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Liverpool have reached an agreement with Bayer Leverkusen to make Florian Wirtz the most expensive player of all time at Anfield.

Liverpool will pay an initial fee of £100m with the rest made up of add-ons worth £16m and the deal comes after three weeks of detailed negotiations, which intensified after Wirtz and his entourage informed all parties of their decision to choose Liverpool over Bayern Munich on May 23.

Wirtz will now undergo a medical and is expected to be confirmed as a Liverpool player when the transfer window re-opens next week before taking a short end-of-season holiday ahead of reporting for training at the AXA Centre in Kirkby next month.

Liverpool return to pre-season training on July 7 and Wirtz is expected to be part of the contingent that reports back for duty at the £50m training complex ahead of a friendly with Preston North End at Deepdale later that week.

Liverpool initially believed Wirtz would choose to stay put in his homeland with either Leverkusen or Bayern when they made their initial pitch last month, but after a short break in Corsica, the gifted playmaker and his parents decided that a move to Anfield would be the best decision for his career, while misplaced Munich confidence was also said to have 'greatly irritated' the Wirtz family as the player weighed up his options.

The Bundesliga player of the season then took to social media to dismiss claims in Germany media that he was demanding Alexis Mac Allister's No.10 shirt at Anfield, posting on his Instagram story on June 3: "Who says I want the 10(?) I respect players.