Unai Emery has desperately pleaded for Liverpool\u2019s charity, but the Premier League holders should tell the head coach and Aston Villa to do one.<\/p>\n
Aston Villa are in a difficult position regarding loanee Harvey Elliott<\/a>, but this is all their doing.<\/p>\n In the summer, Villa <\/a>signed the Englishman on loan with an option to buy for \u00a335m, with the deal to be made permanent once he made ten appearances for his new club.<\/p>\n At the time, this felt like a great deal for all parties as Villa were landing a very talented footballer with great potential, Elliott was securing a move to a Premier League side for more game time and Liverpool <\/a>secured a sizable fee for a player not part of head coach Arne Slot\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n But this move has gone poorly for Elliott and Villa, with the loanee spending most of this season on the sidelines and only making seven appearances across all competitions.<\/p>\n Injuries have forced Emery to bring Elliott back into recent matches, though it\u2019s emerged that Villa and Liverpool have been in talks about changing the buyout clause in his loan deal.<\/p>\n It has also been reported that talks have proven unsuccessful as the \u2018agreement\u2019 remains unchanged<\/a>, which led to Emery\u2019s desperate public plea to Liverpool during his press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cI spoke with him. We have been fair because there are two ways,\u201d Emery said.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Big Weekend: Liverpool v Man City, Man United, Oliver Glasner, Igor Thiago<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cOne way is sport, the second is business. We\u2019ll be fair in case, because we are trying it and I told him, I spoke a few times with Harvey.<\/p>\n \u201cNow I am opening the door to play with us, because he can help us, but it\u2019s not only on my side.<\/p>\n \u201cThe other side is Liverpool, if they are taking off the clauses they have, to play matches and for us to buy him compulsory.<\/p>\n \u201c[I said to him] \u2018you are going to play here with us, it\u2019s a sport decision\u2019. But now it\u2019s a sport decision and a business decision.<\/p>\n \u201cMy sport decision is still there \u2013 \u2018you are deserving to play, we need your qualities in the field, you are going to play\u2019. But in case, the clauses are still there and now it is Liverpool \u2013 they have the key.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Villa are hoping for Liverpool\u2019s charity, but the Reds should tell their Premier League rivals to do one.<\/p>\n As far as they are concerned, Elliott is no longer their player as the terms of his loan mean they accepted last summer that he is as good as gone and just because Aston Villa have changed their mind doesn\u2019t mean they should too.<\/p>\n This will further \u201cdamage\u201d Elliott, but, as Emery says himself, this is a \u201cbusiness,\u201d and Liverpool would be foolish to give up \u00a335m so easily, and they should ensure that any new deal still guarantees they get their money.<\/p>\n Emery added: \u201cWe are speaking about it [taking off the clause] but not now. We started speaking about it three months ago. Of course, the transfer window was finished on Monday.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will be fair for him, because he\u2019s a calm guy, good guy, and he\u2019s a fantastic professional. And then his qualities are there.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course he must play, and he\u2019s really being passionate and I know we are damaging him, because we got a deal with Liverpool in the summer and the deal is there, and we are taking the decision responsibly from my side.<\/p>\n \u201cIt can change for him, in case Liverpool take off this clause \u2013 if they don\u2019t want to, okay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unai Emery has desperately pleaded for Liverpool\u2019s charity, but the Premier League holders should tell the head coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15134,95242,42,1100,1101,43,1102,40,38,41,39,64890],"class_list":{"0":"post-285915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-aston-villa","9":"tag-harvey-elliott","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories","19":"tag-unai-emery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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