Kirkby visit and resilient Richard Hughes: The timeline of Florian Wirtz’s transfer to Liverpool

It was at 7pm on Friday evening that Liverpool officially confirmed the signing of Florian Wirtz in a club-record £116m deal (The Athletic).

The transfer had seemed to be on the verge of completion throughout June, with the player’s involvement for Germany at the UEFA Nations League finals and his subsequent holiday contributing to the wait for it to be announced by the Reds until yesterday.

As you can imagine with a transaction of such magnitude and expense, it’s one which had been...