Gary Neville has praised Liverpool‘s planned summer transfer business but admits he’s “surprised” they’re ready to pay such a large fee for Bayer Leverkusen attacker Florian Wirtz.
He told the It’s Called Soccer podcast: “I think when you’re talking about winning the league, what is it that improves you?
“I mean, the only thing that’s going to improve you when you win the league is signing world-class players, or players that have got the potential to be world-class players. So signing Wirtz is fantastic.
“Frimpong and then there’s talk of [Milos] Kerkez as well, deals with their right and left-back situations. So to get those three done, if they were to get those three done quite quickly would be smart business. But I wouldn’t have expected anything else from Liverpool.
“[I’m] maybe slightly surprised that they’ve gone so heavy on Wirtz in terms of the fee. They don’t normally go that big, but Slot deserves it, by the way. He waited 12 months for a player to sign.”