Liverpool haven’t needed to wait lengthy for a response from Bayer Leverkusen to their newest supply for Florian Wirtz.
On Friday, The Athletic reported that the Reds had submitted an ‘improved second bid’ to the Bundesliga runners-up price as much as £109m, ‘a top-end quantity’ comprising a assured payment and potential add-ons.
Christian Falk has revealed that the 22-year-old would favor a transfer to Anfield over Bayern Munich on account of Arne Slot convincing him that he’d have ‘possession of the quantity 10 function’ with the Premier League champions, one thing he couldn’t be ensures on the Allianz Enviornment on account of Jamal Musiala’s presence.
Leverkusen reject Liverpool’s newest supply for Wirtz
As reported by Paul Joyce for The Occasions on Friday night time, Liverpool have obtained a swift reply from Leverkusen concerning their newest try and signal Wirtz.
The £109m supply hasn’t been accepted by the Bundesliga outfit, though the journalist insisted that the importance of the bid ‘shouldn’t be underestimated’.
There’s additionally a hopeful word for Reds followers, who’re suggested that ‘there isn’t a sense that an accord is not going to be reached over the approaching days’.
Liverpool might find yourself spending round £125m to signal Wirtz
Dependable stories had indicated that Leverkusen set an asking worth of €150m (£126.5m) for Wirtz, so Liverpool would’ve been conscious from the get-go that they’d doubtless have to enter the unchartered territory of a £100m+ signing in the event that they’re to safe the German’s signature.
FSG had been by no means prone to dive in head-first with a proposal to match the Bundesliga membership’s reported price ticket, as an alternative coming in decrease to check the waters with the BayArena hierarchy and maybe see how a lot compromise they may obtain.
Evidently, ought to the deal get executed, the eventual payment will are available at across the £125m mark that Die Werkself had been demanding. To spend that a lot on one participant would characterize a unprecedented present of religion from LFC, however the worth of their newest supply clearly exhibits how excessive they’re prepared to go as a way to land him.
With Wirtz himself eager on becoming a member of Liverpool, an improved third bid may simply be sufficient to get the inexperienced mild from Leverkusen, who’ll recognise that it may very well be nigh-on unimaginable for them to maintain maintain of the participant for subsequent season.
The payment they’ll finally financial institution from promoting the 22-year-old (on high of the £30m they’re set to obtain for Jeremie Frimpong) might fund a switch bonanza for Erik ten Hag this summer time, and this has the makings of a transaction which’ll finally fulfill all events, assuming there are not any nasty curveballs thrown into the combination.
