Florian Wirtz wasted no time setting his ambitions at Liverpool - and what he did on his first day at the club shows he means it
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Florian Wirtz is the latest player to join Liverpool ahead of the 2025/26 season
Florian Wirtz is the latest player to join Liverpool ahead of the 2025/26 season
Florian Wirtz dropped a strong hint about his ambitions for Liverpool during his first official day at the club.
The 22-year-old was confirmed as a Liverpool player two days ago, joining in a deal worth £100m plus £16m in add-ons. The fee makes Wirtz Liverpool’s most expensive signing in history, overtaking Darwin Nunez’s £85m move in 2022.
The German international wasted no time in laying out his lofty targets. Speaking to the club’s official website, he said: "I would like to win everything every year! First of all, we have to do our work, I have to make my work.
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"In the end, we want to be successful. Last season they won the Premier League so my goal is for sure to win it again and also to go further in the Champions League. I'm really ambitious."
That ambition was clear from the moment he arrived. In a video shared on Liverpool’s official Instagram, Wirtz could be seen enjoying his first day at the club.
The new signing can be seen completing training drills, his media duties and being shown around the club's AXA Training Centre.
During his first tour of the club, Wirtz made time to pause and admire the club’s trophy cabinet—a small moment that speaks volumes about his mentality and desire to win silverware of his own.
He arrives at Anfield full of belief, joining a side that just lifted the Premier League title and is targeting more silverware under Arne Slot.
Wirtz is no stranger to success himself. The midfielder was instrumental in Bayer Leverkusen’s historic unbeaten Bundesliga title win in 2023/24, while also lifting the German Cup and German Super Cup.
Although Leverkusen missed out on a treble after losing to Atalanta in the Europa League final, Wirtz’s impact didn’t go unnoticed—he was named both Bundesliga Player of the Season and Young Player of the Season.
And he’s already faced his new team once. Wirtz was part of the Leverkusen side that lost 4-0 at Anfield last season, an experience that clearly left a lasting impression.
"It was really tough to play here," he continued. "I was still thinking about the game when I spoke to the coach or the other guys. It was an example [of] how it can be here.
"As I said, it was really hard, we lost 4-0 and we had to run so much and lost almost every duel. I just wanted to be part of this team."