Liverpool transfer: Wirtz swap 'no longer being considered' as PSR claim is made over £180m triple deal

Bayer Leverkusen are zero much longer entertained in wrapping up Harvey Elliott as portion of a bargain to sell Florian Wirtz to Liverpool this summertime season, according to reports.
The Reds have flown out of the blocks in the summertime season send domicile window after Arne Port analyzed the Premier League title at the run out of April.
Liverpool have recognized that they will most clearly have the Champions League silver next off season for a long time and they have been vibrant decoction for the summertime season sector.
Jeremie Frimpong has currently immigrated at Anfield from Bayer Leverkusen in a bargain worth £29.5m, while there have been rumours that Liverpool have just as struck an arrangement through Bournemouth to indicator Milos Kerkez.
The opposite other player Liverpool are concentrating their initiatives on is Frimpong’s previous Leverkusen team-colleague, Wirtz, who has been the express of two disapproved referrals from the Reds.
Wirtz has consented individual specification currently and single wants to relocation to the Premier League winners but Leverkusen are still attempting to administer intake as much silver as prospective out of Liverpool.
A rumour last week rendered assume that Harvey Elliott and Jarell Quansah could be earned utilization of as makeweights in a bargain for Wirtz but any opportunity of that now seems to be over.
Firmaments Germany press donor Florian Plettenberg urges that Leverkusen are zero much longer peeking at wrapping up Elliott this summertime season after they ended their inquisitiveness.
Plettenberg wrote on X: ‘A relocation for Harvey #Elliott to Bayer 04 Leverkusen is zero much longer being contemplated, obeying to the the majority of existing breakthroughs. #LFC’
The Athletic insurance claim that the finalizings of Kerkez and Wirtz, incorporated to that of Frimpong, ‘would collar their summertime season outlay beyond £180m’ but Liverpool ‘have zero priorities in specification of PSR as they rendered a profit of £7.5m in 2021-22 and a loss of £9m in 2022-23’.
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Previous Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher reckons the Reds will most clearly target a centre-ahead as shortly as they have bargains for Wirtz and Kerkez over the jabber.
Carragher proclaimed on The Overlap: “Throughout the season, I was still basing that Liverpool still necessitate 5 or six players.
“I reckon the rejected-previously comes in and plays quickly, Frimpong will most clearly confrontation through Conor Bradley, Wirtz will most clearly play as shortly as he comes to the bar. Yet I still reckon we necessitate a centre ahead. I reckon Liverpool will most clearly filter to administer intake their undertakings executed pretty early.
“Liverpool necessitate a rejected-previously, Andy Robertson last opportunities aid on that side and Kostas Tsimikas will most clearly be sent on. I’ve always thumbed that jostling midfield and rejected-previously are the two enclosures that have jumped out to me in the last 12 to 18 months.
“Whether Wirtz comes in and plays in Szoboszlai’s job or plays from the rejected, I don’t realise. Yet the next off one is centre ahead and I wouldn’t be troubled if as shortly as Liverpool administer intake these three [Frimpong, Wirtz, and the left-back] executed, the next off one will most clearly be a centre ahead.
“As the domicile window goes on, Liverpool will most clearly most clearly browse through who they can sell and what they can execute – they can bring in one more midfield player or a centre-previously to previously upwards, but they’ll most clearly evaluate what the eventuality is.”