German Football Association sporting director Rudi Völler has weighed in on Florian Wirtz’s struggles at the start of his Liverpool career, putting his slow start down to a wider team issue.
Wirtz, off the back of two excellent seasons in the Bundesliga with Bayer Leverkusen, signed for Liverpool in a then-club-record £116 million ($155.4 million) deal. The Reds subsequently broke their transfer record again to eventually bring Alexander Isak to the club amid a historic summer splurge, and many projected the champions to stroll to a second straight league title in 2025–26.
