# Soccer: Liverpool have agreed a club-record deal worth up to 2.8-billion-rand to sign attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen. British media reported the Premier League champions would pay an initial 2.4-billion-rand, comfortably surpassing their own record outlay, but the performance-related add-ons, if achieved, would make it a potential British record. Liverpool’s total spend on the 22-year-old Germany international could surpass the amount Chelsea agreed to pay Brighton in 2023 for Moises Caicedo, who turned down Anfield.
Soccer: Liverpool agrees record-deal to sign Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen