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FLORIAN WIRTZ will reportedly pocket a mammoth salary at Liverpool.
The Reds agreed a record Premier League fee for the Bayer Leverkusen and Germany midfielder earlier this week.
The Merseysiders will pay the 2023/24 Bundesliga champions a whopping £116.MILLION for the 22-year-old.
Liverpool have fended off the likes of Bayern Munich, Manchester City and Real Madrid to land Wirtz, who has reportedly been handed a mammoth five-year contract.
And according to Sky Sports, the German will pocket a whopping £245,000 a week during his Anfield stay.
That works out to a £12.7m a year, a fee which is nearly TWELVE TIMES what he earns at the BayArena.
A massive £10.2m of that figure is guaranteed for the attacking midfielder, who will pocket the remaining £2.5m if individual and team performance targets are met.
Wirtz’s salary will make him the THIRD HIGHEST-PAID player at Anfield ahead of Andy Robertson, Alexis Mac-Allister, Alisson, Ryan Gravenberch, Federico Chiesa, Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez.
Only Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk, who both inked new deals with the Prem champions last season, will earn more than him.
Egyptian Wizard Salah currently takes home a staggering £400k a week, which works out to be a jaw-dropping £20.8m.
Dutch defender Van Dijk, meanwhile, earns the same annual salary thanks to the bumper new two-year deal he inked in April.
Wirtz will be joined at Anfield by his former Leverkusen team-mate Jeremie Frimpong.
The Dutch defender became the Reds’ first signing of the summer late last month.
After the completion of his £29.5m move, the 24-year-old said: “Liverpool fans, I’m going to give my all.
“My energy, my work-rate. And hopefully, we can win together, we celebrate together, get everything together.
“I’m just excited to be here. Thank you guys for accepting me.
“And I won’t let you guys down and I’ll give you the energy that you guys want.” — Sun
