Mejbri has been named in Sevilla’s squad to face Osasuna on Sunday despite coach Quique Sanchez Flores saying he would not select the Tunisia midfielder until he learns to ‘apply himself’.

Mejbri joined Sevilla on loan for the rest of the season earlier this month in a deal that could see him make a permanent £17million move to Spain in the summer.

He made a debut for Sevilla off the bench in the 5-1 defeat at Girona on his 21st birthday last Sunday, but former Watford boss Flores apparently wasn’t impressed by what he saw.

Mejbri was left out of the squad for Thursday’s Copa del Rey quarter-final loss to Atletico Madrid, and Flores indicated that he not be available for the Osasuna game either, saying that he needed ‘some time to learn’.

No specific reason was given for the player’s omission, but sources have dismissed suggestions that he was involved in a training ground fight with one of his new teammates.

However, Flores appeared to have had a change of heart on Saturday evening when Mejbri was named in the 22-man squad to face Osasuna at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium in Seville this weekend.

That seemed unlikely when Flores spoke before the announcement, saying: ‘After being with him, talking to him and having seen his first minutes in Girona, we are going to give him the necessary space to understand where he is, that he is at Sevilla and what it means.

'He has to know where he is and we want to see him. We have spoken with him and we believe that he has to have some time to learn, we wanted to give him space, time for him to see things from the outside and then he will return to the squad.

'In the end they are kids who have come and suddenly land in a huge club like Sevilla in