Florian Wirtz - Welcome to LFC

[Cerbie]

Wirtz would have loved a player like Nunez, someone who is always willing to run in behind....ok, he may not put them all away, but he moves and doesn't stop moving. All our forwards at the moment just seem to stand still, waiting for the ball to feet, rather than making a dart forwards. Maybe Isak will do that more, as Ekitike did at the start of the year, before too many games caught him up.

Is there a chance we could get him back on loan for next season? And if we did, would be have to wait for the window to open given his circumstances in Saudi?

[Kenneth]

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[Exiled_red]

We’ve had so little consistency due to injury and lack of options. But mid season when Wirtz and Ekitike were in form you could see the potential.

Not unheard off for a player to take a season to bed in and Wirtz has been decent enough on a mis firing team. I’m looking forward to seeing what he can do next season with a more settled team (and new manager!).

I think that it's the lack of options more than anything that has been the problem, in terms of number of injuries I don't think we have been that unlucky, where we have been unlucky is 1) the number of long term injuries we have got and 2) having injuries to multiple players in the same position at the same time (e.g. losing 1st and 2nd choice GKs at the same time, and the constant RB issues)

We came into the season with about 18 senior outfield players (plus some kids), at least 2 of whom the manager didn't trust (Chiesa and Endo) and one who is quite injury prone (Gomez). We knew Salah was going to miss part of the season due to AFCON. You can probably expect to have about 4 players out at any time on average, but that squad just isn't big enough.

[frank the tank]

We’ve had so little consistency due to injury and lack of options. But mid season when Wirtz and Ekitike were in form you could see the potential.

Not unheard off for a player to take a season to bed in and Wirtz has been decent enough on a mis firing team. I’m looking forward to seeing what he can do next season with a more settled team (and new manager!).

Roy Keane compared the Wirtz situation to Modric last week which i thought (hope) was a good one.

I think that with a more settled team around him, then youd hope that he clicks.