The midfielder has been on loan with Aston Villa from the Reds for the majority of the current campaign.<\/p>\n
However, Elliott has been limited to only 284 minutes on the pitch across the term.<\/p>\n
Slot was asked about Elliott\u2019s situation at his press conference today to preview Liverpool\u2019s trip to Villa on Friday night.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI think for him, for everyone, it didn\u2019t work out as he wanted it, as we wanted it and probably also how Villa wanted it, because you usually sign a player or bring him in on loan to use him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat hasn\u2019t happened a lot. That\u2019s not for me to answer why that is. But of course, it\u2019s never nice for a player not to make so many minutes, especially after the season he had with us, where he made \u2013 I assume \u2013 even more minutes with us than these 280.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe went over there to get more playing time, but unfortunately that didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd for such a talented player that did so well in the U21 Euros [last summer], you want a player like that to get more and more playing time.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe went to a very, very good team as well, where they also have a lot of good players. I don\u2019t know why he hasn\u2019t made the minutes he was expecting. That\u2019s not for me to answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s always a pity if a player hardly plays for two years, let alone a player of that age that has shown during the [U21] Euros that he\u2019s such a good player.\u201d<\/p>\n
Slot added: \u201cHe\u2019s contracted to us so he will be with us in the start of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The midfielder has been on loan with Aston Villa from the Reds for the majority of the current…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10015,10016,5851,61,60,10011,10006,10017,10019,10018,1547,10010,10009,5859,10014,10007,10012,112,10008,10013],"class_list":["post-448298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-homepage","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448298","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=448298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}