Liverpool are set to complete a cut-price deal for Florian Wirtz after Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s negotiating tactics were \u201cdestroyed\u201d by the player\u2019s agent, according to a football finance expert.<\/p>\n
The Reds have flown out of the blocks in the summer transfer market with their early Premier League title win helping them getting their transfer plans moving.<\/p>\n
Jeremie Frimpong has already signed in a \u00a329.5m deal from Bayer Leverkusen<\/strong><\/a>, while Bournemouth left-back Milos Kerkez has reportedly agreed personal terms ahead of a potential move.<\/p>\n But their marquee signing of the summer would be Wirtz with Liverpool<\/strong><\/a> reportedly making two bids for the Bayer Leverkusen attacking midfielder so far.<\/p>\n Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Liverpool are \u2018optimistic\u2019 that they can get a deal over the line with more negotiations coming this week.<\/p>\n Romano wrote on X<\/a>: \u2018Liverpool remain confident to finalize Florian Wirtz deal as new round of talks has been scheduled this week. Club optimistic to get the agreement sealed with Bayer Leverkusen soon.\u2019<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Champions League prize money table revealed: Liverpool earnings cover most of Wirtz fee<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Former\u00a0Man City\u00a0financial adviser Stefan Borson reckons Liverpool are now in a great position to seal a cut-price agreement to sign Wirtz as Leverkusen have lost some of their leverage.<\/p>\n Borson told\u00a0Football Insider<\/a>: \u201cI think the strategy of his agent, who is his father, is to remove any competition and, therefore, your auction has been destroyed if you\u2019re Leverkusen.<\/p>\n \u201cLiverpool can say \u2018We\u2019ll wait it out, the player wants to come, we\u2019ll pay a good fee, but we\u2019re not paying \u00a3125million, or we\u2019ll pay \u00a3125million if he wins the Ballon d\u2019Or within the next three years\u2019. Something like that.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an easy decision for Liverpool because if the player achieves those heights, it also means Liverpool have won everything.<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 \u201cI would expect probably the deal to be done. I guess Leverkusen\u2019s leverage is that they can say \u2018Well, to be honest, unless you\u2019re going to pay the fee, we\u2019ll keep him for another year\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think that feels like a bit of a bluff because clearly his contract is going to edge down. I don\u2019t know how attractive it would be for Wirtz to stay now.<\/p>\n \u201cIf he\u2019s got his mind set on moving, he\u2019s probably quite keen to move as soon as possible.<\/p>\n \u201cI think from where we are now, if you had to bet, you\u2019d say he\u2019ll end up at Liverpool for \u00a3100million down plus some add-ons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are set to complete a cut-price deal for Florian Wirtz after Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s negotiating tactics were \u201cdestroyed\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,2912,4884,225,179,12,1144,101,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-151825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-florian-wirtz","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-home-page","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-premier-league","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114613227580653071","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151825","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=151825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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