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Liverpool star Florian Wirtz is interviewed by Sky Sports (Image: Sky Sports - YouTube screenshot) Wirtz recently participated in an interview with Sky Sports, where he responded to video messages from his nearest and dearest regarding his journey thus far before his switch to Liverpool. He put me in the position where I have to be, like behind the striker on the No.10 and just gave me the freedom.
They were coaches that gave me the confidence that I need, that I can just play my own game and be the best version of myself." Meanwhile, during one of Daun's video contributions, the manager revealed details of a particular meeting he once conducted with Wirtz and how it simply reinforced his conviction that his fellow German was bound for greatness. "I asked him in a meeting about his career goals," Daun recalled.
Learn more "I knew from the beginning that he will go his way until the top of the world." Wirtz would reveal his sole perspective on his Ballon d'Or aspirations, confessing with a laugh: "I was saying this every day when I was younger!". "I'm really happy about this (that I left Leverkusen on good terms)," he confessed.