Florian Wirtz has just carved his name into modern Premier League history with one of, if not the most beautiful assists witnessed in recent years, receiving the ball from an angle where creation itself appeared impossible, gliding away from his opponent at devastating speed before, from an almost absurd distance, seeing a passage invisible to everybody else and placing the ball perfectly onto Víctor Muñoz’s path for the equalizer, a few seconds of football where geometry surrendered to imagination and vision became art, an assist of such outrageous difficulty, elegance and precision that it deserves to live among the defining pieces of creation of the modern Premier League era.
This is precisely why the criticism surrounding Florian has always felt almost absurd to those who watch him closely and understand the magnitude of the footballer standing before them, because beneath the elegance lives an extraordinary fire, an obsession with deciding matches and a determination bordering on destiny, he promised his father and agent Hans-Joachim Wirtz that he would silence every voice, answer every doubt and emerge above the noise, and perhaps we are only witnessing the opening pages now, because when the final chapter of this season is written, the greatest trophies in football and the individual crowns reserved for the truly exceptional may have no choice but to carry the name Florian Wirtz.
@rickygervais It's not really about cats though, Ricky, eh? It's about this lovely world the humans who are fucking destroying it. I love every second of it. You are a genius. The world needs more humans like yourself!
@HendrickD82 With the links to Mbaye and Rayan it seems Iraola will not use Dom as a RW. That begs the question where does our new vice captain fit in? It looks like Iraola will try develop him for the double pivot role. And then it would take a Tchou/Caicedo type of signing to be good to go.