{"id":126710,"date":"2025-05-24T01:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126710\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T01:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:19:04","slug":"its-flo-ver-germany-star-florian-wirtz-says-yes-to-liverpool-no-to-bayern-munich-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126710\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Flo-ver? Germany star Florian Wirtz says \u2018yes\u2019 to Liverpool, \u2018no\u2019 to Bayern Munich per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"vBaBjF\">News broke this morning that <a href=\"https:\/\/liverpooloffside.sbnation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool FC<\/a> had suddenly pulled ahead in the race for Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Germany men\u2019s national team star Florian Wirtz \u2014 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bavarianfootballworks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayern Munich<\/a>\u2019s expense.<\/p>\n<p id=\"dtZM5Y\">Now, the mega-transfer \u2014 Leverkusen has reportedly been holding out for some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bavarianfootballworks.com\/2025\/5\/12\/24428421\/report-bayer-leverkusen-permission-to-sell-florian-wirtz-for-150-million-bayern-munich-real-madrid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u20ac150M<\/a> \u2014 is looking close to happening.<\/p>\n<p id=\"gyvP39\">Sky Sport DE journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/plettigoal\/status\/1926012324084609311\">Florian Plettenberg<\/a> confirmed the state of play:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"L3nRC1\">   <a href=\"https:\/\/liverpooloffside.sbnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> FC had already agreed all important personal terms with Florian #Wirtz \u2013 just like FC Bayern. Internally at #LFC, the club\u2019s record transfer had already been approved, as reported today in our show. <\/p>\n<p id=\"ItWVC3\">The final \u201cyes\u201d from the player came today. Arne Slot personally spoke with Wirtz.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Klrzu3\">Liverpool are now preparing the official offer. Leverkusen are very optimistic that an agreement with LFC will be reached shortly. Wirtz turned down Bayern today.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0WOQhq\">@SkySportDE   <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"UuiJ49\">That\u2019s that, then? Bayern\u2019s long, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bavarianfootballworks.com\/2025\/2\/8\/24361048\/bayer-leverkusen-fernando-carro-uli-hoeness-florian-wirtz-bundesliga-bayern-munich-germany-musiala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public<\/a> courtship of Wirtz has apparently come to nothing, and the Germany MNT pairing of Wirtz with Bayern\u2019s Jamal Musiala will not be duplicated at club level. <\/p>\n<p id=\"pXGxoN\">It will be interesting to see what Slot and Liverpool have in mind for the 22-year-old&#8230;<\/p>\n<p id=\"Ckzdfk\">The Bavarian Podcast Works \u2014 Weekend Warm-up Show has dropped and we have a full slate of topics! Let\u2019s talk about where things stand between Bayern Munich and Florian Wirtz and which transfer is more important \u2014 Wirtz or Jonathan Tah? Plus, we\u2019ve got our official Weekend Warm-up Bundesliga Team of the Season and a follow-up on Bayern Munich\u2019s developmental woes that could be leaving doubt about a couple of prized prospects. You can get the show on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/bavarian-podcast-129693232?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&amp;utm_source=copyLink&amp;utm_campaign=postshare_creator&amp;utm_content=join_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patreon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3FDw2NCeQZQtABo1rGayI2?si=X98htY2BRmG51-LhEPfYQw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, or below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"UY54xS\">Also, be sure to stay tuned to Bavarian Podcast Works for all of your up to date coverage on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bavarianfootballworks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayern Munich<\/a> and Germany. Check us out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BavarianPodcastWorks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a> and follow us on Twitter @BavarianFBWorks, @BavarianPodcast @TheBarrelBlog, @BFWCyler, @2012nonexistent, @TommyAdams71 and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News broke this morning that Liverpool FC had suddenly pulled ahead in the race for Bayer 04 Leverkusen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6098,16759,25032,56031,25035,25033,25036,56028,25030,94,163,1824,6100,3673,179,18232,16760,19773,56030,2963,2955,24668,6101,79,6682,6093,25034,16,15,56029,25031,6099,8163],"class_list":{"0":"post-126710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bavarian","9":"tag-bayern","10":"tag-bayern-munich-bundesliga","11":"tag-bayern-munich-finances-board","12":"tag-bayern-munich-transfer-news-rumors","13":"tag-bayern-munich-transfer-rumors-news","14":"tag-english-premier-league-transfers-news-rumors","15":"tag-flo","16":"tag-florian","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-front-page","19":"tag-germany","20":"tag-germany-international-soccer","21":"tag-it","22":"tag-liverpool","23":"tag-liverpool-transfer-news-rumours","24":"tag-munich","25":"tag-no","26":"tag-per","27":"tag-report","28":"tag-s","29":"tag-says","30":"tag-soccer-sg","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-star","33":"tag-to","34":"tag-transfer-rumors","35":"tag-uk","36":"tag-united-kingdom","37":"tag-ver","38":"tag-wirtz","39":"tag-works","40":"tag-yes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126710","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=126710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}