Paul Scholes explains why Florian Wirtz is ‘like a little kid playing men’s football’ at Liverpool

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If you were Andoni Iraola, what would you do with him and why? 🤔Credit: Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images Paul Scholes questions Florian Wirtz’ desire to compete for Liverpool The issue with Wirtz is that the verbal pelters are coming from all over the place, and they are all pretty much saying the same thing. So, even if Iraola was thinking of dropping Wirtz, he probably can’t because he doesn’t have many options available to him right now.

“You can be aggressive like Nicky (Butt) was aggressive when he played, or you can be aggressive in the way you play football. “And, as Jamie (Carragher) said, ‘Take him out of the team.’ Sometimes, when you are £115m, you have to play every week.

“It doesn’t look like he has that bit of… I don’t think it hurts him enough. If he didn’t score a goal or make a goal in a game, I think he would be devastated.” Wirtz numbers at Liverpool What makes life even more difficult for Wirtz is that there was a lot of hype around his signing, given his success with Bayern Leverkusen under Xabi Alonso.