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What Florian Wirtz camp has now told Manchester City as they look to sign Bayer Leverkusen superstar

Giuseppe Labellarte

Fri 14 March 2025 17:15, UK Updated Fri 14 March 2025 20:39, UK

TBR Football can exclusively confirm that Manchester City have been handed a big boost in their pursuit of Florian Wirtz.

The Bayer Leverkusen star has long been on Manchester City’s radar💯 and this off-season looks set to present them with their best chance to land h⛎im.

City are ready to part company with soon-to-be free agent Kevin De Bruyne at the end of the 🌱season.

Bernardo Silva, Jack G✱realish and James McAtee could also follow De Bruyne out of the club.

With that in mind, Wirtz would be a much-needed🧔 acquisition for the Citizens as they continue🔥 on their squad rebuild.

Florian Wirtz representatives tell Manchester City a summer deal could be possible

TBR Football chief correspondent Graeme Bailey understands that City have received encourage🎐🥃ment from Wirtz’s representatives regarding a potential summer move.

Hugo Viana is due to become City’s new sporting director this summ♑er, but outgoing chief Txiki Begiristain ꧟is making sure he is not left with a complete rebuild with plans being in place.

As TBR Football previously revealed, City have done work on Belgian star Charles De Ketelaere wh🌳ilst they are also big admirers of Trincao – who Viana knows well from his former club Sporting.

However, their top two attacking midf﷽ieღld targets entering 2025 were always Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz.

Musiala is now off the market after committing to a new deal with Bayern, whilst it was believed Wirtz was ဣlooking likely to stay at Bayer Leverkusen for another season.

However, sources have told TBR Football that in recenꦚt weeks it has emerged that a move could very well be in 🍷the offing.

Bayer want to tie Wirtz 🌊down to a new deal and were close to agreeing terms at the turn of the year, but as yet an agreement has now been reached.

We are told that City and B♔ayern – who are also looking to landꩲ Wirtz – have been informed that a deal could now be possible.

Both clubs have maintained convers💯ations with Wirtz’s people and we can confirm those talks have stepped up in recent weeks.

To land Wirtz, City🎶 might have to get close to the £100million club-record fee thꦡey spent on Grealish several years ago.

Indeed, should Citไy push through a deal for Wirtz and also continue their pursuit of right-back Jeremie Frimpong – they could hand Leverkusen close to £1𓆉50million to land the pair.

What Florian Wirtz could bring to Manchester City

At just 21 years of age, Wirtz has made a name for hims꧙elf as one of the best midfielders in world footba♔ll.

He is closing in on🅠 200 competitive appearances for Leverkusen and has registered 56 goals🎉 and 63 assists for his club.

Wirtz has also won 29 caps for🐈 Germany, with 13 goal contributions to his name already.

Wirtz has been compared to Phil Foden by Premier League legend Mဣark Schwarzer due to being similarly “dynamic” and “elegant.”

Meanwhile, former Bayer Leverkusen and Germany striker Patrick Helmes has hailed Wirtz as “probably the best midfielder in the world”, a🐽s per .