{"id":200631,"date":"2025-06-20T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200631\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T19:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:18:09","slug":"florian-wirtz-qa-i-feel-very-happy-and-proud-liverpool-is-the-place-i-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200631\/","title":{"rendered":"Florian Wirtz Q&A: ‘I feel very happy and proud – Liverpool is the place I want to be’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florian, it’s done. You are finally a Liverpool player \u2013 how are you feeling?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, I feel very happy and very proud. Finally it’s done and I was waiting for a long time \u2013 finally it’s done and I am really happy.<\/p>\n

It’s clear that you had some options this summer, including the chance to stay at Leverkusen. So, why Liverpool? Why is Liverpool the right choice?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I just thought that it was the right point in my career to make the next step and of course I wanted to get to a club that is from the top three in the world, and in my opinion Liverpool was one of them. Yeah, I just saw myself in the best hands in Liverpool. I was really convinced by the people here, by the idea, and everything what the club offers me was really good. And in the end [it was] also easy to be excited for me to come to Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Was the feeling you had after speaking to Liverpool that it was an easy decision to make?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, it was not that easy for me, for sure, because I am a German player, I play for the Germany national team. So, it was not easy for me to decide but I think the talks with the coach and Richard [Hughes] and everybody were, from the start or from the very first time, so good and it just kept going like this. Every time I spoke to one of the [people from] the club I felt like, ‘this is the place I want to be’ and so in the end I was really 100 per cent convinced I want to join Liverpool and it was the best choice.<\/p>\n

What did your family say about joining Liverpool?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think I was the first one in my family who was really into this club when they spoke to us or told us that they are interested in signing me. For sure, I didn’t expect that Liverpool will be my next club but my family was supporting me and I didn’t have to convince them about the club or something. Everything was so good and I wanted to join also a different league in the end. I think my family, they will love also to come here and spend time with me here and in the stadium. So, they will like it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florian, it’s done. You are finally a Liverpool player \u2013 how are you feeling? Yeah, I feel very…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,179,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-200631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool","20":"tag-liverpool-fc","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","22":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","23":"tag-liverpool-football-club","24":"tag-mane","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-salah","27":"tag-the-reds","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114717307960182245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200631","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=200631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}