Source: Liverpool bid club-record $147M for Wirtz

Liverpool person submitted a club-record €130 cardinal ($147m) bid to motion Bayer Leverkusen playmaker Florian Wirtz this summer, a root has told ESPN.

The presumption enactment guardant by the Premier League champions would surpass the woody for striker Darwin Núñez successful 2022, which could yet scope £85m with add-ons.

Wirtz had been expected to stay successful the Bundesliga adjacent season, either with Leverkusen oregon with German champions Bayern Munich. However, a root has told ESPN Wirtz is keen connected a determination to the Premier League having been impressed by Arne Slot's plans.

The Germany international, who has registered 57 goals and 65 assists successful 197 appearances for Leverkusen, is highly rated astatine Anfield, having demonstrated the quality to play successful a assortment of attacking positions for some nine and country.

He had besides been linked with a determination to Manchester City and been earmarked arsenic a imaginable replacement for the outgoing Kevin De Bruyne.

However, ESPN antecedently reported that conversations with Leverkusen and Wirtz's representatives resulted successful City opting to locomotion away from the negotiating array arsenic nine bosses viewed the woody financially unviable.

Dialogue betwixt Liverpool and Leverkusen is already ongoing and follows a £30m deal for wing-back Jeremie Frimpong.