Sky Sports' resident renowned Italian transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano, slammed his English colleague Kaveh Solhekol, who kept insisted on denying that Liverpool had approached Bayer Leverkusen wonderkid Florian Wirtz, through his personal paid column on Sunday.

Romano angrily hit out in his column that: "Kaveh, my friend, you and I are reporters and colleagues of the same organization. News reports should not be done in this way. Why do you keep insisting that something that really happened did not happen?!"

"I don't know what his mentality is, whether he wants to stand out from others or has his own agenda, but in short, it is an absolute fact that Liverpool had approched Florian Wirtz a few days ago."

"I can prove that what David Ornstein said is true. Liverpool did approached Wirtz suddenly a few days ago. The player had been meeting with the Reds' Sporting Director Richard Hughes in England with his family under the Reds' arrangement.”

“Although Wirtz did not reach any agreement with the club at the time, Hughes did tell the German wonderkid that Liverpool would definitely make an offer at the first opportunity if he was interested in trying to play in the Premier League.”

“This is absolutely true, so I don’t understand why Kaveh denied it, and this is not the first time he has done something like this.”

In fact, although Kaveh Solhekol is the chief news correspondent at Sky Sports, he has indeed been criticized for spreading fake transfer rumours or denying real news reports several times. This is also why before this he has already been criticized by Romano, who has always been very outspoken, in recent years!

The incident originated from Ornstein’s exclusive revelation on May 14 that Liverpool had suddenly approached Wirtz without warning.

At that time, in addition to confirming that the Leverkusen wonderkid had indeed received appoaches from Manchester City and Bayern Munich, he also confirmed that Hughes had arranged for Wirtz and his family to come to Blackpool for a secret meeting for talks.

Subsquently, the same news was quickly confirmed by various resident renowned Liverpool team correspondents, but Solhekol insist on deliberately denying it the next day through Sky Sports' official YouTube channel.

In the 3-minute video, Solhekol insisted on refuting other people's reports at length, but at that time, many fans had already criticized him in the video's comment area.

About Florian Wirtz

Wirtz, who is only 22 years old, was born on May 3, 2003 in Pulheim, Germany. He is 1.77 meters tall and primarily plays as an attacking midfielder. He can also play as a left winger or right winger.

Wirtz played for the Köln youth academy when he was young. In 2019, he moved to the Bayer Leverkusen youth academy and completed his Bayer Leverkusen first-team debut in the Bundesliga match against Werder Bremen in May 2020.

Because of his outstanding performances, Wirtz and Bayern Munich's Jamal Musiala are both hailed as one of the most anticipating midfield wonderkids in German and even European football and have since attracted much attention from the footballing world.

Since his debut, Wirtz has played 197 times for Leverkusen in all competitions so far, scoring 57 goals, assisting 65 times, and has won the Bundesliga once, the DFB-Pokal once and the DFL-Super Cup once with the club, as well as reaching UEFA the Europa League final once.