Bayern Munich are not coming back for Florian Wirtz, however loudly they think Liverpool are wasting him.

That contradiction is what Uli Hoeness delivered to Welt am Sonntag over the weekend, published on Sunday, 25 October 2026. The Bayern honorary president said Wirtz would be better off in Bavaria, criticised the way Liverpool are using him, and in the same breath ruled his own club out of a transfer because the German’s contract runs through 2030.

“Florian would play much better for us than he is currently doing at Liverpool,” Hoeness told the newspaper. He said he watches many of Liverpool’s matches and feels the club have simply failed to integrate the German properly.

“At Leverkusen, he received every ball; at Liverpool, he’s just one of many,” he said in the same interview.

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Wirtz’s first Liverpool goal came five days earlier

Wirtz scored his first Liverpool goal in the 4-3 Champions League win over Villarreal on 20 October 2026, and by Liverpool.com’s reckoning it was the first time in his Anfield career that he had scored or assisted in three consecutive games.

£116m from Leverkusen in 2025

Wirtz joined Liverpool in the summer of 2025, in a deal reported at up to £116m from Bayer Leverkusen, where he had been the standout creator in the Bundesliga for several seasons. Yahoo Sports summarised that the 23-year-old “has yet to reproduce his outstanding Leverkusen form at Liverpool and has repeatedly faced criticism” since the switch.

Hoeness confirmed to the newspaper that his club would not revisit the chase. Wirtz’s deal at Anfield runs through 2030.

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