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Sunday People
|June 15, 2025
As a kid, Liverpool record signing Wirtz snubbed Ronaldo and Messi shirts... he wanted a Marco Marin jersey
FLORIAN WIRTZ will be hoping to have a bigger impact on the Premier League in Liverpool red than his boyhood hero Marko Marin did in Chelsea blue.
The champions' British record signing grew up idolising Marin when he first started showing his potential playing alongside older boys at Grun-Weiss Brauweiler, the junior club on the outskirts of Cologne where his dad and agent Hans-Joachim is chairman.
When Germany international Marin (right) moved to Stamford Bridge from Werder Bremen in the summer of 2012 for £6.5million, big things were expected of him.
But he made just two Premier League starts for the Londoners and was loaned out to Sevilla, Fiorentina, Anderlecht and Trabzonspor before joining Olympiakos four years later.
This story is from the June 15, 2025 edition of Sunday People.
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