Liverpool are set to make a \u2018final bid\u2019 of \u00a3118m for Florian Wirtz soon as they look to agree a deal with Bayer Leverkusen, according to reports.<\/p>\n
The Reds have been extremely active in the summer transfer window after Arne Slot\u2019s side were crowned Premier League champions at the end of April.<\/p>\n
Liverpool<\/strong><\/a> have had more time than most to prepare for the transfer market as they have known for ages that they would have Champions League qualification money ahead of next season.<\/p>\n And Liverpool have already signed Jeremie Frimpong from Bayer Leverkusen<\/strong><\/a> for a fee of \u00a329.5m with the Netherlands international replacing Trent Alexander-Arnold, who has joined Real Madrid ahead of the Club World Cup.<\/p>\n The Reds have also reportedly agreed personal terms with Hungary defender Milos Kerkez as they look to agree a fee with Bournemouth for his transfer.<\/p>\n While Leverkusen\u2019s Wirtz could be their marquee signing of the summer with Liverpool locked in negotiations to try and find a compromise over the German side\u2019s asking price.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Five times Liverpool failed with club-record transfers before Wirtz bids, including Van Dijk apology<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Liverpool have seen their latest bid of \u00a3113m rejected<\/strong><\/a> by the Bundesliga outfit and the Daily Mail now claim that<\/a> the Reds are \u2018set to make a final offer\u2019 for Wirtz.<\/p>\n Leverkusen \u2018are braced for\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0to make another big-money bid in the next 24 hours\u2019 with the Bundesliga side \u2018resigned to losing Wirtz but are keen to maximise the finances they receive for their prized asset\u2019.<\/p>\n The German club \u2018are asking for \u00a3126m \u2013 though the Reds are unprepared to go quite that far\u2019 and sources have told the Daily Mail that Leverkusen \u2018are now ready for what will likely be a final, written offer from Liverpool that could total \u00a3118m when factoring in bonuses and add-ons.\u2019<\/p>\n Despite the deal slowing down, all sides are \u2018confident a deal can be struck\u2019 with the Germany international \u2018desperate\u2019 to make the transfer to Liverpool.<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville insists it would be \u201csmart business\u201d from Liverpool if they can get Kerkez and Wirtz to join Frimpong at Anfield.<\/p>\n Neville told US Overlap last week: \u201cI think when you\u2019re talking about winning the league, what is it that improves you?<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, the only thing that\u2019s going to improve you when you win the league is signing world-class players, or players that have got the potential to be world-class players. So signing Wirtz is fantastic.<\/p>\n \u201cFrimpong and then there\u2019s talk of Kerkez as well, deals with their right and left-back situations.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, to get those three done, if they were to get those three done quite quickly, would be smart business. But I wouldn\u2019t have expected anything else from Liverpool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are set to make a \u2018final bid\u2019 of \u00a3118m for Florian Wirtz soon as they look to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,2912,4884,225,179,12,101,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-169900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","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-premier-league","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114652714348607897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169900","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=169900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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