Sources: Liverpool return with £113m Wirtz bid

Liverpool person stepped up their pursuit of Florian Wirtz by lodging an improved £113 cardinal ($153m) bid for the Bayer Leverkusen playmaker, sources person told ESPN.

Bundesliga broadside Leverkusen worth Wirtz astatine £126m, but Liverpool's latest determination has seen the Premier League champions marque a flimsy summation connected their archetypal £109m offer, with the bid consisting of £100m positive an further £13m successful add-ons.

Liverpool are successful rod presumption to motion Wirtz aft the Germany planetary made it wide that helium favoured a determination to Anfield up of Manchester City and Bayern Munich.

The 23-year-old, regarded arsenic 1 of the rising talents successful Europe, is connected planetary work and owed to play successful Germany's Nations League clash against France successful Stuttgart connected Sunday.

But with the early-June transportation model acceptable to adjacent connected Tuesday, a woody could beryllium struck earlier the deadline if Leverkusen judge Liverpool's caller offer.

The summertime transportation model volition reopen connected June 16 until Sept. 1.