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Bayern Munich star Xherdan Shaqiri: I wanted to join Liverpool

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Bayern Munich star Xherdan Shaqiri: I wanted to join Liverpool

XHERDAN SHAQIRI has admitted he wanted to join Liverpool in the summer.

Reds boss Brendan Rodgers was eager to sign the Bayern Munich winger during the close season after watching him perform outstanding well for Switzerland at the World Cup in Brazil.

Starsport revealed in June that Liverpool officials had held talks with Shaqiri's representative over a potential £15m move to Anfield.

The 23-year-old was close to agreeing a long-term deal with Liverpool, but a change of heart from German champions Bayern saw them put the blockers on the switch.

And Shaqiri has conceded that he had hoped to start a new chapter of his career on Merseyside

"It was known that I wanted to do something in the summer. After the World Cup I felt that it would be better for me to try something new," he told German newspaper Blick when asked about Liverpool.

"I thought of a change and had a lot of requests.

"Then FC Bayern decided that I should stay. In that case, you cannot do much as a player. But I feel very good at Munich, too."

Shaqiri is contracted at Bayern until the end of next season and previously hinted that he would hold discussions about his future with club bosses in the new year.

He has spoken out over his unhappiness at the lack of first-team football he has received under Bayern boss Pep Guardiola.

Shaqiri has made eight Bundesliga appearances for Bayern this season, starting only once.
 
I wonder if they were after Reus to replace him, and put the mockers on this deal when that one ground to a halt....
 
So we get Markovic instead :(


No we didn't. Same as we didn't get Lallana instead of Sanchez. We wanted Shaqiri but Bayern Munich wouldn't sell. It's not a stick to beat us with, there are plenty of those without needing to invent some.

I wouldn't be surprised if we go for Xherdan in the Jan window.
 
No we didn't. Same as we didn't get Lallana instead of Sanchez. We wanted Shaqiri but Bayern Munich wouldn't sell. It's not a stick to beat us with, there are plenty of those without needing to invent some.

I wouldn't be surprised if we go for Xherdan in the Jan window.

I don't understand why people do this. Like Modo the other day, someone mentioned about how well Sanchez was doing and he responds with, "it's ok, we got Lallana". Are the two points even relevant to eachother? We were linked heavily with Lallana anyway and it's well documented why we didn't get Sanchez.
 
We haven't missed having Shaqiri. I rate him highly but we also have Coutinho, Lallana, Sterling and Markovic who are also very good (in Markovic's case it's unproven as yet) and play in a similar role to Shaq.

Our main problem is a complete lack of a goalscorer; Balotelli is poor, Lambert isn't up to the job as a 90 minute target man and Borini, for all his effort, is not good enough. Our midfield is excellent but there's no point having all the ammunition if you don't have a gun.

Shaqiri would have given us even more ammunition but what we need more than anything is Sturridge to get fit and stay fit until we can bring in another striker.

Teams who play us don't feel threatened by Balotelli e.g. like the Chavs at the weekend and therefore feel at liberty to push "everyone" forward against us. If we had had Sturridge and (hypothetically) Origi up front against the Chavs, Ramires, Azpilecueta, Ivanovic, Fabregas etc would have had far more defensive duties and we would not have been so easily beaten.

We don't need Shaq and we can't afford to spunk away another £20m for a position that we are ok for, we need a goalie and a centre forward and never to play SG as a deep-lying CM'er.
 
We haven't missed having Shaqiri. I rate him highly but we also have Coutinho, Lallana, Sterling and Markovic who are also very good (in Markovic's case it's unproven as yet) and play in a similar role to Shaq.

Our main problem is a complete lack of a goalscorer; Balotelli is poor, Lambert isn't up to the job as a 90 minute target man and Borini, for all his effort, is not good enough. Our midfield is excellent but there's no point having all the ammunition if you don't have a gun.

Shaqiri would have given us even more ammunition but what we need more than anything is Sturridge to get fit and stay fit until we can bring in another striker.

Teams who play us don't feel threatened by Balotelli e.g. like the Chavs at the weekend and therefore feel at liberty to push "everyone" forward against us. If we had had Sturridge and (hypothetically) Origi up front against the Chavs, Ramires, Azpilecueta, Ivanovic, Fabregas etc would have had far more defensive duties and we would not have been so easily beaten.

We don't need Shaq and we can't afford to spunk away another £20m for a position that we are ok for, we need a goalie and a centre forward and never to play SG as a deep-lying CM'er.
This post just saved me a lot of typing. Agree with everything you said.
 
What ammunition? We don't create anything worthy of note game in game out.
That's because Balotelli/Lambert/Borini are either marked or making the wrong runs. When Sturridge comes back you'll see that suddenly we'll be making chances for him which will hopefully show you that the problem is not a lack of ammunition but the lack (at present) of any firepower.
 
That's because Balotelli/Lambert/Borini are either marked or making the wrong runs. When Sturridge comes back you'll see that suddenly we'll be making chances for him which will hopefully show you that the problem is not a lack of ammunition but the lack (at present) of any firepower.


This is true but there's a lack of goals from other areas of the pitch. Sterling scored more frequently last season, but none of Henderson, Allen or Coutinho have looked like they are going to be regularly chipping in with goals. I agree that Sturridge upfront should make a big difference but bar him, there is pretty much no-one else in the side who look like they have goals in them. That needs to be addressed as well.
 
