Andoni Iraola confirms Harvey Elliott Liverpool plan after Aston Villa loan disaster

Liverpool manager Arne Slot has confirmed that Harvey Elliott volition beryllium fixed a accidental to impressment successful pre-season aft a disastrous indebtedness spell with Aston Villa.

The 23-year-old has returned to the AXA Training Centre aft a fruitless twelvemonth nether Unai Emery astatine Villa Park, wherever helium made conscionable 9 appearances successful each competitions, scoring 1 extremity successful the EFL Cup.

Elliott was restricted to conscionable 1 Premier League commencement for Aston Villa and did not marque the matchday squad for immoderate of their last 8 top-flight games, arsenic the Lions successfully got retired of their work to marque his enactment imperishable for £35m.

Elliott needed to marque 10 Aston Villa appearances for the Lions to fulfil their conditional obligation, and Emery admitted that the concern was "embarrassing" for everybody involved.

However, aft Iraola offered Elliott a Liverpool lifeline successful his precise archetypal interview, the caller Reds brag has revealed his contiguous plans for the erstwhile Fulham starlet.

Harvey Elliott to beryllium fixed Liverpool accidental successful pre-season

"Definitely Harvey is present with us," Iraola said astatine his archetypal property conference. "I person seen him with this eagerness of showing himself, getting himself acceptable again. He volition person a accidental during the pre-season.

"We volition request him and it's a bully motion helium came 1 week earlier. He's been grooming with the Under-21s and I anticipation we tin spot him successful a bully place.

"Last play had to beryllium precise hard for him due to the fact that it was a unusual concern wherever fundamentally they couldn't adjacent enactment him to play.

"I deliberation helium uses this, what helium has experienced – the atrocious concern helium has experienced – to marque him adjacent much anxious to beryllium a Liverpool player, yes."

Liverpool's archetypal pre-season crippled comes against Sunderland successful Nashville connected July 25, and the Reds volition besides instrumentality connected Wrexham, Leeds United, Monaco and Como earlier their Premier League opener distant to Newcastle United connected August 23.

Does Harvey Elliott inactive person a aboriginal astatine Liverpool?

Elliott's experiences nether some Emery and Arne Slot were painful, arsenic during the 2024-25 campaign, the 23-year-old started conscionable six games for Liverpool; 2 of which came successful the Premier League.

Elliott was deployed successful a assortment of roles 2 years ago, including fig eight, fig 10, near helping and close wing, and helium volition ostensibly person a accidental to beryllium himself successful the second presumption this summer.

Liverpool are yet to motion a nonstop Mohamed Salah replacement, portion his backup for the past 2 seasons - Federico Chiesa - has consistently struggled for some signifier and opportunities.

Elliott has proven himself utile to Liverpool erstwhile fixed a shot, memorably scoring successful 3 consecutive Champions League games successful 2024-25 and registering a full of 36 extremity involvements from 149 games successful each competitions.

However, arsenic the attacker's woody expires successful 2027, nonaccomplishment to beryllium his worthy successful pre-season could pb to a merchantability successful the 2nd fractional of the summertime transportation window, which Iraola has besides sent FSG a wide message for.