Jurgen Klopp revealed that Xherdan Shaqiri wanted to cancel his holiday as soon as the
World Cup began training in pre-season with Liverpool.
Liverpool completed the contract for 13 million pounds to sign a contract with Shaqiri from
Stoke City this month and the midfielder interrupted his holiday to complete the move to Anfield.
But instead of returning to rest after the Swiss World Cup campaign, the 26-year-old
player asked Klopp whether he could begin preparing the season with Liverpool's new
teammates.
"For Shaq, in the time he signed, he wanted to stay immediately with Liverpool and rehearse
us, a week after he finished the World Cup," Klopp said.
"We must tell him no, go on vacation.
"When he comes back this week, he's really excited and with him it's a very good time
in his career.
"He's in Bayern, in Stoke, in Inter, the important moments of his career.
Now we have him and he can play with a couple of really nice soccer players.
'
Shaqiri scored an impressive goal and also assisted the goal of Daniel Sturridge in Liverpool's
4-1 victory over Manchester United on Saturday.
"That's unusual after four days in the club, adapted well with style of play, " Klopp talking
about the performances of Shaqiri.
' We wanted to help him a little bit with the position so that's not too complicated.
"We gave him a lot of freedom, playing in a natural way, plus running in the back, that's
what he did specially around the Sturridge goal.
"It's better than I expected, to be honest. "




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