Liverpool confirm Wirtz signing from Leverkusen in club record £116m deal and costing an initial fee of £100m.
Liverpool confirm Wirtz signature from Bayer Leverkusen.
Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen has officially joined Liverpool. The German will cost a club record £100 million, and with add-ons, his price might reach £116 million, making him the most costly British move.
After weeks of negotiations, Leverkusen’s asking price of €150 million (£127.6 million) was lowered, while Bayern Munich also expressed interest in the 22-year-old. Attacking midfielder Wirtz made 45 club appearances last season, tallying 16 goals and dishing out 15 assists. He is committed to Anfield for five years.
Wirtz, a 31-time German player, is Liverpool’s record-breaking acquisition, replacing Darwin Núñez. After a lacklustre stint, Núñez, who cost £85 million to acquire from Benfica in June 2022, is up for sale.
“I feel very happy and very proud. Finally it’s done and I was waiting for a long time,” Wirtz said on Liverpool’s website. “I’m really excited to have a new adventure in front of me. This was also a big point of my thoughts: that I want to have something completely new, to go out of the Bundesliga and to join the Premier League.
“I will see how I can perform. I hope I can do my best. I spoke also with some players who played [at Liverpool] and they told me that it’s perfect for me and every pitch is perfect, you can enjoy every game. I’m really looking forward to playing my first game.
“I would like to win everything every year. First of all, we have to do our work, I have to make my work. In the end, we want to be successful. Last season they won the Premier League so my goal is for sure to win it again and also to go further in the Champions League. I’m really ambitious.”