{"id":104111,"date":"2025-10-06T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=104111"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:44:00","slug":"liverpool-wirtz-voller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/liverpool-wirtz-voller\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00fcdi V\u00f6ller on Florian Wirtz’s (22) slow start to his Liverpool career: “He doesn’t get passed to the way he was used to in Leverkusen or the national team.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Speaking to\u00a0Sky90<\/strong><\/a>, Germany sporting director R\u00fcdi V\u00f6ller has commented on the early Liverpool career of Florian Wirtz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old joined Liverpool in the summer from Bayer Leverkusen for \u20ac125m, but, due to the high fee, he has been used as a scapegoat for Liverpool’s recent struggles, as he has yet to score or assist in the Premier League.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, V\u00f6ller, who knows Wirtz from his time at Leverkusen, has pointed out why the forward may be struggling in England:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“I deliberately watched a few Liverpool games with him: He does an incredible amount, runs a lot, sprints a lot, and also drops deep. But he doesn’t get passed to the way he was used to in Leverkusen or the national team. You have to work on that over the course of weeks and months,”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Later adding:<\/p>\n

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“I know he’s not one of those divas in his position who stand still and hang their heads after missing three passes. Florian isn’t like that. He’s not only an exceptional footballer, but he also has a superb character. He’ll always give it his all from the first to the last minute, always going for it. He also has incredible running stats. He’ll prevail.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wirtz’s early Liverpool form:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In the past week, the defending champions have lost three games in the Premier League and Champions League. However, despite failing to register a goal or an assist, Wirtz has managed 21 chances created in the English top flight. While in Liverpool’s 2-1 loss to Chelsea at the weekend, the 22-year-old came on at halftime and was one of the better Liverpool players.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite his slow start to the season, Wirtz himself is also not fazed and is aware<\/a> that there is an adaptation period when it comes to moving to the Bundesliga and Premier League.\u00a0<\/p>\n

GGFN | Jack Meenan\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking to\u00a0Sky90, Germany sporting director R\u00fcdi V\u00f6ller has commented on the early Liverpool career of Florian Wirtz.\u00a0 The 22-year-old joined Liverpool in the summer from Bayer Leverkusen for \u20ac125m, but,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312415,"featured_media":104115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,346,11,16,9,843,844],"tags":[449,570,200,1028],"class_list":["post-104111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-bayer-leverkusen","category-bundesliga","category-2-bundesliga-news","category-die-mannschaft","category-other-leagues","category-premier-league","tag-bundesliga","tag-germany","tag-liverpool","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104121,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104111\/revisions\/104121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}