Liverpool has agreed to pay a transfer fee of 116 million pounds ($157 million) for attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen.

Florian Wirtz knows what it is to be a wanted man. And now, six years after catching the eye of some of the game's biggest clubs, Wirtz is making the second high profile, contentious move of his career.

After a long transfer saga, Liverpool are close to securing the signing of Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen in what will be most expensive transfer in the club’s history at £116m. Liverpool saw