Harvey Elliott (signed on loan)

[PaulWinch again]

Tielemans isn’t very good there. Emi B has done great, but a bit premature to assume it’s something long-term as opposed to a brief up tick in form. I’d love Rogers to stay long-term, but would imagine he’ll be off next summer or the following depending what this new contract talk is about.

So I can quickly see why Elliott could be very important to us.

[Dante Lavelli]

Tielemans isn’t very good there. Emi B has done great, but a bit premature to assume it’s something long-term as opposed to a brief up tick in form. I’d love Rogers to stay long-term, but would imagine he’ll be off next summer or the following depending what this new contract talk is about.

So I can quickly see why Elliott could be very important to us.

I suppose my worry is buying Elliot increases the likelihood that we must sell Rogers.  Keeping Rogers and having Buendia as reserve seems a sensible balance to me and should mean the £30m can be spent elsewhere.

[brontebilly]

Do we need him, or more to the point, would our limited money be better invested elsewhere?

Seems he is behind Rogers, Tillemans, Buendia for the ten role.  Competing with McGinn, Guessand and potentially Sancho for the RW position.  Starting to think the money would be better invested in a pacy winger.

Except we don't play with wingers really, pacey or otherwise. See Malen. Tielemans and Buendia injured now opens up an opportunity for him and Sancho to a degree. Not making the squad even would suggest he has quite a bit of work ahead of him.

[PaulWinch again]

I think we’ll look back at the end of the season and be saying “that was a weird start, but what a player we have here”. He’s a big talent and I think he’ll be a really good player for us.

[Grande Pablo]

On the basis he can’t play vs his parent club on Saturday it might be another Unai master stroke to keep the playing unit as one.  Elliott can still continue in more underhand ways…

[Dante Lavelli]

Do we need him, or more to the point, would our limited money be better invested elsewhere?

Seems he is behind Rogers, Tillemans, Buendia for the ten role.  Competing with McGinn, Guessand and potentially Sancho for the RW position.  Starting to think the money would be better invested in a pacy winger.

Except we don't play with wingers really, pacey or otherwise. See Malen. Tielemans and Buendia injured now opens up an opportunity for him and Sancho to a degree. Not making the squad even would suggest he has quite a bit of work ahead of him.

I agree with that, but I do feel one of the three (plus the striker) should have express pace and threaten the space on the outside/behind.  They can't all turn back into traffic otherwise we are too predictable.  Bailey, for example, became a much bigger threat once he offered a threat going on the outside rather than just chopping back onto his left foot.

[N'ZMAV]

Started like Tielemens did - he got it after 6 months or so

[PeterWithesShin]

Tielemans was getting a lot more minutes the first couple of months.