In the past few years, Florian Wirtz has been catching the attention of top teams all over Europe.
Wirtz is a skilled attacking midfielder with a good eye for goal and great physical skills. He would be a great addition to any team looking for a long-term midfield prospect, and Barcelona has been interested in him for a while now.
As with most of their moving work, though, money problems make it hard to make big changes.
The Catalans are first looking into adding Martin Zubimendi because they need a center right away. They are also looking at another German player, Joshua Kimmich.
And they might get good news about Kimmich if the player decides not to sign with Bayern Munich again.
There is a small chance that Bayern Munich will let Kimmich go if they make a move for Wirtz, which Sky Sports Germany says they are thinking about.
The German news source also says that Bayer Leverkusen knows how much Wirtz is worth and has set a price of 120 million euros or more to make sure they get a fair deal for one of their best players, who they think will leave soon.
Bayern and United are both interested in the player.
Any young player in Germany who wants to move to a new team will look at Bayern Munich. Wirtz is no different.
Bayern are also very interested in getting him, but the high asking price makes it hard for them, and they don’t have enough room on their squad right now to add him.
It might rest on Jamal Musiala (who Real Madrid wants) and maybe Kimmich leaving. If they do, they will bring in a lot of money and free up some money on the wage bill.
Manchester United is also interested in Wirtz, and they are said to be getting in touch soon to ask about him.
Barcelona could just sit back and wait.
Since Leverkusen thinks Wirtz might stay with them until the end of the 24/25 season, they have time to make a lot of money and do amazing things to try to get him.
If not, they can take advantage of Bayern’s need to sell and get Kimmich, who has been a goal for a long time, to strengthen the midfield.
For a while, the Catalans will just watch this whole thing happen, but in sports, you never know what could happen.