Liverpool midfielder Harvey Elliott reportedly has a new admirer in one of 2024-25's flourishing Premier League clubs.
The 22-year-old has just become a league champion for the first time after Liverpool sealed England's top-flight title with four matches to spare.
However, only after that success was sealed late last month was Elliott provided with his first Premier League start of the campaign in a 3-1 reverse at Chelsea on Sunday.
Although Elliott has recently spoken about his desire to remain at Anfield in the long term, being given just 427 minutes of Premier League and Champions League football across the season keeps his future in doubt.
According to talkSPORT, one of the Premier League's form teams are contemplating whether to make a big-money approach for the playmaker.
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Elliott interest intensifying
The report claims that Elliott is now on the radar of Wolverhampton Wanderers, who had recently won six successive league games before a narrow defeat to Manchester City.
While it is suggested that Elliott is attracting attention from several clubs, it is Wolves who are namechecked, joining Brighton & Hove Albion whose interest was reported earlier in the year and Newcastle United's whose was claimed last month.
Possessing a contract until 2027, Liverpool will soon need to decide how to handle the situation, perhaps dictated by what proposals are made this summer.
Elliott has reached this stage of his career where only 34 of his 89 Premier League appearances for Liverpool have come from the starting lineup.
Although his versatility in midfield and on the flanks is a clear plus point for Arne Slot, it is currently difficult to see him ever holding down a regular place in the first XI.
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Would Elliott fit Wolves' system?
Vitor Pereira's 3-4-2-1 formation at Wolves is very much set in stone, effectively leaving Elliott to compete for the two creative positions behind the centre-forward should he move to the West Midlands.
With Matheus Cunha expected to leave in a £62.5m deal, funds will be available, but Wolves ideally need a player who can replace the goals of Cunha.
Despite 14 goals and 19 assists from 144 appearances for Liverpool being a respectable return for someone who has spent as much time in the team as out of it, Wolves supporters would expect a more attack-minded alternative.
Elliott would likely only earn a starting place at Wolves if it is ahead of Jean-Ricner Bellegarde or Marshall Munetsi, yet the pair already have enough credit in the bank to start 2025-26 ahead of Elliott.
Darren Plant
