Liverpool supervisor Arne Slot has provided his assist to unsettled midfielder Harvey Elliott, who has performed considerably much less underneath the Dutchman than beforehand underneath Jurgen Klopp.
Elliott has began simply 4 video games this season, three in home cup ties and the opposite a Champions league lifeless rubber. It has led to options that the 22-year-old might look to maneuver on this summer season, amid reported from Newcastle United, most notably.
Elliott did miss two months of the season with a damaged foot earlier than Christmas, which Slot insists has been a think about restricted alternatives. Upon the teenager’s restoration in November, the boss was then reluctant to overly tinker what he had discovered to be a successful components.
“I feel it is essential that gamers who’re right here with us like to remain. That is a giant praise to everybody working right here,” Slot defined, implying Elliott is not in search of a switch behind the scenes.
Elliott had publicly urged comparable earlier this week, pledging his dedication to Liverpool regardless of the irritating and “troublesome” circumstance he has discovered himself in.
“Harvey is without doubt one of the gamers that hasn’t had as a lot taking part in time as he possibly deserves,” Slot mentioned.
“However like some others he’s in competitors with so many good gamers that primarily [I] have chosen different gamers. Additionally, partly as a result of he was injured for a very long time, and I have been sincere with him.”
The boss continued: “The primary half after he got here again from his harm, he wasn’t the identical as he was earlier than his harm. However the previous couple of months he is again to his outdated degree once more however there was no want for me to start out with totally different gamers. I feel in the event you have a look at the quantity of minutes he had within the final one or two months and the time earlier than you possibly can see it goes up already. That tells you that I like him extra now than I did when he got here again from his harm within the first month.”
The video games that Elliott has performed this season have are available quite a lot of positions, on both flank, in central midfield and as a quantity 10.
His contract, signed in 2022, runs to 2027, with £40m rumoured to be Liverpool’s valuation.
