Roberto Firmino will leave Liverpool on a free transfer after his contract expires at the end of the season having had a change of plans..

2023-03-04 17:53

Roberto Firmino will leave Liverpool on a free transfer after his contract expires at the end of the season having had a change of plans..




Sky Sports Germany's renowned Bayern Munich team correspondent Florian Plattenberg reported on Friday that Brazil international center forward Roberto Firmino has suddenly changed his original plans and has decided to leave Liverpool on a free transfer at the end of the season after his contract expires.


According to Plattenberg, Firmino has informed Liverpool head coach Jürgen Klopp and his colleagues through his agent, and Klopp is also said to have accepted the news seriously.


Subsequently, Plattenberg's colleague, renowned Italian transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano, as well as online media The Athletic's renowned English transfer journalist David Ornstein also confirmed the news.


Although the Reds legend is about to leave the club, both Romano and Ornstein said in unison that this decision has nothing to do with the recent rumours which linked him to a transfer to Beşiktaş, and based on current indications, nor does it seems like that Firmino will join Bayern Munich.


After the release of this shocking news, speculations about which club Firmino is about to move to has been spread around like a wildfire unsurprisingly. Among them, AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Olympique Lyonnais and Barcelona were among those clubs which were heavily rumoured.


The 31-year-old Firmino, nicknamed Bobby, was born on October 2, 1991 in Maceio, Brazil. He is 1.81 meters tall. He was originally an attacking midfielder but was retrained into a world-class forward under the guidance of Klopp.


Firmino played for the youth academy of his hometown club Regatas when he was a child, and later moved to the Figueirense youth academy in 2008, and completed his Figueirense first-team debut in September 2009.


From November 2011 to the first half of 2015, Firmino moved to and played for Hoffenheim. It was not until 2013 that he really began to become the key player of the first-team.


In July 2015, Firmino joined Liverpool from Hoffenheim for £45 million. His never complaining, never say die, willing to give himself up to support his teammates attitude, as well as his excellent goalscoring and passing abilities were all his world-class advantages. Over the 8 years which he plays for the Reds, he has formed a devastating front-three with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané, which is one of the most efficient goalscoring combinations in the world.


Since joining, Firmino has played 353 times for the Reds across all competitions, scoring 107 goals and assisting 78 times, helping the club win the Carabao Cup, FA Cup, English Community Shield, Premier League, Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup once each, which made him an out-and-out legend at Liverpool.


With Firmino gone, this also means that only Salah is left among the three in the team and the Premier League giants will bid farewell to Klopp's early glory days and enter a new era with which the frontline will be spearheaded by Luis Díaz, Darwin Núñez and Cody Gakpo.