Lower than two months after changing into Liverpool’s club-record signing, Florian Wirtz might return to Leverkusen subsequent week.
The Germany playmaker left Bayer 04 for the Premier League champions on 20 June in a £116m dealwith appreciable pleasure amongst Reds supporters on the considered what he might produce on Merseyside over the approaching years, having been hailed as probably one of many ‘finest on this planet’ by worldwide teammate Ilkay Gundogan.
The timing of the switch meant that he didn’t get a correct likelihood to say goodbye to followers of his former membership, however plans are afoot for that to be rectified.
Leverkusen planning official farewell for Wirtz
In keeping with Sport.deBayer Leverkusen are planning an official farewell to Wirtz subsequent Tuesday, when Erik ten Hag’s aspect host Serie A newcomers Pisa in a pleasant on the BayArena.
Sources have indicated that ‘it’s the absolute will’ of the Bundesliga membership – and certainly the 22-year-old – for him to have the chance to say goodbye to their supporters, having not been in a position to take action on the finish of final season because it was unclear at that stage whether or not or not he would go away.
The ceremony is deliberate for the day after Liverpool tackle Athletic Bilbao in a double header at Anfield, and the German outfit have lodged a request to the Merseysiders to launch the participant from coaching for subsequent Tuesday and Wednesday.
No determination has but been created from L4 as as to whether or not Wirtz shall be granted permission to return to his former membership for the proposed farewell.
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Comprehensible from Leverkusen, however not ultimate for Liverpool
Having gone from being a teenage starlet to a world celebrity in his 5 years at Leverkusen – the place he was a key participant of their unbeaten home double in 2023/24 – it’d be tough to begrudge the participant his likelihood to say a correct goodbye to the membership’s followers on the BayArena subsequent Tuesday.
Nevertheless, he’s now an worker of Liverpool FC, and it wouldn’t be ultimate for him to overlook two days of coaching so near the beginning of the Premier League season (and within the week main as much as the Group Protect).
A number of beloved Reds who moved on from Merseyside in recent times by no means had their likelihood for a poignant farewell in entrance of a packed Anfield – Adam Lallana, Sadio Mane and Luis Diaz spring to thoughts.
If Wirtz is determined for the chance to return to Leverkusen and present his appreciation for his former membership, and if him doing so wouldn’t be overly disruptive to LFC’s pre-season preparations, then it appears doubtless that he’ll obtain his employers’ blessing to make the journey to Germany.
Followers of Bayer 04 actually can’t be blamed for wanting the possibility to say goodbye to probably the greatest gamers of their trendy historical past, one who’ll hopefully go on to earn a equally deified standing among the many Liverpool trustworthy within the coming years.
