Two Arsenal youngsters have returned from their loans to use the club's training facilities.

Taking to social media, Charlie Patino and Brooke Norton-Cuffy - on loan at Blackpool and Rotherham, respectively this season - both uploaded images onto their Instagram Stories showing they had briefly returned to the club to make use of the training facilities, reports Football.London.

Seeing the pair back at Arsenal may have come as a surprise for some supporters, given their loan spells won't be completed until the end of the season, but there is a perfectly good explanation for why they were back at their parent club's training base this week.

Just like the Premier League, the Championship campaign has also temporarily paused due to the World Cup taking place in Qatar over the next six weeks. However, English football's second tier will partially resume on December 3, with Sunderland facing Millwall before a full programme a week later.

Therefore Patino and Norton-Cuffy are back at Arsenal, simply using the training facilities to stay in the best condition so that they are raring to go when the season resumes on December 10.