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has freshly admitted that he has never heard of Florian Wirtz.

Liverpool are in negotiations to sign the German 22-year-old, with talk of a final agreement reaching an eye-watering €150m (£126m).

As the ECHO understands, last Friday Liverpool began to make their move for Wirtz.



They had been primed and ready to go at a time it was reported either Bayer Leverkusen would retain his services or rivals Bayern Munich would steal the midfielder, then emerged that a choice had been made in the Reds' favour.

With no release clause it is going to be on Anfield chiefs to organise the terms of a deal from scratch, as a touted value of £126m means Liverpool would be committing a fee vastly higher than their current club-record spend on one player, £75m for Virgil van Dijk in January 2018.

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For that amount one would imagine the player involved has sent shockwaves reverberating across world football, but apparently not in Neymar's direction.

Now 33 years of age, the Brazilian returned to boyhood club Santos earlier this year and yesterday took part in a post-season friendly for Bundesliga outfit RB Leipzig in Sao Paulo.

Afterwards, media including Sky Sports Germany caught Neymar for an interview and asked him: "What do you think about Florian Wirtz?

Do you know Florian Wirtz from Germany?"

"No," he responded about the Liverpool transfer target with a plain expression to match.

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He had heard of Bayern's Jamal Musiala though, and paid his compliments.

Such a reaction is bound to please fans of the German champions after they suffered Wirtz's rejection.

But none of this changes that fact Liverpool are working towards the signing of Wirtz, a player who already has over 200 club career appearances to his name with such youth to boast of.

Little over a decade ago it was the generational attacking talent moving from Santos to Barca for £71.5m.

Four years later the £200m PSG paid made him the most expensive player of all time - a record that still stands - and he certainly has a trophy-laden club career to match.

But he was never truly able to be the star as injuries curtailed that career.
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