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Florian Wirtz of Germany(Image: Alex Grimm/Getty Images)

Liverpool are going with the Flo.

After a few weeks haggling with Bayer Leverkusen, a deal for attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz has been agreed with the Reds paying £100million with a further £16m made up of achievable add-ons.

The transfer is expected to go through when the window reopens next week and will make Wirtz the most expensive player in Liverpool's history - the 21st person to assume such an accolade since the Second World War.

While taking on such a mantle can weigh heavy on some shoulders, the Reds have a reasonably decent record in extracting full value from such purchases.

Success, though, isn't necessarily guaranteed.

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Wirtz will oust Darwin Nunez as the club record transfer, with the Uruguayan having arrived almost three years to the day the deal for the 22-year-old Germany international was reached on Friday.

Liverpool committed to spending £85.3m on Nunez, who was largely viewed as a signing championed by then boss Jurgen Klopp rather than being aggressively pursued by the Reds' recruitment team.

While by no means a failure, Nunez must be regarded as a qualified success at best.

Few would be surprised if Nunez departed this summer.

The same, though, cannot be said for the two record signings before the forward.

Torres had been a record buy in July 2007 when taken from Atletico Madrid, and flourished under Rafael Benitez before the ill-fated Roy Hodgson era accelerated his exit.

Djibril Cisse was signed by Gerard Houllier but only arrived after Benitez was appointed, and never truly regained momentum after a horror leg break at Blackburn Rovers.

All won multiple honours both home and abroad for Liverpool.

And if the late 1960s saw two players in Tony Hateley and Alun Evans who, for differing reasons, weren't quite able to live up to expectations, the earlier purchases of Emlyn Hughes and Ian St John most certainly did, along with the club's first post-war record signing, Albert Stubbins.

Wirtz, then, is following in the footsteps of some genuine Liverpool royalty both past and present.