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Liverpool Go Big for Wirtz

ESPN FC

ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to Liverpool's reported record transfer fee to bring Florian Wirtz in. Then, Don Hutchison gives his early predictions on who could finish in the top 6 in the Premier League. Plus, Gustavo Hofman joins to talk about Rodrygo's future at Real Madrid.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.9

Welcome into the latest edition of ESPN-A-FC. I'm Dan Thomas on his very last day, not for the show, but here in Connecticut, as we know.

0:43.4

John Hutchison joins us.

0:45.5

Lots to talk about today.

0:46.7

Of course, the big news coming out of Liverpool is it looks like it is a done deal.

0:52.3

Florian Verts making now switch the Bundesliga to the Premier League.

0:57.0

136 euros, the fee, of course, one of the hottest players of his generation.

1:04.0

And it's interesting when you take a look at record fees, it smashes that of Enzo, Greelish, Rice and Caicedo, which of course held the record previously

1:14.3

over the past few seasons.

1:15.9

For more on this, Natham's with us as is Jules.

1:18.9

Jules, I suppose the interesting question looking at this is when you've got big players

1:22.5

like Bayern Munich and Manchester City involved, how did Liverpool get this done?

1:28.7

Because the player wanted to go there.

1:30.4

It's as simple as that.

1:31.5

Then he said no to Manchester City first.

1:34.2

Then he said no to Bayern Munich.

1:35.6

His father, who's also his advisor, his agent, if you want,

1:39.1

I think would rather him have gone.

1:41.6

And one city and Bayern were not in the race anymore. He was only Liverpool.

1:46.2

I think he liked the project that Arnold Scott presented to him. I think he liked the

1:50.6

fight that this is a team very much at the best of his ability right now, winning the Premier League,

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