Xabi Alonso asks Real Madrid to 'keep tabs' on Florian Wirtz after slow Liverpool start

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Madrid boss Xabi Alonso was the German playmaker's manager at Bayer Leverkusen, and there has been talk of a reunion if Liverpool decide to cash in on their £116million man.Wirtz began his spell in English football with an assist in the Community Shield, but hasn't been able to follow it up with another goal contribution in any of his nine Premier League or Champions League games. "I think if you play the style we play – so a high press – and the style Chelsea plays – a high press – it would be a surprise if both teams, with the quality that both teams have, that they never play through your press, so that would be unrealistic," he said."You go here to Stamford Bridge with them having eight injuries, so you're like, 'This can be positive, then they probably don't have the options from the bench.' But they did still have a few good options from the bench to impact the game.

So it would be unrealistic to expect that if you play Chelsea – they want to play out from the back – that they never play through your press, as we played through their press as well."Alonso goes into the international break celebrating a win for his team, but it didn't pass without injury worries. "We will continue the progression with their national teams."We can’t say if (Mbappe) will go with France or not, they will have to evaluate him in their national team.

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