{"id":153604,"date":"2025-06-03T01:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T01:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153604\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T01:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T01:58:12","slug":"florian-wirtz-transfer-latest-liverpool-still-10m-short-of-bayer-leverkusens-asking-price-for-germany-star-as-bundesliga-club-hold-out-for-british-record-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153604\/","title":{"rendered":"Florian Wirtz transfer latest: Liverpool still \u00a310m short of Bayer Leverkusen&#8217;s asking price for Germany star as Bundesliga club hold out for British-record fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Liverpool are favourites to sign Florian Wirtz with the forward keen on Anfield<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Bayer Leverkusen may ask for a Liverpool player to be included in the transfer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The Premier League champions are also working on a deal for Milos Kerkez<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By SIMON JONES <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  19:14 EDT, 2 June 2025   |  Updated:  19:58 EDT, 2 June 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/liverpool\/index.html\" id=\"mol-9079acc0-4006-11f0-94b5-c374c4e2518c\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> remain in negotiations with Bayer Leverkusen over a deal for Florian Wirtz. Bayer want \u00a3120million and Liverpool are at \u00a3109m but Wirtz has made it clear he wants the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Germany star has been convinced by <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/arne-slot\/index.html\" id=\"mol-907b0c50-4006-11f0-94b5-c374c4e2518c\" rel=\"noopener\">Arne Slot<\/a>\u2019s clear plan of where he will play in Liverpool\u2019s set-up as a No 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Should the Reds accede to Bayer&#8217;s demands, Wirtz would become the most expensive signing in British football, overtaking the \u00a3115m <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/chelsea\/index.html\" id=\"mol-9078e970-4006-11f0-94b5-c374c4e2518c\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> paid <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/brighton-and-hove-albion\/index.html\" id=\"mol-9078c260-4006-11f0-94b5-c374c4e2518c\" rel=\"noopener\">Brighton<\/a> for\u00a0Moises Caicedo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Richard Hughes, Liverpool\u2019s Sporting Director, has proposed a package to his Leverkusen counterpart Simon Rolfes with easily attainable performance-related bonuses, such as <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/champions_league\/index.html\" id=\"mol-907f03f0-4006-11f0-94b5-c374c4e2518c\" rel=\"noopener\">Champions League<\/a> qualification but the clubs are yet to agree a final fee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Talks will continue on Tuesday as the club attempt to find a middle ground.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">There is also a possibility that Bayer could bring a Liverpool player to Germany as part of the deal. Harvey Elliott and Jarell Quansah are both admired by Leverkusen, and either could be proposed as makeweight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-57b882a7e2e99d5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/98979769-0-image-a-46_1748904795765.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Liverpool are locked deep in talks with Bayer Leverkusen to sign Germany star Florian Wirtz\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Liverpool are locked deep in talks with Bayer Leverkusen to sign Germany star Florian Wirtz<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7258dece574fb07f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/98980085-14774107-image-a-49_1748905817461.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Reds boss Arne Slot wants Wirtz to play in the No 10 role for the Premier League champions\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Reds boss Arne Slot wants Wirtz to play in the No 10 role for the Premier League champions<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-4c0c83d10b8df047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/98979781-0-image-a-47_1748904798843.jpg\" height=\"421\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Any deal for Wirtz, who is keen to join Liverpool, is likely to break the British transfer record\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Any deal for Wirtz, who is keen to join Liverpool, is likely to break the British transfer record<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Liverpool have already successfully conducted business with Bayer this summer, signing\u00a0Jeremie Frimpong for \u00a329.5m last week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Further talks are expected to take place this week with Bournemouth also for \u00a340m-rated left-back Milos Kerkez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Hughes was Bournemouth&#8217;s technical director at the time the south coast club snapped up the Hungary international\u00a0from Dutch side AZ two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Liverpool have yet to receive an approach from Everton for Ben Doak despite the winger being of interest to manager David Moyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The former Celtic youth, who has been capped six times by Scotland at senior international level, spent the 2024-25 season out on loan at Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Doak impressed at the Riverside, producing seven assists and three goals in 24 Championship appearances.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Florian Wirtz transfer latest: Liverpool still \u00a310m short of Bayer Leverkusen&#8217;s asking price for Germany star as Bundesliga club hold out for British-record fee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are favourites to sign Florian Wirtz with the forward keen on Anfield Bayer Leverkusen may ask for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3018,3019,92,94,1824,179,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-153604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bayer-leverkusen","9":"tag-bundesliga","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-sport","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114616959836190111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153604","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=153604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}