Liverpool has agreed to pay a transfer fee of 116 million pounds ($157 million) for attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen.

Wirtz has topped 30 goal involvements in each of the last two seasons. He racked up 37 in 2023-24 as Leverkusen won the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal double and reached the Europa League final, where defeat to Atalanta marked their sole loss of the season.

Florian Wirtz is set to join Liverpool for a transfer fee that could rise to £116 million ($157 million), and former Reds midfielder Dietmar Hamann expects him to succeed on Merseyside