Wirtz becomes latest footballer battling to best their objectively weird price tag | Barney Ronay

<p>High-technique midfielder is talented enough for his Liverpool move to work out but most transfers over £80m don’t</p><p>The verdict is in on the new Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson movie, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/01/the-smashing-machine-review-dwayne-johnson-mark-kerr">The Smashing Machine</a>, which does look pretty good to be fair. The key takeaway is this. Anyone who might have dismissed The Rock as simply a bald, grizzled, muscled-up fight sport veteran is going to have to eat their words.</p><p>It turns out The Rock is actually a really good actor. There is talk of a previously unseen ability to inhabit a character, to subsume his entire identity within a role. The role, in this case, of a bald, grizzled, muscled-up fight sport veteran.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/04/florian-wirtz-latest-footballer-battling-objectively-weird-price-tag-liverpool">Continue reading...</a>