Liverpool and Bayern Munich are both interested in signing Florian Wirtz this summer and the Reds responded to claims from Uli Hoonheid that they have already met the player's representatives
Liverpool responded to claims that the club Bayer Leverkusen -star Florian Wirtz has met prior to a potential summer movement to Anfield. Wirtz is strongly connected to a relocation of Leverkusen, after he played since he was a 17-year-old in the first team in 2020.
Recently it turned out that Manchester City has withdrawn from the race to sign Wirtz because of financial concerns about the deal, although Liverpool and Bayern Munich remain interested in the playmaker.
Bayern's honorary doctorate President Uli Hoogenheid was recently questioned about the interest of the club in Wirtz and claimed that the 22-year-old Liverpool has already met. Speaking after the last game of Bayern of the season on Sunday, hookness said: “What can I tell you now?
“You have been writing nonsense about him for weeks who went to Manchester City, even though he was in Liverpool. We will give you facts at some point, no more speculation!”
De Times, however, states that Liverpool has insisted that a 'meeting did not take place' between the club and the representatives of Wirtz. The report adds that Liverpool and Bayern in a 'tug of war' are over a £ 126 million swoop for Wirtz.
Liverpool is already in more detail when signing Wirtz's Leverkusen teammate Jeremie Frimpong, after he has agreed to meet the release clause of £ 30 million in the full-back contract.
Frimpong has been set to replace Trent Alexander-Arnold after the International of England had announced that he would leave Liverpool at the end of the season when his contract expires, with Real Madrid expects to sign him on a free transfer.
“After 20 years at Liverpool Football Club, it is now time for me to confirm that I will leave at the end of the season,” Alexander-Arnold announced earlier this month. “This is easy to make the most difficult decision I have ever made in my life.
“This club has been my whole life – my whole world – for 20 years. From the academy to date, the support and love that I have felt from everyone inside and outside the club will stay with me forever. I will be in debt forever. My love for this club will never die.”
Frimpong joined the Liverpool academy almost at the age of nine, but in the end he signed for Manchester City because Merseyside was too “far away”. He explained: “There were many scouts, but Liverpool was my first choice.
“I wanted to sign there, but then nobody drove a car and Liverpool was far away. Manchester City was much closer, so that was much more logical.”