Florian Wirtz is the absolute trendsetter at champion Bayer Leverkusen this season. The still only twenty-year-old growth brilliant can count on interest from the entire European top, but it seems… that Workself to remain faithful for at least another year. In the long term, Bayern Munich hopes to realize his arrival, it writes Sky Sportsjournalist Florian Plettenberg.

Leverkusen chairman Fernando Carro confirmed to the Spanish sports newspaper in mid-April ASH that there is a clear plan with Wirtz and his father Hans Wirtz, who is also his agent. “There is interest from many clubs. In football you can never look too far ahead, but it is certain that he will remain a Leverkusen player for another season.”

According to Plettenberg, Bayern Munich wants to work on a transfer for Wirtz in the summer of 2025. The creative is labeled as a 'top target' for der Rekordmeister.

The entire Bayern club management is said to support Wirtz's arrival. The German journalist writes that the attacking midfielder can count on interest from many European powers, including Real Madrid, Manchester City and Liverpool.

Uli Hoeness, Bayern's honorary chairman, recently spoke in the Frankfurter Allgemeine still out about Wirtz. “We can spend €100 million once for Harry Kane, maybe again for a German player, but not four or five times.”

If Bayern can come up with the transfer fee required by Leverkusen, then it has a good chance of signing Wirtz in the summer of 2025, according to Plettenberg. Both the player himself and his family would see Bayern as an intermediate step before making a transfer abroad, which he aspires to do in the future.

Wirtz still has a contract with the newly crowned German champions until mid-2027. In the successful formation of coach Xavi Alonso, he has already scored 17 goals and 19 assists in 43 official matches this season.

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