{"id":172503,"date":"2024-04-17T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T14:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/17\/bayer-leverkusen-confirm-florian-wirtz-price-tag\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T14:48:08","slug":"bayer-leverkusen-confirm-florian-wirtz-price-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/17\/bayer-leverkusen-confirm-florian-wirtz-price-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayer Leverkusen confirm Florian Wirtz price tag \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Bayer Leverkusen have vowed not to\u00a0sell\u00a0Florian Wirtz for less than a monstrous figure that would make him the fourth most expensive player of all-time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Racking up 35 goals and assists across 41 appearances in all competitions, Wirtz has been central to Leverkusen\u2019s success this season, including sealing a first-ever Bundesliga title over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of the stars of the team are attracting interest from across Europe, with Wirtz very much the jewel in the crown.\u00a0Manchester City\u00a0have long held interest in the 20-year-old attacker but face\u00a0competition from Liverpool and Bayern Munich. Real Madrid have been linked in recent days, while there has been ongoing speculation about Barcelona, Arsenal, Chelsea and\u00a0Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>But Leverkusen have drawn a firm line in the sand over valuation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is unsellable, but Wirtz will not leave for less than \u20ac150m,\u201d chief executive Fernando Carro told\u00a0<em>Radio Marca<\/em>\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n<p>That amount, the equivalent of \u00a3128m at the current exchange rate, would mean only Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Philippe Coutinho have ever cost more.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01hvnsgef9ps4p90v9vy.jpg\" alt=\"Florian Wirtz\" title=\"Florian Wirtz\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Wirtz is a Bundesliga title winner this season \/ Christof Koepsel\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Speaking in December, Wirtz\u2019s father and agent suggested the immediate plan for the player is to remain with Leverkusen, where he is under contract until 2027, for at least another year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, everything is geared towards Florian continuing to play in Leverkusen next season,\u201d he told\u00a0<em>Sky Sport Germany<\/em>\u00a0at the time, although emphasis on the word currently might suggest that stance was open to change depending how the rest of the campaign has panned out.<\/p>\n<p>The longstanding preference for Wirtz\u2019s camp has been to stay in Germany at this stage of his career, which makes\u00a0Bayern\u00a0an obvious destination. However, given that Leverkusen have embarrassed the Bavarian giants this season, that could be considered a step down from a footballing perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Leverkusen can offer Champions League football to Wirtz in 2024\/25 and would even be a contender to go to the latter stages of the competition if they can keep together a title-winning team on the cusp of laying down an unbeaten\u00a0Bundesliga\u00a0season and setting a new all-time points record. He has never played at European club football\u2019s highest level, having missed Leverkusen\u2019s appearance in the 2022\/23 group stage while in the final stages of recovery from an ACL injury.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayer Leverkusen have vowed not to\u00a0sell\u00a0Florian Wirtz for less than a monstrous figure that would make him the fourth most expensive player of all-time. Racking up 35 goals and assists across 41 appearances in all competitions, Wirtz has been central to Leverkusen\u2019s success this season, including sealing a first-ever Bundesliga title over the weekend. Plenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bayer Leverkusen confirm Florian Wirtz price tag \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/17\/bayer-leverkusen-confirm-florian-wirtz-price-tag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bayer Leverkusen confirm Florian Wirtz price tag \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bayer Leverkusen have vowed not to\u00a0sell\u00a0Florian Wirtz for less than a monstrous figure that would make him the fourth most expensive player of all-time. 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