Harvey Elliott (signed on loan)

[eamonn]

I don't want him at 35m. That isn't a reflection on the player, but where we are financially. We need to make a profit again next summer don't we? We have McGinn, we have Buendia. Save the money and find a bloody good centre forward and two bloody good wingers on the cheap.

We've got, not we have.

I just don't think he understands.

[Percy McCarthy]

I honestly think that the UEFA rule of effectively having the value hit the books when it is first triggered was either forgotten about, or was deemed not an issue with us thinking we would get a fee from Martinez to Manure to cover it. As soon as we didn't give ourselves the wriggle room we were then stuck with having to wait out Elliotts 10 games until we can do some business in Jan to cover it.

Elliott was part of the ‘Martinez hasn’t gone after all’ panic on the last day.

[Drummond]

Though we'd been linked with him a good while before that.

[brontebilly]

Elliot ahead of Asensio seemed to be the call, the correct one in my view, but suspect Emery is a bit sour about it. Even if Elliot was really struggling to settle those two pub teams we have just played would have been ideal games to settle him in.