It looks like it will be done. After weeks of negotiation, the transfer of Florian Wirtz is in the process of ending. And Bayer Leverkusen will recover one of the biggest checks in the history of football.
While everything was believing that he was going to give in to the sirens of Bayern Munich, the German international opted for Liverpool. This is what will push the Reds to break their piggy bank: according to Fabrizio Romano, the amount of the transfer could reach 150 million euros, depending on the bonuses.
Florian Wirtz could therefore settle on the podium of the most expensive players in history, behind Neymar (222 million euros) and Kylian Mbappé (180 million euros), the two follies of Paris Saint-Germain in 2017. At present, third place in the podium, according to TransferMakt, is busy jointly by Philippe Coutinho and Ousmane Dembélé, recruited for 135 million euros FC Barcelona, several years apart.
Liverpool destroys his piggy bank
This transfer should become the most expensive in the history of the Premier League, logically, in front of the 121 million euros paid by Chelsea to afford Enzo Fernandez. The Liverpool record is about to be exploded. The Reds had never spent more than the 85 million euros invested on Darwin Nunez or on Virgil Van Dijk in recent years.
Liverpool allows himself this transfer to leaving a season where Arne Slot led her team to the title without any recruit, or almost: only Federico Chiesa had arrived, for 12 million euros, and he played very little. Florian Wirtz should be the second recruit of the summer for the Champions of England, after the right side Jérémie Frimpong, bought 40 million euros … in Leverkusen, and designated replacement of Trent Alexander-Arnold. You can add the Georgian goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili, recruited last season and left on loan to Valence.
