has revealed the choice on ’s future together with his extremely unproductive mortgage spell at set to come back to an finish.
Midfielder Elliott made the short-term swap to Villa Park on the finish of final summer season’s switch window, on a season-long mortgage with an obligation to purchase conditional on appearances made.
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However his time there was an entire dud, with the 23-year-old having performed simply 284 minutes throughout the season for Unai Emery’s aspect – making only one begin and never incomes a single top-flight minute since 1 February.
Elliott wanted to make 10 Premier League appearances to set off the duty to purchase however has performed simply 4 league matches and, forward of Liverpool taking over Villa on Friday night, Arne Slot confirmed the midfielder will return to Anfield for the beginning of pre-season.
And the Reds boss additionally expressed his frustration at how the present marketing campaign has gone for the teenager.
Slot mentioned: “I believe for him, for everybody, it didn’t work out as he needed it, as we needed it and doubtless additionally how Villa needed it, since you often signal a participant or carry him in on mortgage to make use of him.
Harvey Elliott has endured a troublesome time at Aston Villa (Getty)
“That hasn’t occurred rather a lot. That’s not for me to reply why that’s. However in fact, it’s by no means good for a participant to not make so many minutes, particularly after the season he had with us, the place he made – I assume – much more minutes with us than these 280.
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“He went over there to get extra taking part in time, however sadly that didn’t occur. And for such a gifted participant that did so effectively within the U21 Euros [last summer], you need a participant like that to get increasingly taking part in time.
“He went to a really, excellent workforce as effectively, the place in addition they have a variety of good gamers. I don’t know why he hasn’t made the minutes he was anticipating. That’s not for me to reply.
“But it surely’s all the time a pity if a participant hardly performs for 2 years, not to mention a participant of that age that has proven in the course of the [U21] Euros that he’s such a very good participant.”
Elliott will return to Liverpool for pre-season at the very least (Getty)
Elliott joined Liverpool from in 2019 – scoring 15 targets and offering 21 assists in all competitions for the Reds since then.
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He has one 12 months left on his contract at Anfield, with Liverpool considered purchasing him round to different golf equipment this summer season, however Slot confirmed that he was presently a part of pre-season plans
Slot added: “He’s contracted to us so he will likely be with us within the begin of the season.”