{"id":101257,"date":"2025-05-14T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101257\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:42:08","slug":"liverpool-contact-florian-wirtz-representatives-to-express-interest-in-bayern-leverkusen-attacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/101257\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool contact Florian Wirtz representatives to express interest in Bayern Leverkusen attacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have made contact with the representatives of Florian Wirtz to express an interest in signing him if he leaves Bayer Leverkusen and is keen on moving to England.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old attacker is among the most sought-after talents in world football, with Bayern Munich and Manchester City also keen.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool\u2019s admiration is long-standing but it is unclear whether Wirtz intends to depart the team or country he is playing in at present.<\/p>\n<p>Should this emerge as a genuine possibility, the Premier League champions would be ready to explore a deal and that is why they are one of the clubs in touch with his camp about the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Wirtz was a key player in Leverkusen\u2019s title run last season, scoring 11 goals and adding 12 assists as Xabi Alonso\u2019s side won a first Bundesliga crown in their history.<\/p>\n<p>He has become one of European football\u2019s most coveted players after that sterling 2023-24 campaign, when he won Bundesliga player of the season as Leverkusen went undefeated domestically and reached the Europa League final, losing to Atalanta.<\/p>\n<p>Wirtz has continued to impress in 2024-25, scoring 10 goals and providing 12 assists in the Bundesliga this season.<\/p>\n<p>The playmaker is contracted through to 2027 with Leverkusen, whose CEO Fernando Carro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6274509\/2025\/04\/12\/florian-wirtz-transfer-leverkusen-bayern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in April<\/a> the player had a \u201cvery high chance\u201d of staying at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Wirtz has played 29 times for Germany and was part of Julian Nagelsmann\u2019s squad at Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Arne Slot\u2019s Liverpool were confirmed as Premier League champions last month in the head coach\u2019s first season in charge since joining last summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Pau Barrena\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have made contact with the representatives of Florian Wirtz to express an interest in signing him if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[3018,748,3019,393,1824,4884,179,101,10031,2027,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-101257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-bayer-leverkusen","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-bundesliga","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-soccer","17":"tag-sports-betting","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114507189121070321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}