Harvey Elliott has been limited to just four starts at Liverpool by Arne Slot and he is facing a big decision in his career

Harvey Elliott will have much to ponder when he turns 22 on Friday.

He must have hoped for way more than just the four starts he has made this season for Liverpool and he has been one of the biggest losers under Arne Slot. Elliott has still weighed in with four goals and two assists, despite his bit-part role, and his late winner at Paris Saint Germain will live long in the memory

Jurgen Klopp admitted near the end of his Liverpool reign that one regret he had was that he didn’t use Elliott more last season. The playmaker still made 27 starts under Klopp and contributed three goals and 10 assists to show his value to the team.

He was a proper wonderkid, becoming Fulham’s youngest player when he made his debut aged 15 years and 174 days in the League Cup in 2018. He made his debut for his beloved Liverpool the following year at 16 years and 174, also in the League Cup.

Elliott has been unlucky this season and he broke his foot on England Under-21 duty at the start of September, which ruled him out of action for two months. Instead of being able to challenge Dominik Szoboszlai for the No.10 role, he saw Curtis Jones overtake him and make his full England debut.

When Elliott was finally fit, Slot had his team in mind and his four starts under the Dutchman have all been in the cups. Elliott loves Liverpool, saying “this is my club, I’m a massive fan” and his aim over the run-in will be to try and convince Slot he deserves more game time.

But this summer will be a crucial one for him and his future. Elliott will be entering the final two years of his contract and Liverpool will open talks to avoid a repeat of this season’s nightmare scenario when they have been trying to hang on Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk.

Elliott’s instincts will be to stay and he will back himself to force his way into Slot’s plans. But he must also contemplate, as unpalatable as it sounds now, could his career develop better somewhere else?

Wrexham won 2-0 at Lincoln on final day of League One season

PHIL PARKINSON praised his players for delivering the goods against Lincoln City despite having already secured automatic promotion to the Championship.

Wrexham picked up a 2-0 win at Sincil Bank on the final day of the League One campaign following second half goals from Elliot Lee and Ryan Longman.

That was a 27th victory in 46 league games and came seven days after the Reds beat Charlton Athletic 3-0 at home to clinch an historic third successive promotion with a game to go.

The players have a promotion party in Las Vegas booked for this week, with Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney footing the bill, but Parkinson wanted one final

hurrah in the shape of a win before those celebrations and he got it.

“We wanted to finish in a professional manner and we spoke to the lads about that,” said the Reds’ boss.

“The perception of the group, the celebrations last week and the lads are jetting out to Vegas this week, in between that we wanted to finish the season well.

“I like to win a game of cards with my kids, so I certainly don’t want to not win a game of football.

“Factoring in as well that people spent a lot of money again to watch us, I just wanted us to play well and put in a good performance.

“Whether that resulted in a draw, win or loss, the most important thing is I wanted us to look a professional team which we are, and we got the win.

“Ninety-two points from 46 games, I’m really pleased with that and I’m also delighted with 26 points from our last 11 away games. That’s an outstanding return at any level of football.”

Wrexham finished the season strongly with victory against the mid-table Imps to extend the unbeaten run to 10 games.

Parkinson says his players showed they can handle the pressure when it matters most in the run-in.

“It’s very important to produce when it matters most,” he added.

“Obviously the season was done in many respects (going to Lincoln) but we’ve got into our stride nicely and that’s 10 games unbeaten.

“The last little blip was Reading away but we responded brilliantly at Wycombe a few days later.

“I would imagine in the form table we’re right up there in the last 10 games and that’s what counts.

“You’ve got to hold your nerve, you’ve got to have players who relish those kind of pressure games and I think you’ve seen over the last few weeks, we’ve got players who stood tall, shoulders back, and said ‘this is what it’s all about’.

“That’s what you’ve got to be to play for Wrexham because there’s big expectations, there’s a lot of spotlight on us and you’ve got to handle that.

“We’ve pieced together a squad of players who really enjoy that.”