Liverpool are set to cough up £8.55million to Florian Wirtz's parents as they move towards cementing the blockbuster signing. The German international is from Bayer Leverkusen.
Wirtz is until 2030 as complete a British record transfer. Arne Slot's side are stumping up £116million including add-ons and the 22-year-old will become the club's second highest paid player, behind .
But, with a , Wirtz will not be the only member of his family to benefit. The Leverkusen star has seen his career managed by his parents rather than an agency.
Wirtz's parents Hans and Karin have, and have negotiated on his behalf. And they will take a healthy cut in the deal as a result for their role.
, per , claim they will see €10m (£8.55m) over the course of their son's contract with Liverpool. Wirtz is set to undergo his medical on Friday after following his time on international duty for Germany in the UEFA Nations League.
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The playmaker will follow in the footsteps of Liverpool signing Jeremie Frimpong in making the move, and It's been a busy summer to so far at Anfield with the club having said goodbye to and . Wirtz's signing is set to be followed by the arrival of Milos Kerkez from .
Talks between Liverpool and Bournemouth continue with the Cherries having already added left-sided defender Adrien Truffert from Rennes in a £14.5m deal.
hinted at the end of the season that the Reds would be looking to move quickly. "We just want good players and ideally you sign them as soon as you can," he said.
"But it's not always easy to sign good players, let alone to sign them early in the window. But this club doesn't start working from today onwards.
"There is so much hard work being done behind the scenes already this season to find out which targets we have and try to sign them. I have all the confidence that if we've addressed the right player that we try to sign that player."
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