Overview

• Liverpool will pay an initial €118m fee with up to €19m in add-ons to acquire midfielder Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen.
• This outlay eclipses the club’s previous record spend on Darwin Nunez.
• Should all performance bonuses trigger, the total could surpass Chelsea’s €121m mark to become the Premier League’s highest transfer.
• The planned fee would place Wirtz as the third most expensive player in history behind Neymar and Mbappé.
• The club is evaluating possible sales of attackers such as Darwin Nunez or Federico Chiesa to offset the transfer costs.