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Liverpool have confirmed the signing of Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen with the midfielder declaring his need to ‘win every little thing’. The German will value a membership file £100m and his worth may rise with add-ons to £116m, which might make him the costliest British switch.
Leverkusen had wished €150m (£127.6m) for the 22-year-old, who additionally attracted curiosity from Bayern Munich, however weeks of talks introduced down the value. Wirtz, an attacking midfielder, scored 16 targets and offered 15 assists up to now season in 45 membership appearances. He has signed a five-year deal at Anfield.
Wirtz, who has performed 31 instances for Germany, succeeds Darwin Núñez as Liverpool’s file signing. Núñez arrived from Benfica in June 2022 in an £85m deal however the ahead is on the market after an underwhelming spell.
“I really feel very pleased and really proud. Lastly it’s accomplished and I used to be ready for a very long time,” Wirtz stated on Liverpool’s web site. “I’m actually excited to have a brand new journey in entrance of me. This was additionally an enormous level of my ideas: that I wish to have one thing utterly new, to exit of the Bundesliga and to hitch the Premier League.
“I’ll see how I can carry out. I hope I can do my greatest. I spoke additionally with some gamers who performed [at Liverpool] and so they informed me that it’s good for me and each pitch is ideal, you possibly can get pleasure from each sport. I’m actually wanting ahead to taking part in my first sport.
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“I want to win every little thing yearly. To start with, now we have to do our work, I’ve to make my work. In the long run, we wish to achieve success. Final season they gained the Premier League so my purpose is for certain to win it once more and likewise to go additional within the Champions League. I’m actually bold.”
Liverpool have additionally purchased Jeremie Frimpong, a right-back, from Leverkusen for £29.5m and have agreed a £40m deal to purchase the left-back Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth. Kerkez is due for a medical subsequent week with a view to signing a five-year deal and Liverpool are additionally eager on the Crystal Palace defender Marc Guéhi.
In an extra a part of the squad renewal the goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili will full his transfer to Anfield from Valencia in a £29m deal agreed final summer season. Liverpool are in talks with Leverkusen over promoting the England Below-21s defender Jarell Quansah to the Bundesliga membership.
