Romano writes of agreement
© Imago
FC Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen agreed on the transfer of Florian Wirtz (22) on Tuesday – that writes transfer expert Fabrizio Romano on X. Accordingly, the Werkelf should receive its desired revenue of up to 150 million euros if all bonuses are reached. According to “Sky” in England and “The athletic“However, you are not that far.
Rather, the Reds should have made it clear during the negotiations that they are not ready to pay 150 million euros. Both Romano and Kaveh Solhekol from “Sky” and David Ornstein from “The Athletic” are among the best informed journalists in the football world-whoever trusts in this phase of the transfer spoker is left to every fan.
Clearly it seems: Wirtz will leave the Bundesliga in the direction of Anfield. Now it is about how many transfer records he breaks. According to “Sky”, the latest offer was the equivalent of EUR 134.1 million: 118.7 million replacement plus 15.4 million euros in bonuses. This was not rejected by Bayer – one is working on the subtleties of the deal. The current market value of the most valuable footballer with Jamal Musiala amounts to 140 million euros.
In the event of a transfer, Wirtz Bayer Germost Kai Havertz will replace the most expensive German in football history and Enzo Fernández as the most expensive purchase of the Premier League history. The most expensive transfer in the Bundesliga is, including Boni Ousmane Dembélé, for which BVB received 135 million euros from FC Barcelona and the most expensive player in the English elite league has been Philippe Coutinho since 2018, for which Barça paid 135 million euros to the Reds.
Wirtz has been in agreement with the English champion for weeks – according to him, a salary of around 20 million euros gross awaits him annually. In this way, he would line up to around EUR 25 million per season at the Reds behind the prospective, Klublegend Virgil van Dijk (33) and Mohamed Salah (32), which were rated to around 25 million euros per season by 2027.