He is not just finding space but creating it, manoeuvring you just where he wants you, making you dismantle yourself. He is the only ghost you actually need to be scared of.
Most strikers would be jealous of his finishing ability. As an attacking midfielder, there is no obvious flaw in his game. Oh, and he has just turned 22.
Wirtz won the 2023-24 Bundesliga Player of the Season (Photo: Getty)
This is one of the most talented prospects in football, the 2023-24 Bundesliga Player of the Season in an invincible Bayer Leverkusen side which also won the DFB Pokal and reached the Europa League final.
And yet somehow the macro numbers are the least impressive thing about him.
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He was in the 97th percentile for successful take-ons per 90 (3.14), while also ranking high for progressive carries and carrying distance.
“Florian is just a huge asset for this team with his care-free nature,” Hansi Flick said when Germany head coach.
An obvious Premier League comparator is Cole Palmer, albeit right-footed. He has even had his own “chippy chips” moment, going viral for declaring his favourite food is “normal potatoes” in a national team clip. Also like Palmer, he still doesn’t get why everyone finds it so funny.
“It’s one of my strengths that sometimes I know in advance what will happen — and then I can concentrate on the solution, so that I anticipate the situation and create an advantage.
How could Liverpool line up with Florian Wirtz?
And there is no question he would have to learn if he joined Liverpool – learn to thrive in a system not built around him, learn to adapt to the Premier League, learn the differences between Xabi Alonso’s and Arne Slot’s systems.
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For Liverpool, he would provide an improvement on and alternative to Dominik Szoboszlai through the centre, with the ability to play on the left and right wing, alternating through matches as Slot tends to.
Liverpool’s recent success has been almost entirely built upon having the best goalkeeper, centre-back, right-back and right-winger in the Premier League.
The supporting cast has been interchangeable, but it has been able to be. This is clearly how Michael Edwards believes a great squad is constructed – from the foundations up. There are few better foundational players anywhere in the world than Wirtz.
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