Former Liverpool star Stan Collymore has warned the Reds not to sign Bayern Leverkusen’s Florian Wirtz.
Collymore, who from Nottingham Forest with a club-record transfer fee of £8.5M in the summer of 1995, spoke to Liverpool.com about how bringing in Wirtz should worry fans who are being sucked into a deal that is very unlike the club.
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“The slight discomfort from me, having been a big Liverpool signing, is that Liverpool traditionally have made players. People will say ‘look at how much they have spent in the last 20 years’, and I get it, but with players that have lots of room to develop
“Don’t get me wrong, Florian Wirtz has got a lot of room to develop, which in itself is a very exciting prospect, but they haven’t gone down the road that Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City have gone down — big, blockbuster signings.
“The last time it happened was Alberto Aquilani when there were banners on The Kop before he had even played a game. It feels a little bit like that in terms of it being ‘wow’.
