Bayern Munich president sends Florian Wirtz sympathy amid 'disastrous' Liverpool season | OneFootball

Reds beat Bayern to attacking midfielder’s signing

Bayern Munich’s honorary president Uli Hoeness has said that Liverpool are having a “disastrous” season.

The Reds find themselves in ninth in the Premier League table after their 2-0 win at West Ham, but before that, they had suffered nine defeats in 12 games.

The pressure intensified on Arne Slot last week after their 4-1 Champions League home humbling by PSV Eindhoven.

The Merseyside outfit paid £116million - a British record - for attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz earlier in the summer, beating Bayern to the German’s signature from Bayer Leverkusen.

However, Wirtz hasn’t yet hit the heights expected from a record arrival, and neither has the man that smashed that record Alexander Isak, despite the Swede opening his league account for his new club at the London Stadium.

“They spent €500m and are having a disastrous season,” Hoeness said.

“In my opinion, that’s because they only have superstars. They only have chiefs and no workers. I always say: At Liverpool, they’ll soon have to play with five balls because the stars won’t give up any of them.

“Poor Wirtz, he doesn’t even get a ball there because [Mohamed] Salah and [Dominik] Szoboszlai and all the others want to play with their own.”

In his 17 games for Liverpool so far, Wirtz has not scored a single goal, and has laid on three assists.

He has found game time hard to come by in recent weeks with Slot looking to stop the rot by reverting back to his trusted midfield three of last year, Szoboszai, Ryan Gravenberch, and Alexis Mac Allister.