Florian Wirtz has been pictured on holiday with Jeremie Frimpong as he prepares to seal a huge transfer to Liverpool.
German forward Wirtz is expected to fly in for a medical on Merseyside on Friday after a mammoth deal was finally struck with Bayer Leverkusen last week worth an initial guaranteed £100million up front plus a further potential £16m in add-ons, which if met would make it the most expensive signing in the history of British football, overtaking Chelsea’s £115m swoop for Ecuadorian midfielder Moises Caicedo from Brighton in the summer of 2023.
Wirtz has been on holiday since Germany’s Nations League finals campaign on home soil ended with a last-four defeat by eventual winners Portugal - in which he scored - and subsequent third-place play-off loss to France last weekend, having already agreed personal terms with Liverpool as he prepares to finalise the move after a break.
Frimpong has now posted a picture of the pair relaxing on holiday on a boat in a sunny location, with the Dutch international defender having already sealed his own £29.5m switch from Leverkusen to Anfield last month as Trent Alexander-Arnold’s long-term right-back replacement following the latter’s early £10m move to Real Madrid ahead of the Club World Cup.
Vacation mode with my bro 📵🏖️ pic.twitter.com/Z2wqOEBscU
— Jeremie Frimpong (@JeremieFrimpong) June 17, 2025
Alongside a snap of himself and Wirtz posing on the boat, Frimpong posted on social media: “Vacation mode with my bro.”
Wirtz and Frimpong played together for four seasons at Leverkusen after the latter joined from Celtic in 2021, each enjoying a key role in the Xabi Alonso team that won a memorable Bundesliga and German Cup double in 2023/24, narrowly missing out on a trophy treble after losing the Europa League final to Atalanta in Dublin.
Liverpool fans will hope that the pair are swiftly joined at Anfield by Milos Kerkez, who looks to be firmly on track to complete a £45m move from Bournemouth soon having spoken to Reds supporters on a recent live stream and held up a flag of a Liverpool supporters’ group in Serbia.
The father and agent of Kerkez - an international team-mate and close friend of Liverpool’s Dominik Szoboszlai with Hungary - also confirmed that his son joining Liverpool was now “basically a done deal” as he hailed the impact of Richard Hughes, Liverpool’s sporting director who signed Kerkez from Dutch side AZ Alkmaar during his time at Bournemouth.
“It's only Liverpool for us and we're not going anywhere else and we won't talk to other clubs,” Sebastijan Kerkez told the Super Indirektno podcast.
“Everything is done between us, we just need to sort out some details. But it's basically a done deal."
On Hughes, he said: “Richard Hughes brought us to Bournemouth, if he said we go to India, then we go to India. Everything is agreed, just some little things.”
Kerkez’s proposed transfer to Liverpool had already looked to be moving closer this week after Bournemouth signed French left-back Adrien Truffert from Rennes - his assumed replacement - in a £10.1m deal.
Alongside Frimpong, Wirtz and likely Kerkez, Liverpool are also welcoming Georgian goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili this summer after a £29m deal was agreed with Valencia last year.
Fellow goalkeeper Armin Pesci, 20, has also arrived from Hungarian side Puskas Akademia, with the Reds securing new competition and support for first-choice stopper Alisson Becker after long-time deputy Caoimhin Kelleher’s £18m switch to Brentford.
Left-back stalwart Andy Robertson could yet leave amid the pursuit of Kerkez, having now been linked with Atletico Madrid as he enters the final year of his Liverpool contract. If he stays, then understudy Kostas Tsimikas could depart instead, Sky Sports claim, with Wolves, Nottingham Forest and Leeds all linked with the Greek defender.
