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Post by Football News on Jul 1, 2015 19:38:08 GMT
Stoke City agree £12m fee with Inter for Xherdan Shaqiri • The 23-year-old only joined the Serie A side in January • Stoke have yet to discuss personal terms with Swiss international Xherdan Shaqiri played 15 league games and scored once for Inter after joining from Bayern Munich in January. Stoke City have agreed a fee of £12m with Internazionale for Xherdan Shaqiri but have yet to discuss personal terms with the Swiss midfielder or establish if he would be interested in moving to the Britannia Stadium. The 23-year-old only joined the Serie A side in January, on a four-and-a-half-year contract, but could potentially be persuaded to swap Milan for Stoke, who showed an interest in him six months ago. The Swiss international joined Inter from Bayern Munich, having spent three years at the Bundesliga club, saying that he was looking forward to some regular playing time after struggling to get into the Bayern midfield with players such as Franck Ribéry, Arjen Robben and Mario Götze blocking his way. He added that two separate telephone conversations with the Inter manager, Roberto Mancini, had convinced him to join the Italian club instead of moving to the Premier League. “I immediately felt like I would be very important for him,” he said. “At my age, what interested me most was the chance to play regularly, which hadn’t happened a lot lately.” Shaqiri played 15 league games, scoring one goal, in the second half of the season after arriving in the January window but the club are now looking to overhaul their squad and have already signed Geoffrey Kondogbia from Monaco and Miranda from Atlético Madrid with more players expected to join. Stoke, who have turned down a bid of £7m for Steven Nzonzi, pulled off a shock move for Bojan Krkic last summer and the Spaniard settled well at the club, being one of their best players before suffering a season-ending injury in January. Guardian
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Post by halewoodblue on Jul 1, 2015 21:38:18 GMT
Shaqiri and Stoke City? Together in a sentence which is not a joke
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Post by dorf on Jul 1, 2015 22:18:52 GMT
If that goes through I'll be gutted as he's a quality player. Mind you, he'll only be there a year before Chelsea, Man City, Man United,etc come sniffing and then he'll be off.
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Post by Avinalaff on Jul 1, 2015 23:45:34 GMT
I'd never heard of him before the rumour so he can't be 'all that'.
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Post by halewoodblue on Jul 2, 2015 9:48:33 GMT
I'd never heard of him before the rumour so he can't be 'all that'. Very good, quick winger. Way too good for Stoke
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