Florian Wirtz strong message sent as Liverpool told £116m man needs time among 'superstars'

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And then he comes into a team that consists only of superstars."He has to fight his way through step by step - and he will. He will then face Reds team-mate Conor Bradley when Julian Nagelsmann's side face Northern Ireland on Monday.Klinsmann is not the only German football great to leap to the defence of Wirtz in recent days.Germany national team director Rudi Voller, who won the 1990 World Cup alongside strike-partner Klinsmann, said: “The big difference is: at Bayer Leverkusen, despite the individual quality of the other players, he was always looked for.“Players like Granit Xhaka, Alejandro Grimaldo or Robert Andrich certainly ran the game.

Even as a young guy, he was already the chief.“I deliberately watched some Liverpool games with him: he does an incredible amount of work, runs a lot, makes many sprints, and also goes deep.“But he isn’t played to in the way he was used to at Leverkusen or with the national team.“That’s something that has to be developed over weeks and months. Florian isn’t like that.“He’s not only an extraordinary footballer, he also has a great character.

He also has incredible running stats. We should be happy that we have such a player in Germany."And Lahm said: “I'm not worried about Florian Wirtz at all because he's such an outstanding, brilliant player who simply makes his team-mates better."Quality and class always prevail, and that will absolutely be the case with Florian Wirtz."