Where will Wirtz rank in list of most expensive gs?

Florian Wirtz is set to become the 10th footballer to move for a nine-figure fee after Liverpool agreed to pay Bayer Leverkusen an initial £100m for the attacking midfielder.

Including add-ons, the Reds could end up paying Leverkusen £116m.

The move will make Wirtz, 22, Liverpool's club record g, the most expensive German football ever - and the biggest sale by a Bundesliga club.

Liverpool already have the world's second most expensive goalkeeper - Alisson - and centre-back - Virgil van Dijk.

The British record for an initial fee remains the £107m Chelsea paid for Benfica midfielder Enzo Fernandez in 2023.

Six months later they signed Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo for an initial £100m, which could rise to £115m.

Wirtz's initial fee means he moves for exactly half the world record, which remains the £200m PSG paid Barcelona for Neymar in 2017.

Here BBC Sport looks at some of the most expensive players ever.

We are using initial fees, excluding add-ons, where possible - including reported figures where they were officially undisclosed.

Chelsea's £107m addition of Argentine Fernandez remains the British transfer record.

There is then a four-way tie on £100m - with three having potential add-ons.

Wirtz's could end up being the biggest of those with £16m in add-ons, while Caicedo's could reach £115m.

Declan Rice moved from West Ham to Arsenal for a fee which could reach £105m, while Jack Grealish's move from Aston Villa to Manchester City in 2021 was for a flat £100m.

Chelsea also rank high up with their £97.5m g of Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku, while Manchester United's acquisitions of Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba (£89m), Ajax winger Antony (£82m) and Leicester defender Harry Maguire (£80m) are next on the list.

Manchester City defender Josko Gvardiol (£77m) is next, with Lukaku appearing for the second time courtesy of his £75m move from Everton to Manchester United in 2017.

Rice and Grealish tly hold the title of being the most expensive British footballer.

Jude Bellingham's 2023 move from Borussia Dortmund to Real Madrid for a initial £88.5m puts him third.

Then comes England captain Harry Kane's £86.4m switch from Tottenham to Bayern, and Wales winger Gareth Bale, who made an £85m move from Spurs to Real Madrid in 2013.

Maguire, the £80m man, is followed by Jadon Sancho, who moved in 2021 from Borussia Dortmund to Manchester United for £73m. Mason Mount is next following his £55m move from Chelsea to United.

Scott McTominay is the most expensive Scot, costing Napoli £25.7m last summer from Manchester United - narrowly beating the £25m Arsenal paid Celtic for left-back Kieran Tierney in 2019.

Northern Ireland's priciest player remains Jamal Lewis, who made a £15m switch from Norwich to Newcastle in 2020.

The two most expensive gs of all time were made by Paris St-German in the same summer.

PSG first spent £200m on Barcelona's Neymar in 2017, before adding Monaco's Kylian Mbappe, initially on loan, in what became a £165.7m deal.

Argentina's most expensive player is Fernandez and Spain's is £71m Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga, who was signed from Athletic Bilbao.

Cristiano Ronaldo is top for Portugal, Belgium's record is Lukaku and 's will be Wirtz.

Sandro Tonali is the most expensive Italian after his £55m move from AC Milan to Newcastle.

Most of the priciest goalkeepers have gone to Premier League teams, led by Chelsea's £71m outlay on Kepa.

Alisson's move to Liverpool the same summer ranks second, followed by Manchester United's g of Inter Milan's Andre Onana in 2023 for £43.8m.

Next is Manchester City's 2017 g of Benfica's Ederson for £35m.

The Ederson move ended Gianluigi Buffon's 16-year reign as the world's most expensive keeper - following his £32.6m move from Parma to Juventus.

Thibaut Courtois' switch from Chelsea to Real Madrid was reportedly worth about £35m - but some of that may have been add-ons.

Manchester United's £80m g of Maguire in 2019 remains the world record fee for a defender.

Second on the list is the £77m Manchester City paid for Croatia full-back Gvardiol in 2023.

Van Dijk's £75m move from Southampton to Liverpool sits third, with Wesley Fofana's £70m switch from Leicester to Chelsea not far behind.

Bayern Munich's gs of Lucas Hernandez from Atletico Madrid (£68m in 2019) and Matthijs de Ligt from Juventus (£65.6m in 2022) are next.

The most expensive midfielder is Argentine Fernandez after his £107m move to Chelsea on 1 February 2023.

In second place is Philippe Coutinho, who cost Barcelona £105m when they signed him from Liverpool in 2018.

And then there's the four-way £100m Premier League tie - with Caicedo, Wirtz, Rice and Grealish.

Next is Pogba's move from Juventus to Manchester United (£89m) in 2016 and Bellingham's move to Real Madrid for an initial £88.5m.

Neymar and Mbappe's moves to PSG in 2017 make them the two most expensive players, let alone forwards, ever for a combined £365.7m.

Atletico Madrid's £113m move for Benfica forward Joao Felix in 2019 is third in all positions.

Next among forwards is the £107m Barcelona paid Atletico for Antoine Griezmann, also in 2019, then Lukaku's £97.5m move from Inter Milan to Chelsea in 2021.

The record for total career transfer fees is Santos forward Neymar's £326.2m, with Napoli's Lukaku close behind on £324.5m.