Liverpool decide on Harvey Elliott price tag as next club preference emerges

Daily Mirror

18 hours ago

Liverpool could demand £50million for Harvey Elliott this summer, as he continues to ponder his future at Anfield. Elliott, 22, is fresh from being named player of the tournament at the under-21 European Championship.
The midfielder scored five goals in six games to help England win the competition, netting in the final against Germany. Elliott's focus will now be on his future at club level, with links of a move away intensifying.
But the 22-year-old has set out a condition for his next club - and he won't come cheap. The Athletic report that Elliott's preference is to join a Champions League side, as he wants to play regularly at the top level.
And any suitors will have to cough up a sizeable sum. It's said that the Reds will demand a fee in excess of £40m while including a buy-back clause, or above £50m without one.
Tottenham, Brentford and RB Leipzig were both linked while Elliott impressed for the Young Lions in Slovakia. A broken foot saw him miss the autumn period for Liverpool last season, with Arne Slot only handing him a total of five starts - just two in the Premier League - across the 2024-25 campaign.
That's prompted Elliott to weigh up his future on Merseyside, not wanting to 'waste' years of his career. "I think it's a situation that me and the team on my behalf have to have a conversation about," the former Fulham wonderkid said ahead of the Euros.
"I'm coming into an age now where I'm 22 - I'm gonna be 23 next season - and I don't really want to be wasting years in my career because it's a short career, you don't know what's gonna happen.
"Injuries and things could shorten it. So I think it's a situation that, as I've said before, I need to reflect, I need to see if I'm content in doing what I'm doing and how can I improve as a player.
"That's the most important thing, that's the main thing really, I just want to improve and be the best possible version of myself and the best player I can be. And if that's to go somewhere else then it's a decision that I'm going to have to make, I just need to see what happens."
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In May, Slot admitted that he had to be 'honest' with Elliott about his lack of game-time. "I think first of all it's very important that players who are here with us would like to stay, that's a bit compliment to everyone working here," the Liverpool manager explained.
"Harvey is one of the players who hasn't had as much playing time as he maybe deserves, but like some others he's in competition with so many good players that mainly I've chosen. Also partly because he was injured for a long time and I've been honest with him, the first part after he came back from his injury he wasn't the same as he was before his injury.
"But the last few months he's back to his old level again. There was no need for me to start with different players, but I think if you look at the amount of minutes that he had in the last one or two months and the time before, you can see it goes up already. So that tells you that we like, I like, him more now than I did the first months when he came back from his injury."
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