Borussia Dortmund and Manchester United prove Liverpool got £45m Harvey Elliott transfer bargain

Liverpool have been advised to pay a charge of as much as £4.3million for Harvey Elliott by a tribunal in the beginning of February.

However the worth of the participant was put into perspective by two high-profile current signings in England and Germany.

“Have a look at Manchester United – they’ve simply spent £20m on Amad Diallo,” mentioned Marcus Banks on the Blood Red podcast.

“That places Elliott into perspective at £4m, who’s already impressing within the Championship and appears set to come back again and play an element within the Liverpool first group.”

Diallo is an Ivory Coast starlet who was bought from Italian aspect Atalanta in January.

Manchester United mentioned in an official assertion upon his arrival that they’d been monitoring his progress for 5 years.

However by ready so lengthy to make a transfer for the ahead, they ended up paying considerably greater than Liverpool did for Elliott.

“There have been lots of Man Metropolis followers who needed to see Phil Foden within the beginning XI [for years],” Banks continued.

“However Pep Guardiola dripped minutes into him and I feel Klopp will do one thing comparable with Elliott.

“He deserves to be in that dialog and when you take a look at Foden now, he’s Metropolis’s greatest participant other than perhaps Kevin de Bruyne and Ruben Dias.

“Foden is the way forward for England and the way forward for Man City and Elliott can have the identical affect ranging from subsequent season.”

Along with Diallo, who netted against Liverpool under-23s on his debut for Manchester United, there’s one other England youth star who just lately made his senior worldwide debut.

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Final July, Borussia Dortmund signed 17-year-old Jude Bellingham from Birmingham Metropolis for an preliminary charge of £25m, which may ultimately be value greater than £30m together with add-ons.

Bellingham made 41 Championship appearances for his former aspect final season; Elliott has performed an element in all 24 of the league fixtures he has been eligible for this yr, so is on monitor for the same quantity ought to he stay injury-free.

Had he accomplished so, his valuation would have been comparable – and maybe even increased given he’s an attacking participant who has posted 4 objectives and 10 assists in that interval.

However Liverpool picked up Elliott on a free switch as his contract at Fulham had expired, solely paying a charge to cowl his improvement as determined by the tribunal.

In addition to the £4.3m, Fulham will obtain 20 per cent of any future sale that Liverpool sanction for Elliott.

However given how extremely regarded he’s, that, the Reds will hope, is rarely a determine they must hand over.

Within the offers for Diallo and Bellingham, the true worth of Liverpool’s Elliott transfer – at underneath 10 per cent of the mixed worth of the Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund pair – may be seen.

Elliott is sort of sure to be an enormous a part of the Liverpool squad from subsequent season – and is the most recent instance of a Reds switch masterclass.