Roberto Firmino: Agent explains Liverpool star's new transfer decision

The Brazilian star will leave Anfield as a free agent next summer.

Roberto Firmino’s agent has insisted “financial terms” have played no role in his client’s decision to leave Liverpool.

The Brazilian forward’s brilliant performances this season intensified speculations about his potential stay at Anfield. Liverpool entered negotiations with Firmino last month to extend his current deal, that will expire in June.

However, the experienced star has informed the club that he will take on a new challenge next summer.

Firmino’s agent Roger Wittman has insisted that interest from other clubs wasn’t the reason behind his client’s decision.

“He has no clue what that means for him in the near future,” the agent told Football Insider. “He told us during the whole phase when we negotiated, ‘I don’t want to talk to anybody else, there’s no need to do that’. He said it was a decision with the club.

“This was the first time in my life he’s a free agent player and he said there was no need to talk to others! So he’s not motivated by other clubs or by financial terms – far away from that.

“The club gave him the time as well, no pressure. And he never started to compare asking us to talk to different clubs. For us [it would be] easy but this was not his intention, it was just to find his own way. This is so far away from this normal business, believe me!”