Sterling scored more goals last season because he had more space because Suarez and Sturridge caused mayhem amongst defences. If we get Sturridge fit and buy a good partner for him Sterling will start scoring again. The first part is to get Sturridge fit, that will help a lot but then we need to offload Balotelli and Borini in January and bring in a really decent partner for him.
 
The same goes for the rest of our midfield, none of them look as good as last season because our forwards are shit.
 
This is true but there's a lack of goals from other areas of the pitch. Sterling scored more frequently last season, but none of Henderson, Allen or Coutinho have looked like they are going to be regularly chipping in with goals. I agree that Sturridge upfront should make a big difference but bar him, there is pretty much no-one else in the side who look like they have goals in them. That needs to be addressed as well.

Sturridge is brilliant at "luring" defenders. He did this quite a lot last season, leaving gaps for Sterling and Co. to run through. Again, I'm talking about "off-the-ball" work. Something which Balotelli fails miserably at.
 
We haven't missed having Shaqiri. I rate him highly but we also have Coutinho, Lallana, Sterling and Markovic who are also very good (in Markovic's case it's unproven as yet) and play in a similar role to Shaq.

Our main problem is a complete lack of a goalscorer; Balotelli is poor, Lambert isn't up to the job as a 90 minute target man and Borini, for all his effort, is not good enough. Our midfield is excellent but there's no point having all the ammunition if you don't have a gun.

Shaqiri would have given us even more ammunition but what we need more than anything is Sturridge to get fit and stay fit until we can bring in another striker.

Teams who play us don't feel threatened by Balotelli e.g. like the Chavs at the weekend and therefore feel at liberty to push "everyone" forward against us. If we had had Sturridge and (hypothetically) Origi up front against the Chavs, Ramires, Azpilecueta, Ivanovic, Fabregas etc would have had far more defensive duties and we would not have been so easily beaten.

We don't need Shaq and we can't afford to spunk away another £20m for a position that we are ok for, we need a goalie and a centre forward and never to play SG as a deep-lying CM'er.

Largely agree with this and have said similar in other threads.


One point of disagreement - as Onions says, Shaq scores goals. He's more than a Coutinho or Lallana - he's more like Sterling IMO. Actually, he looks a bigger goal threat than Sterling in all honestly. Maybe that's because of who he's been playing with but I think there's goals in him - a lot more than Coutinho and Lallana will offer.
 
Sterling scored more goals last season because he had more space because Suarez and Sturridge caused mayhem amongst defences. If we get Sturridge fit and buy a good partner for him Sterling will start scoring again. The first part is to get Sturridge fit, that will help a lot but then we need to offload Balotelli and Borini in January and bring in a really decent partner for him.

This.

Bloody hell, where've you been?

Still, I reiterate the point in my earlier post: Shaq will score goals. He's almost hyper active in his movement - probably not as intelligent a runner as Suarez but I don't really see why he, Sturridge and Sterling couldn't prove a nightmare for opposition teams to face. Shaq is certainly not going to get as many goals as Suarez but his movement will open up opportunities for everyone. Sturridge may even prove to be the 30 goal striker we need if he gets the space. There were stretches of games last season where he was outscoring Suarez - and not just when the Uruguayan was suspended.
 
Largely agree with this and have said similar in other threads.


One point of disagreement - as Onions says, Shaq scores goals. He's more than a Coutinho or Lallana - he's more like Sterling IMO. Actually, he looks a bigger goal threat than Sterling in all honestly. Maybe that's because of who he's been playing with but I think there's goals in him - a lot more than Coutinho and Lallana will offer.
As I mentioned I do like Shaq and would rather have him than Markovic but seeing as how we've spent £20m on Markovic and we've got options behind the strikers I'd rather not buy another attacking midfielder. IMO we need an out-and-out forward.

If we, as we suspect, have a limited budget this January the priorities have to be a Goalie and a CF. We can hopefully solve the CM problem by playing any 2 from 3 Can/Henderson/Allen and play Gerrard further forward where he will have to compete for playing time with Coutinho, Sterling, Markovic and Lallana.
 
Sterling scored more goals last season because he had more space because Suarez and Sturridge caused mayhem amongst defences. If we get Sturridge fit and buy a good partner for him Sterling will start scoring again. The first part is to get Sturridge fit, that will help a lot but then we need to offload Balotelli and Borini in January and bring in a really decent partner for him.

Sterling scored 10 goals last season at 1:4. So far this he's scored 3 goals at 1:4. So he's certainly not on course to score less than last season, almost certainly he'll score more than 10 and once we pick up I'd be very surprised if he was not well ahead of 1:4. Somewhere around 14/15 for the season is my personal guess.
 
He'll leave in January for around € 20 million.

I think he'll go to United or to Dortmund as part of a deal for Reus.
 
I think Reus is Chelsea bound with Schurrle going the other way.

That scenario wouldn't help Bayern sell Shaq to anyone.

I personally don't think any other big club in world football really has a need for Shaq at the moment. We're the standout club in need of what he provides.

I agree with what Pesam said but I think Shaq has more goals in him than he's been given credit for. Reus, would of course, be ideal but, in all honesty, such a signing would be as unexpected as the day we all heard that Mascher had signed for West Ham.
 
...and look what happened then. ;) Joking aside, I agree Reus won't come here, but another contact of mine in Germany has echoed part of what Holle's saying from Austria about him, specifically the bit about him ending up at Bayern.

The imponderable in Shaqiri's case is what he himself wants. If it's us he wants to play for and he wants that badly enough, he'll make it happen.
 
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