You say shoddily treated but what else should they have done? Decision was made that Walker was ahead of him. He could maybe have featured a couple more times in first grade but I don’t see that Leeds have done wrong by him.
Not every lad will make it at a club where the ambition is to be one of the best sides in the world.
Whereas Walker still has plenty to work on and isn’t the finished article yet, he has arguably the higher potential. Then again the answer at FB might be coming through the Academy.
The club shouldn’t have given Ashton a 5 year deal in the first place really at his age but hindsight’s easy.