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The bitter taste of losing Florian Wirtz to Liverpool still lingers at Bayern Munich, with the German club’s hierarchy unable to resist taking repeated swipes at both player and club in recent months.
From boardroom executives to legendary figures, Bayern’s senior voices have made their displeasure clear – Wirtz should have stayed home.
When Liverpool smashed their transfer record to land the 22-year-old playmaker for a package worth up to £116 million in June, it was a public and painful defeat for Bayern in the transfer battle.
The Bundesliga champions had pursued Wirtz for over a year, confident that their pedigree and tradition of attracting the nation’s best would seal the deal.
Instead, Arne Slot’s vision and Liverpool’s sporting ambitions swayed the midfielder to Merseyside
Bayern director Max Eberl, speaking last week, already tried to deflect the failed transfer as Wirtz wanting the No.10 jersey in Bavaria, citing that Jamal Musiala was already in possession of it.
Now Bayern honorary president Uli Hoeneß has come out of the woodwork to once again fire a shot at Liverpool.
Speaking to BILD, he said:
“They spent €500m and are having a disastrous season. In my opinion, that’s because they only have superstars. They only have chiefs and no workers. I always say: At Liverpool, they’ll soon have to play with five balls because the stars won’t give up any of them.”
“Poor Florian Wirtz, he doesn’t even get a ball there because Salah and Szoboszlai and all the others want to play with their own,” Hoeneß said.
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Bayern’s former CEO and current board member, stated in October that he “still feels sorry for Florian Wirtz” and believes the player “would have been better suited at Bayern Munich than at Liverpool”.
It seems that the Bavarian giants still have Wirtz in their heads some 5 months later.
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