1 Liverpool have agreed a deal for Emre Can (left)

Liverpool have signed Bayer Leverkusen’s 20-year-old Emre Can, a player rated very highly among football’s biggest names…

“Emre Can is one of the biggest talents in German football”

Those are the words of Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the former Germany international and current Bayern Munich chairman. Rummenigge was full of praise when Can left Bayern for Bayer Leverkusen in 2013, insisting he did not want to stand in the way of the player’s progress.

“Emre Can is a very versatile player with great potential which he is certainly going to deliver more on with us”

Bayer sporting director and 1990 World Cup winner Rudi Voller was also fulsome with his praise (above) when the club signed Can.

Sami Hyypia, who won the 2005 Champions League with Liverpool and then managed Bayer Leverkusen, said Can has shown the technique to play in a number of positions, calling him incredible, as well as saying…

“He is strong in one-on-one situations, he is still young. He still needs some patience to always make the right decision. He has yet to learn. And he’s smart enough to learn that. He is well on its way to becoming a very good player”

Tottenham coach Steffen Freund was in charge of Germany’s U17 World Cup side in 2011 and could not speak highly enough of his captain, who guided the team to third place.