Liverpool have sent shockwaves across European football even before the season has ended, and their boldness ahead of the transfer window has caught everyone off guard. Manchester City officials are reeling from what the Premier League champions have done.
Sporting director Richard Hughes came under pressure last summer after the only player Liverpool signed was Federico Chiesa, and Arne Slot deserves immense credit for still winning the Premier League.
However, winning the league has emboldened Liverpool, and Hughes’s move shows the stability behind the scenes at Anfield ahead of the next transfer window.
Premier League rivals who were expecting to catch up to Liverpool over the summer have been left reeling, particularly the executives at Manchester City.
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Manchester City officials are ‘stunned’ by the moves on Merseyside
Florian Wirtz has agreed to join Liverpool and has approved a move as the Reds push to negotiate a transfer fee with Bayer Leverkusen in the coming days.
Manchester City backed out of the race to sign him, citing worries about the overall cost of the deal. Still, according to TEAMTalk, they were also under the assumption that the midfielder was guaranteed to move to Bayern Munich this summer.
However, Liverpool’s ability to change the German’s mind and convince him to move to the Premier League with the Reds has stunned the Manchester City officials.
They walked away from the negotiations because they felt that Wirtz had given his commitment to Bayern Munich and wouldn’t be moving to England.
Manchester City executives are now fuming that Liverpool are set to beat them to the signature of their top target to replace Kevin De Bruyne.
Liverpool are set to break all sorts of transfer records to sign, given Leverkusen want as much as £126m from Wirtz’s sale this summer.
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