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LUCAS BELIEVES WIRTZ WILL THRIVE IN LIVERPOOL ENVIRONMENT

- By PAUL GORST

LUCAS Leiva believes the settled nature of Liverpool's squad will allow Florian Wirtz the freedom to justify his £116m price tag.

And the former midfielder says no-one at Anfield will be uneasy about the raft of new arrivals this summer.

Wirtz became the most expensive Liverpool signing of all time when the Premier League champions agreed to pay Bayer Leverkusen an initial £100m with a further £16m in success-based add-ons last month and the Bundesliga player of the season arrives amid huge excitement among the Reds' fanbase.

The 22-year-old followed on from the £29m addition of his Leverkusen teammate Jeremie Frimpong before a £40m capture of Milos Kerkez was confirmed from Bournemouth later that month.

Liverpool are now on the cusp of committing a further £79m for Eintracht Frankfurt's Hugo Ekitike and inclusive of the £29m deal for Giorgi Mamardashvili last summer from Valencia, Liverpool have now spent close to £300m in what has been a history-making summer transfer window already, with over a month still to go.