Chelsea Rejected This Liverpool Star At 11 Years Old | #liverpool #premierleague

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Chelsea's loss turned out to be Liverpool's gain, but how did Harvey Elliott bounce back from rejection to become a key member of Jurgen Klopp's squad?

Let's find out 🤝
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[EvieWillNotDie]

Judging an 11 year old on their height 💀 the greatest player and so many others to dominate the game were short. Can you imagine one of these scouts finding Messi and snubbing him for the same reason as Elliott? Despicable.

[Liverpool-]

The Arsenal academy recejcted Harry Kane for being to ”chubby”, they must regret it now

[ajw]

Anyone can misjudge a young player. It's Chelsea's recent deliberate selling off of excellent senior pros that amazes me. How they could do with Azpilacuetta, Jorginho, Kovavic now.

[deadboygaming_]

9 years later an we got Palmer we good

[NoOne-]

Chelsea rejects be like I am gonna be the best player in the PL
Examples
Salah
De bryune
Rice
Etc..

[FreekaPista]

Chelsea went from having one of the best academies in England to struggling to bring any talent up. The new ownership has created a massive schism between their youth system and their senior team. Meanwhile Liverpool are able to bring a long list of young players into the senior squad and have them perform under pressure.

[TheAthleticFC]

Would he get into the Chelsea team now? 👀

[Uko_Kenny]

Oh my God if you see this guy playing for under 21 England 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮🔥

[uzins]

anybody that was rejected by chelsea is set to become a future supererstar!

[BFLAT]

Everytine one of these clubs worry about a player's height they then go on to become great. Is it like a cheat code 💀

[samueldesmondtuah]

The rejection made Harvey stronger. If Chelsea didn't reject him. He would not have done the training regime in the first place

[cedarstuff]

Chelsea can have this one-footed mediocre lightweight.

[ASouthAfrican-er]

As a Chelsea fan, i don't think we missed out on anything. Harvey Elliot is bang average.

[md.abdullaalwailykhanchowd]

It doesn't mean he's 4.3 million more expensive,
It means he's 4.3 million cheaper!

[Stephenheaven]

The way a player looks doesnt determine their ability to play football

[jimmyniful]

I thought it was because of the bird nest on his head.

[jackcawley]

How is Mainoo capped and Elliot not 😂😂😂😂

[petersugar]

clearly it worked means he is playing in europa league this season wow

[Liverpool-]

The Arsenal academy recejcted Harry Kane for being to ”chubby”, they must regret it now