Slot:
Harvey is an Aston Villa player and he’s supposed to be there for the season.
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“I don’t want him coming back here and playing well because it wont reflect well on me, regardless of how threadbare we are”.
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Give it a fucking break for a day. As you are comms experts what should Slot have said? Because my degree is in it and that to be fair is a fair statement.
This is getting tiresome incredibly quickly.
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Getting?
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Unai Emery on Harvey Elliott:
“The problem we have with Harvey is this year he is on loan and in case he is playing matches, we must buy him. We decided two months ago we are not convinced to sign him, spending the money we need. This is the issue.”
A shame for Harvey to lose a year of his career. Seems he’s been training well, integrated with the group etc. Villa are doing well this season.
As I’ve said elsewhere, get him back here for the remainder of the season - you never know, he might have an important role to play. It’s whether the club can have him back on the books in terms of wages etc.
Bring him home…to Anfield…
He will have to be recalled. Villa will not sign him, and we could use another body with the injuries and the heavy schedule.
Whether or not Slot will use him is another matter, but there is no point for him to remain at Villa.
Posted this in the unreliable rumour thread, but may as well do so here too. Romano is linking him with a loan move to MLS
I assume there isnt a way for us to agree alternative terms with Villa to effectively remove or raise the number of games needed to make the move permanent in return for a larger loan fee - if the only blocker to Villa playing him is that stipulatiion?
Joyce:
Harvey Elliott will not take up interest from MLS despite being left in limbo as his career stalls.
The midfielder is on loan at Aston Villa but has been frozen out by the head coach, Unai Emery, since October 2. Villa are obliged to make Elliott’s move a permanent £35million deal, which is understood to include a £5million loan fee, if he makes ten appearances. He is stuck on five.
That Elliott, 22, has also featured for Liverpool this season means he cannot play for a third club unless it is for a team where the football calendar overlaps on seasons. That has raised the possibility of a move to the United States, with Charlotte FC among the interested suitors.
However, MLS is not an option Elliott is contemplating. As it stands, he will not be returning to Liverpool either. Liverpool have no recall option and there has been no contact from Villa.
No surprises there.
Doubt Emery was interested in bringing Elliott in. Similar to Slot he is the head coach and not the manager and people above have the final say on transfer. I actually think it was the same with us bringing in Chiesa.
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Feel sorry for Harvey.Sadly he doesn’t suit the intensity and physicality of the PL.He should go to Germany.The Bundesliga should suit him well.
I mean last summer it was pretty clear where he stands here and what’s his status, regardless that he had a pre-season and was used by us (though that also became a factor for this limbo…). It became even worse on paper.
I’d say he should maybe look at changing his agents/entourage. There was a deal to be made well before the 1st of September, knowing the whole situation.
That coupled with some perhaps not clear enough decision making at Villa gave them the option to wait and see, even delay and walk out.
I’m sure this is far from ideal for them either, but for Harvey it’s the worst.
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The more I look at this absurd deal with Villa, the more I think that Hughes is unfit as a SD for this club, assuming that he was in charge of this.
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Elliott seems to have ended up as the pawn in a tussle between Emery and his DOF, and I’m not sure that we can blame Hughes for that.
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I agree. It was a poorly negotiated deal and pointed this out earlier but got laughed at. We should never have let Harvey go on the loan never-never.
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We don’t know what the situation was, he would still have played little here anyhow.
Apparently he turned down Germany himself maybe it’s a bit of a fault of all involved, it’s not like it was clear that we wanted to loan or sell him.
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I think it’s clear we wanted to sell, because that type of loan left very little room for a way back here. What’s 10 games before it automatically becomes permanent… although this could be a rare case where it doesn’t go through.
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Elliott’s advisors and Elliott himself have to take their part of the blame.
I was gobsmacked when I learnt about this transfer and am not at all surprised by this shit show.