It’s rare in the UK but I wonder if there’s a good faith clause in the deal?
It’s highly questionable what else was on table on deadline day, because the player also needs to accept it.
Why did it take so long also says something about Elliott’s stock on the market. After all the little hype about him being best player at the U21’s Euros.
It’s not a shit deal objectivelly on paper, but it’s a rare case where different circumstances led to the player ending up in a shit position.
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Not sure if such a thing would be incorporated if the deal was done in good faith between two ‘honourable’ clubs… but you are right, there might well be 
To me anyway, Villa have obviously got ‘buyers regret’, but with injuries and poor form coming into the latter stage of the season, and European qualification becoming a priority, Emery needs all available resources to see the season out… looking at Harvey he needs a way to play him, without wanting him at Villa next season… A case of Unai ‘Del Boy’ Emery :0)
My presumption is that there can’t be one otherwise Emery’s public statements on the position would be a clear breach.
Which would beg the question, why wasn’t there one given what has played out should have been reasonably foreseeable?
Didn’t he join Aston Villa at a time when Rogers was in terrible form and they hadn’t scored, or even really had a meaningful shot, in the first four games? I’m not sure why Elliott would be being called unrealistic for thinking he could play there.
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I think Villa wanted everything in the arrangement to lean heavily in their favour from the get-go. They may have cited a concern re injury record of Harvey, and whether he could remain fit and firing. Maybe they put it across they wanted to establish first hand his fitness durability… Bottom line remains though, Villa are the culprits here in these tactics, and as far as Harvey is concerned, LFC can only look at where they have got their side of the bargain wrong… Even if they brought him back now, Slot is unlikely to consider him for selection anyway…
The Birmingham mail breaking news that has been known and freely discussed since September
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Played 90 minutes…and not for Villa. 
https://www.thisisanfield.com/2026/03/harvey-elliott-aston-villa-90-minutes-stats-liverpool-2026/
Can we not bring back to Anfield…
Villa have ruined Harvey’s season.
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Slot damaged his career first.
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Slots job is not to play Harvey Elliott. His job was to win the league.
We wanted him to go to Leipzig. He wanted to stay in the Premier League, and chose Villa. We even deferred the fee to facilitate that, and got fucked about as a result.
Villa are at fault here.
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Slot could also have decided to keep him and further help to develop his talent with and for us (as he should have imo). Instead, he told him to fuck off wherever he wanted. He’d be so useful for us this season if he had stayed…
Anyway, it’s terrible to see such a promising player having his career destroyed like that, and yes, Aston Villa play the biggest part in this. What was the fucking point for them to get him in if they weren’t going to play him?
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Yes, he would have been useful, but he wanted to leave.
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Agree with Mascot, Harvey wanted more game time and didn’t fancy his chances.
Pity I feel he may have got more of a look with our form.
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You’ll find the following quote:
“I need to be in a team where I’m getting regular minutes. Whether that’s starting or coming off the bench, just having that feeling of going into a matchday knowing you’re going to play, that’s the only way I can improve now.”
He needed to leave because Slot wouldn’t give him those minutes. Bottom-line: it’s 100% Slot’s fault that Elliot isn’t here anymore to help us during this difficult season in which we desperately lack depth in the positions he used to play in for us.
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With our signings i.e Wirtz, he would have got less minutes as no other midfielder left and neither Jurgen or Arne saw him as a wide player
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Yes, but only because Arne was barely playing him and probably signalled the same again for the following season.
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And yet, when Frimpong was injured and Salah was stinking out the place with his inept performances, Elliot would have been very, very useful.