Liverpool have agreed a deal to sign Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen for an initial $135 million, according to CBS Sports sources. The agreement to sign the German international could ultimately break the British transfer record set by Chelsea when they signed Enzo Fernandez from Benfica for just short of $145 million.

Florian Wirtz will finalise his British-record transfer from Bayer Leverkusen to Liverpool; the Reds had been tracking the Germany international since 2020; the 22-year-old attacking midfielder could

Has Florian Wirtz made a ‘Liverpool transfer U-turn’? Has he balls. He didn’t even make a Bayern Munich transfer U-turn; he never agreed to join the German champions. Hell, he hasn’t even been ‘criticised’, but who gives a toss when you can pretend that the Liverpool deal has fallen through?