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Xavi Simons' aboriginal could person a important bearing connected the aboriginal of Liverpool youngster Harvey Elliott, who is being linked with a determination to RB Leipzig.
Elliott's Liverpool aboriginal is up successful the air aft a disappointing play connected a idiosyncratic level, which saw him neglect to enactment up successful a meaningful crippled successful either the Premier League oregon the Champions League.
The 22-year-old's lone 2 league starts came aft the rubric had been wrapped up, portion his lone commencement successful Europe was besides successful a dormant rubber against PSV Eindhoven successful January.
Liverpool's acquisition of Florian Wirtz is apt to spot Elliott autumn adjacent further down the pecking order, and though helium is simply a boyhood Reds fan, his vocation mightiness beryllium champion served by a determination distant from Anfield.
The Athletic reports that Liverpool would privation a interest of £40 cardinal ($55 million) positive a buyback enactment for Elliott, oregon a interest of £50 cardinal ($69 million) without one.
Elliott, who has 2 years remaining connected his Liverpool contract, could determination abroad, with Leipzig among the clubs funny successful the England Under-21 star.
However, it is claimed that for Leipzig to get a woody done, the German nine would archetypal person to merchantability players, and Netherlands prima Simons, who was antecedently targeted by erstwhile Liverpool brag Jurgen Klopp, is among those who could leave.
Simons, besides 22, has asked to permission Leipzig this summertime contempt having lone joined the nine connected a imperishable transportation earlier this year.
Elliott admitted past period that the play had been hard for him, aft figuring for less than 900 minutes successful each competitions implicit the people of the campaign.
"It's been hard with however overmuch I've played," Elliott told Sky Sports aft scoring successful Liverpool's nonaccomplishment to Brighton. "I've tried arsenic hard arsenic I could and immoderate happens, happens.
"It's astir what's champion for my career. It's astir reflecting and seeing what I tin do. I'm present astatine the infinitesimal and I'm focusing connected the last game."
Slot addressed Elliott's struggles successful May, explaining his thought process down wherefore the attacking midfieler wasn't getting galore minutes.
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The commencement of the midfielder's play was interrupted by a ft fracture, and aft helium returned helium failed to interruption backmost into the team.
Slot said: “I person chiefly chosen different players, besides successful portion due to the fact that helium was injured for a agelong clip and, I person been honorable with him, the archetypal portion aft helium came backmost from his wounded helium wasn't the aforesaid earlier his injury.
"But the past fewer months helium is backmost to his aged level again. There is nary request for maine to commencement with antithetic players but I deliberation if you look astatine the magnitude of minutes helium has had successful the past 2 months, and the months before, you tin spot it goes up already.
"That tells you that I similar him much erstwhile helium came backmost from his wounded successful the archetypal months.”
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