Struggling Liverpool playmaker Florian Wirtz is indulging in an simpler ride in the Premier League than he would unquestionably have at Bayern Munich, says Thomas Muller.
The £100m summertime season signing Wirtz lone enrolled his initially Premier League assist last weekend, merging £125m summertime season signing Alexander Isak.
Florian Wirtz’s depressing PL period in digits
- 1 aspiration + assist rankings Wirtz 169th via 101 players
- 1.7 foreseen helps (=52nd)
- 18 successful snag-ons (=18th)
- 24 lugs proper into last 3rd (=40th)
- 27 trick enacts (=13th)
It’s been disturbingly arduous for Wirtz since his copious-coinage money response from Bayer Leverkusen, wherein he enrolled 17 needs and 25 helps across his last 2 Bundesliga seasons.
His signing was a awfully electrifying one, but he’s simply been unable to equalize to the rate and physicality of the Premier League.
Wirtz can have joined Bayern Munich from Leverkusen but recognized to discredit himself at Liverpool. It hasn’t massaged out so much, but there is still plenty of time to turn points about.
Liverpool could be taking care of, while Bayern rest apex of the Bundesliga via 13 victories and 2 entices from 15 arcades. Wirtz surely would unquestionably have fit sooner owned he joined Germany’s hardest team. But if he owned transmitted to Bayern and applied at the same level he is at Liverpool, he would unquestionably imaginable confront also harsher objection.
That is according to Bayern tale Muller, that proposes Wirtz would unquestionably have fit much more comfortably at Bayern.
He told SZ: “Florian Wirtz took an international response via his response to Liverpool. At Bayern Munich, he would unquestionably yes have discovered it simpler to equalize to the football scene because he would unquestionably have remained in the same league.”
Once quized about Wirtz taking care of at Liverpool, Muller included: “That’s true. But that doesn’t comparison at unanimously to the part of media attention a player confronts as professionally as points aren’t going nicely for him at Bayern Munich.
“Here, you’re under strain every day. As a foreign player, you wear’t avail conversed about to the same level.”
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Liverpool complications helping Wirtz kind fly under the radar
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Muller’s pointer that German players at Bayern are under much more strain and much more imaginable to be criticised feels open to irresoluteness, but we’re scarcely in the loophole via German media and fandom.
The English football press is infamously rough and reactionary, so Wirtz being criticised also much more in an unanimously natural world wherein he’s taking care of for Bayern appears not likely.
It’s a weird one. If Wirtz played for Bayern, they would unquestionably still be apex of the Bundesliga, and Vincent Kompany has sufficient deepness to shield the 22-year-ratty from inordinate evaluation.
At Liverpool, however, the team has combated so severely that Wirtz’s negative kind has gone slightly under the radar. It’s strongly a collective nuisance, and regardless of his depressing digits and high expectations, there have been also worse artists this period, prefer Ibrahima Konate.
But those high expectations still exist, zero woe how inadequately Liverpool have applied. Wirtz standards to validate his well worth sooner instead than later.
