Former Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney spoke about why Liverpool’s record signing Florian Wirtz has failed to ignite the Premier League since moving from Bayer Leverkusen. Wirtz has struggled to run into space and hasn’t been able to counter the intensive pressure that he is put under when with the ball.

Rooney felt that the competition for attacking positions at Liverpool was affecting Wirtz and that all of the new signings combined mean that the club’s forward line isn’t cohesive at the moment. “I think he’s played okay, but when you sign so many players like Liverpool have, and they’ve signed basically a whole new front line while also having Mo Salah there as well, then they’re all competing,” Rooney said on the Wayne Rooney show.

Rooney agreed that the German, one of the most

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