Florian Wirtz’s father Hans dismissed the rampant criticism washing his son’s way, insisting instead that “everything is going as expected.”
When Liverpool agreed what was at the time a club-record £116 million ($152.6 million) fee to bring Wirtz to Merseyside from Bayer Leverkusen over the summer, there would have been few fans expecting the attacking midfielder to still be waiting for his first Premier League goal or assist by mid-November.
