Liverpool are expected to sign Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen, having submitted a club-record £109 million bid for the Germany international.

Florian Wirtz took five days to decide to join Liverpool instead of Bayern Munich, says a German transfer expert who has revealed how Arne Slot swung the deal in the Reds' favour.

An outstanding German talent declining Bayern will leave a bruise, even more so given that this was not just a financial decision

Former Bayern Munich and Germany midfielder Toni Kroos left Germany and became a superstar. Now, the latest high-profile German will make the jump to England and hope to have the kind of success aboard that Kroos once had and not the career-killing experience that felled Timo Werner or the temporary derailment that Kai Havertz went through.

Hamann, a Champions League winner with Liverpool in 2005 and now a respected pundit in Germany, is full of praise for Wirtz. Speaking to Sky Germany (via Bild), he explained why the young German’s talents are so well-suited to Slot’s energetic and fluid style.

A lmost two weeks after learning that Florian Wirtz had rejected Bayern Munich executives are still reeling, but are sticking together rather than pointing fingers per Süddeutsch