The £100m man isn’t thinking about being the £100m man. Although, should he and Liverpool achieve the success together that they hope they will, he will become the £116m man and – as things stand anyway – not merely the club record signing but the British record. Perhaps it helped him adjust to a world of sizeable, seismic fees that, when Bayer Leverkusen put a €150m (£130m) price on him, Liverpool negotiated them down a bit, but the fee was still one to dwell upon. But not for Florian Wirtz.
“I don’t think about it,” he said. “I just want to play football and how much money the clubs pay between each other, it doesn’t matter.” No pressure there, then. Or none that he puts on himself. It may be, of course, that the German only spends a few weeks as the biggest buy in Liverpool’s history. They have already bid £110m for Alexander Isak, even if they have a reluctance to increase it after a swift rebuttal.
