Liverpool know Florian Wirtz truth after Germany 'superstar crisis' claims

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He is an attacking midfielder who already possesses the ability to change the outcome of a match on a sixpence, but he is still also a 22-year-old learning his way in the world.

Wirtz commanded such a huge fee because he has already proven himself capable of coping with the demands of professional football.

That is why the Reds were not only comfortable with challenging rivals who would barely raise an eyebrow to spending a nine-figure sum on one player alone, but beating them too.



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We're still in the infancy of Wirtz's long and hopefully prosperous Liverpool career, so it would just be plainly fickle to jump to any conclusions after one Community Shield match and three more in the Premier League, right?

Talk about jumping the gun, but the German media haven't exactly let Wirtz off lightly in the aftermath of the country's shock 2-0 defeat to Slovakia in their opening FIFA World Cup qualifier on Thursday night.

BILD's individual analysis of the midfielder, brutally titled 'superstar crisis', has plenty to digest in itself before questioning 'what is going on with Wirtz?'

They write: "Since his mega-transfer to Liverpool, things haven't been going well.

At least: Against Arsenal, Wirtz played his best competitive game so far in a Liverpool shirt.

"He was particularly impressive in the second half: 46 touches, 100 percent successful dribbles, 71 percent won tackles.

For one, it is not as if this collective crop that makes up the German national team are cut from the same cloth as 2014's World Cup winners.

They haven't been at the top level for the best part of a decade and their latest run of one win, two draws, and three losses in Julian Nagelsmann's last six matches isn't going to change by the influence of one talented individual alone.

Wirtz is actively dealing with the pressures of everything that took place this summer.

In the month around his 22nd birthday he took the decision with his family's help to move to an entirely difficult country, to the world's most difficult league to compete in, and even still, it was to join the reigning champions of that division.

That is a challenge he himself has recognised, having said it was: "the more difficult step to leave that whole environment [Germany] and go to another country with all the changes.