Uli Hoeneß rips into Liverpool FC’s disastrous season to date, expresses sympathy for ‘poor Florian Wirtz’

It is funny how things work out sometimes. In the summer, the narrative was that Liverpool FC had snatched away Bayern Munich’s most desired transfer target for many years in Florian Wirtz (which remains true), destroyed their dominance over hoarding all the German talent and gave them their leftovers in Luis Díaz for an inflated price. Now the narrative has changed, with Liverpool deeply regretting the sale of the hard working, irrepressible Díaz, who has proven impossible to replace, while Bayern have managed to secure a superstar that fits the system far better than Wirtz ever would have.

Narratives always carry a certain amount of truth and lies and the same goes for the narratives above. But there is a certain irony in the fact that Bayern’s honorary president Ulrich Hoeneß, looking at the first half of Liverpool’s season, is able to not only heavily criticize it but express sympathy for Wirtz, as well.

“They spent €500 million and are having a disastrous season. In my opinion, that’s because they only have superstars. They only have ‘chiefs’ and no ‘workers’,” Hoeneß opined to German news site Bild, as captured by @iMiaSanMia. “I always say that Liverpool will soon have to play with five balls because the stars won’t let go of the ball. Poor Florian Wirtz, he doesn’t even get a ball because [Mohamed] Salah and [Dominik] Szoboszlai and all the others want to play with their own.”

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