Simon Rolfes on LinkedIn:
Dear Florian,
I don't want to write this. I would like to tell the world that you will stay at Bayer 04 Leverkusen for the rest of your career. But you decided to leave our club and to open a new chapter in your life. Of course, I totally respect that.
Love how unceremonious the Wirtz announcement was. No needless fluff aka 2 minute MTV-like hype shenanigans. Just the usual and ordinary stuff.
We may play heavy metal football but we don’t present players like rockstars.
Florian Wirtz always made perfect sense for us in every way from an on-pitch perspective.
The only question marks were 1) would we go well beyond £100m and 2) would he pick us above the likes of Bayern.
LFC played a blinder. He'll be worth every penny and then some.