Harvey Elliott (signed on loan)

[Villan82]

Harsh, maybe, but I would play one of our own youth players before I would play Elliot.

[TheToffnar]

I like him, he's relatively self assured with a decent eye for a progressive pass and get's into decent space, but I said on the day we signed him that 35m was a ridiculous overvaluation. Nothing he's done since that day has proved me wrong.

He's got no pace or physicality, fine, but he's not good enough technically to cover for those weaknesses either, so what does he offer?

[Sexual Ealing]

Yeah, he's quite rubbish.

[TheToffnar]

It's not even that he's rubbish, just way too expensive. It's absurd to me that the club thought that was a fair price, especially with such an insanely tight obligation clause.

[aj2k77]

£20m seems a fair valuation. Everything on top is just SKY6 hype tax.

[PeterWithe]

Harsh, maybe, but I would play one of our own youth players before I would play Elliot.

And it seems a bit odd that we didn't, and sent a feasible option on loan to WBA instead if playing him in this game.

I agree that Elliott doesn't offer any more than Buendia when we have the ball and perhaps a little less when we don't, but there is something about him I like from the brief glimpses I've seen. He seems to inject a little 'busyness' and pace into our forward play, he's a bit impatient to make something happen. So maybe he's not all that great bit seeing him play answers some of the mild frustrations I have watching us at home at times.