{"id":493472,"date":"2025-06-20T14:35:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T18:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=493472"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T18:35:43","slug":"liverpool-break-transfer-record-to-sign-florian-wirtz-for-135-million","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/liverpool-break-transfer-record-to-sign-florian-wirtz-for-135-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool break transfer record to sign Florian Wirtz for 135 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have completed the signing of German playmaker Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen for a club-record fee of 135 million euros, making him the most expensive signing in the club\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old has agreed to a five-year contract that will keep him at Anfield until at least 2030, following a successful medical at Liverpool\u2019s training ground on Friday. The deal includes a guaranteed 110 million euros fee, with an additional 25 million euros in performance-based add-ons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Poetry in motion. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lV1xMQgPac\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lV1xMQgPac<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liverpool FC (@LFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFC\/status\/1936128163408678968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If all bonuses are activated, Wirtz\u2019s transfer would surpass the British transfer record of 125 million euros that Chelsea paid Benfica for Enzo Fernandez in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Wirtz arrives after a standout spell at Leverkusen, where he scored 57 goals in 197 appearances. He becomes Liverpool\u2019s second major signing of the summer, following the arrival of Jeremie Frimpong from Leverkusen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlorianFriday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FlorianFriday<\/a>&#8230; \ud83d\ude09 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bVCr18NV6T\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bVCr18NV6T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liverpool FC (@LFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFC\/status\/1936125412238626935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the announcement, Wirtz expressed his ambition to compete for major trophies with the Reds: \u201cLast season they won the Premier League, so my goal is for sure to win it again and also to go further in the Champions League. I\u2019m really ambitious,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted something completely new \u2014 to go out of the Bundesliga and to join the Premier League. I\u2019m really looking forward to playing my first game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The German international added that advice from fellow players who had played in the Premier League helped him decide: \u201cThey told me it\u2019s perfect for me \u2014 every pitch, every game. I can enjoy every minute.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have completed the signing of German playmaker Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen for a club-record fee of 135 million euros, making him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":493476,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22200,16722,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[22201,17887,17886],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The German international could become the most expensive arrival in Premier League if all included bonuses in the deal are activated","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493477,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493472\/revisions\/493477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493472"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=493472"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=493472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}