{"id":36428,"date":"2025-09-01T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36428\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:06:07","slug":"harvey-elliott-closing-in-on-loan-to-aston-villa-with-obligation-to-buy-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/36428\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Elliott &#8216;closing in&#8217; on loan to Aston Villa &#8211; with obligation to buy &#8211; Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a data-ail=\"326624\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/aston-villa\/\" title=\"Aston Villa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aston Villa<\/a> are working on a loan deal for <a data-ail=\"326624\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/harvey-elliott\/\" title=\"Harvey Elliott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Harvey Elliott<\/a> with an obligation to make the deal permanent next summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elliott\u2019s future is one of several that will be decided on deadline day, with Leipzig and <a data-ail=\"326624\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/aston-villa\/\" title=\"Aston Villa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aston Villa<\/a> among those to have identified the 22-year-old as a target.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6537949\/2025\/09\/01\/harvey-elliott-aston-villa-transfer-liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Athletic<\/a>\u2018s David Ornstein now reports that Arson villa are \u201cclosing in\u201d on a deal to sign Elliott on a season-long loan with an obligation to buy him next summer.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_pauljoyce\/status\/1962480454965100675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Times<\/a>\u2018 Paul Joyce adds that the fee would be \u201caround\u201d \u00a335 million, which would be a considerable profit on Liverpool\u2019s books. <\/p>\n<p>Ornstein states that \u201cdiscussions between the clubs have centred around a structure of an agreement that ensures Villa comply with UEFA\u2019s financial restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P2025-08-04-Liverpool_Atletic_Bilbao-29-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - Monday, August 4, 2025: Liverpool's Harvey Elliott grabs the Liverpool badge whilst celebrating after scoring the fourth goal during a pre-season friendly match between Liverpool FC and Athletic Bilbao at Anfield. (Photo by David Rawcliffe\/Propaganda)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden alignnone size-medium wp-image-325014\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool deadline day latest:<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool\u2019s \u00a3125 million agreement for <a data-ail=\"326624\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/alexander-isak\/\" title=\"Alexander Isak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alexander Isak<\/a> has opened the door for Elliott\u2019s exit, who is known to prefer to stay in the <a data-ail=\"326624\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/premier-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Premier League<\/a> over a move abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The club were seeking a deal for their No. 18 in excess of \u00a340 million plus a buy-back option, or above \u00a350 million without one if he was to move on after six years at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ail=\"326624\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/aston-villa\/\" title=\"Aston Villa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aston Villa<\/a> have been in the market for reinforcements this summer having only signed forward Evann Guessand and goalkeeper Marco Bizot, with their 3-0 defeat to <a data-ail=\"326624\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/crystal-palace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crystal Palace<\/a> compounding their woes.<\/p>\n<p>Unai Emery\u2019s side will compete in the <a data-ail=\"326624\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/europa-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Europa League<\/a> this season and Elliott will not be short on opportunities, something Slot cannot promise the 22-year-old. <\/p>\n<p>Elliott has made 147 appearances for Liverpool after signing from <a data-ail=\"326624\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/fulham\/\" title=\"Fulham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fulham<\/a> in 2019, with the club made to pay \u00a34.3 million in compensation, and he conceded this summer he had to consider what was best for his career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa are working on a loan deal for Harvey Elliott with an obligation to make the deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,560,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-36428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-liverpool-fc","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}