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Florian Wirtz has signed a contract until 2030 at Liverpool. (Photo by Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via … More Getty Images) Liverpool FC via Getty Images The biggest deal in Bundesliga history is completed. On Friday, Liverpool announced that the club had signed German star Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen. Wirtz has signed a contract until 2030. “I feel very happy and very proud,” Wirtz said in a Liverpool club statement. “Finally it’s done and I was waiting for a long time – finally it’s done and I am really happy. I’m really excited to have a new adventure in front of me. This was also a big point of my thoughts: that I want to have something completely new, to go out of the Bundesliga and to join the Premier League.” It is a record deal for Leverkusen. According to the transfer experts at Transfermarkt, Leverkusen will receive an initial €125 million ($144 million), with a further €15 million ($17.3 million) in very achievable add-ons, plus another possible €10 million ($11.5 million) in more difficult-to-reach add-ons. Where does that deal rank among Premier League players? Wirtz has become the most expensive German player, the most expensive player in Premier League history, and the sixth most expensive player in the history of the game. If all add-ons are met, it could rise to the third most expensive transfer ever. “We are very proud of the path he has taken at Bayer 04,” said Leverkusen CEO Fernando Carro in a club statement. “Now we have to let him go. We will miss Florian, but part of him will always be connected to Bayer 04. His sporting ability and his irrepressible commitment are an example and inspiration to us to show our full ambition to establish Bayer 04 at the top of German…

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