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Scott Parker said he was “disappointed” with Harvey Elliott’s departure from Fulham and believes that the compensation Liverpool must pay is not enough.
Liverpool was ordered to hand over a record £ 4.3 million to Fulham for a 16-year-old after a court ruled that they should pay for the youngster.
The Professional Football Compensation Committee ruled that Liverpool must pay an initial £ 1.5 million for Elliott, plus £ 2.8 million in contingent amounts depending on the player’s performance. There are also payments due for Elliott to sign more contracts at Anfield.
“I guess I’m disappointed in everything, really,” Parker said when asked about the ruling.
“This is a player who had developed in this football club for a long, long time. I think he was our youngest player. We gave him his debut.
“You don’t want to spend £ 20 to 30 million on players, that’s why the academy is so important to us. Because you want to develop these players.
“We had developed that player so that a great club would accept him, and I understand that sometimes this is how it works. But certainly, I don’t know the exact numbers, but the numbers that have been suggested. I would rather (have)) the player.
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“£ 4 million for a player that we’ve developed, given his Premier League debut at such a tender age, he’s a player we thought about a lot. And he helped him in that process. And then he left as he did … and go to a court where you arrive
4 million pounds sterling or up to 4 million pounds sterling as suggested. It’s certainly from my position, it’s really crazy.
“Because I think we all recognize, and I recognize, that Harvey Elliott has the potential to be a world-class soccer player. Liverpool have taken him away from us by minimal numbers, by the potential that Harvey is capable of.”
Elliott made two backup appearances in the Premier League for Liverpool during his title-winning 2019-20 season, with seven other starts also in the FA Cup and Carabao Cup, and Parker said his departure for a minimal fee can have an impact. in the academies.
Harvey Elliott is currently on loan at Blackburn and has scored four goals and provided eight assists in 22 championship appearances.
“Yes, I think it can (hurt the incentive of the academies). Of course. Harvey is an excellent example of that,” said the 40-year-old.
“You develop someone over such a long period of time. The reason we have an academy, one of the main reasons I believe in academies, is that a young player, a boy who has been in your football club for so long and then steps in the sand, he is someone who contributes much more.
But also, there is an element that we are not in a position to pay £ 15 million, £ 20, £ 30 million for a great player, so we have to focus on trying to develop these young people so that that point of trying to play in the first team so we don’t have to do that (spend money).
“Certainly for us, a young player, an academy player is vital. At 16, or 17, that player leaves his club for compensation or a training fee. It just doesn’t suit him very well.”
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