Gary O'Neil adamant loan star will return to Wolves

Despite that, the club sent him on loan to Villarreal until the end of the campaign, where Mosquera has impressed at both centre-back and right-back.

The Colombian has since said he would like to stay in Spain and that he has told Villarreal and Wolves of his plans, but O'Neil says the player will come back with the aim of him competing in the Premier League next season.

"I'm not too sure where it's come from, I'm not aware that he's spoken to us and told us he'd like to stay in Spain," O'Neil said.

"He'll be back with the other loanees and assessed ready for next season.

"My plans from the outset, and even in January, were to have him around us. The decision was made in January that maybe, for where he was mentally and what he needed, it was to play some more games.

"That was fine for the second half of this season, but my plan for next season is that he's here and part of the squad, or at least judged by us with a view to him being part of the squad before any decision is made."

Mosquera is popular in the Wolves dressing room and impressed O'Neil and his coaches during training, despite getting no minutes before leaving on loan again.

When asked if Mosquera was naive to say what he did in public, the head coach was relaxed on the situation and does not read too much into it.

He added: "He's a nice guy and I'm guessing if you're sat in Spain at Villarreal and someone asks you if you'd like to stay, the normal answer is 'oh yeah I'd love to stay'.

"You never know what will happen, but I'm sure if I call him and say 'would you like to play 38 games in the Premier League next year', he'd probably say 'oh yeah I'd love to'.

"I hope he'd say that! There's not too much to be made of it."