{"id":363527,"date":"2025-08-22T02:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363527\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T02:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:16:47","slug":"florian-wirtz-team-mate-drops-hint-over-liverpool-transfer-advice-courting-me-at-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363527\/","title":{"rendered":"Florian Wirtz team-mate drops hint over Liverpool transfer advice – ‘Courting me at times’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bayern Munich defender Jonathan Tah has hinted Florian Wirtz tried to persuade him to join Liverpool this summer\"LiverpoolLiverpool attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz.(Image: Michael Steele\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Jonathan Tah has hinted Florian Wirtz tried to persuade him to join Liverpool this summer. The Germany international, who would have been out of contract, joined Bayern Munich in an \u20ac800k deal from Bayer Leverkusen back in May, with the Bundesliga champions paying a small fee in order for the defender to be released early to represent them at the FIFA Club World Cup.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old is one of a number of high-profile Leverkusen exits this summer, with Wirtz<\/a> moving to the Reds in a club-record deal worth up to \u00a3116m.<\/p>\n

Liverpool <\/a>also signed Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> from Leverkusen after activating his \u00a329.5m release clause, while Odilon Kossounou, Granit Xhaka, Lukas Hradecky and Armine Adli have departed for Atalanta, Sunderland, Monaco and Bournemouth respectively.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Premier League owner admits he regrets selling star player to Liverpool – ‘I wish’<\/a>READ MORE: Arne Slot sent blunt Rio Ngumoha Liverpool message as Tottenham transfer prediction made<\/a><\/p>\n

The Reds pulled off something of a transfer coup, luring Wirtz to Anfield<\/a> in particular, with Bayern Munich previously considered the favourites for his signature while Man City were also interested in the German.<\/p>\n

Tah is set to make his Bundesliga debut for Bayern on Friday night against RB Leipzig, after helping them win the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup last weekend by beating VfB Stuttgart.<\/p>\n

He was recently asked whether he had attempted to persuade Wirtz to join him at Bayern Munich, with the German hinting that transfer conversations with his former Leverkusen team-mate were actually concerning whether the defender would move to Anfield.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t want to give too much away,’ he told Kicker. \u201cMaybe he was also courting me at times because I wasn’t sure what was next either. We both made our decision, that’s good, that’s exactly how it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Frimpong recently revealed that he had also spoken with Wirtz about moving to Liverpool prior to the Reds making concrete moves for the pair.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes, towards the end of the season when there was speculation, we would talk about it, \u2018Imagine we both go there,\u201d he admitted to the club website<\/a>. \u201cAnd then obviously we\u2019d be like, \u2018Yeah, that would be nice, right?\u2019 But it was never planned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s my boy. I\u2019m pretty sure you know how good he is, you\u2019ve probably seen him. When we won the league [at Leverkusen], he was a big part of the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s always there in big moments, he always shows up. I don\u2019t need to say any more, you guys know how good he is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich defender Jonathan Tah has hinted Florian Wirtz tried to persuade him to join Liverpool this summerLiverpool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,2912,4884,18519,179,763,1596,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-363527","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-jeremie-frimpong","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-liverpool-fc","15":"tag-liverpool-fc-transfer-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115070019518186693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363527","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=363527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}