Liverpool have submitted a club-record €130 million ($147m) bid to signal Bayer Leverkusen playmaker Florian Wirtz this summer season, a supply has advised ESPN.
The phrases put ahead by the Premier League champions would surpass the deal for striker Darwin Núñez in 2022, which might but attain £85m with add-ons.
Wirtz had been anticipated to stay within the Bundesliga subsequent season, both with Leverkusen or with German champions Bayern Munich. Nonetheless, a supply has advised ESPN that Wirtz is eager on a transfer to the Premier League, having been impressed by Arne Slot’s plans.
The Germany worldwide, who has registered 57 objectives and 65 assists in 197 appearances for Leverkusen, is extremely rated at Anfield, having demonstrated the flexibility to play in a wide range of attacking positions for each membership and nation.
He had additionally been linked with a transfer to Manchester Metropolis and been earmarked as a possible substitute for outgoing Kevin De Bruyne.
Nonetheless, ESPN beforehand reported that conversations with Leverkusen and Wirtz’s representatives resulted in Metropolis opting to stroll away from the negotiating desk as membership bosses considered the deal as financially unviable.
Dialogue between Liverpool and Leverkusen is already ongoing and follows a £30m deal for wing-back Jeremie Frimpong.