13 Jul 2018 12:54:32
A number of people have compared the Shaqiri deal to the Ballotelli one, this can be discounted out of hand because the nature of Ballotelli's disruption was so extreme and un-professional, Shaqiri doesn't come close to his antics.

There's a far more important difference however. In 14/ 15 we had to rely on Ballotelli after Suarez left and Studge was injured for goals. Ballotelli's failure was a main reason for our poor season. We will not rely on Shaqiri at all. A) he's not a starter and b) even when he does play we won't be reliant on him as our main goal threat. Shaqiri is low risk in a way that Ballotelli wasn't.


1.) 13 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018 14:51:48
how do you know what antics shaqiri has been up to? bayern got rid of him for a reason, inter million got rid of him for reason, I've read the swiss team weren't very happy with him ( from a poster on here i think) .

talented player but let's see how he goes being on the bench first. if he signs we should all get behind him but don't try and hide the reasons why he is where he is.


2.) 13 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018 15:29:44
Rodgers played Balo up front on his own, it didn't work, but Rodgers just kept played him on his own,
everyone except Rodgers knew it would end in tears,
when he did get help up front, Balo was much better,
was I glad to see both Rodgers and Balo leave, Hell yes .


3.) 13 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018 15:37:58
PR, sorry but you are gravely mistaken or deflecting blame away from the true guilty party. The MAIN reason we had a poor season in 14/ 15 was cos of two words or one man: BRENDAN ROGERS and no one and nothing else. Balotelli did not sign himself. BR signed him or did nothing to stop it. Now this is after BR had said that Balotelli would NEVER join LFC after we were linked with him. What changed?

Well, Ed01 at the time said that there were other alternatives to Balotelli in Remy and especially Wilfried Bony. Bony was ready to come, the money was there and Swansea was willing to sell (he later went to City) BUT Rogers said NO and when it was too late, he had to settle for yep, Balotelli after making a complete fool of himself earlier.

Balotelli was a cancer in the DR and the Ed's have said so repeatedly on here. NOBODY including you, knows what Shaquiri was like in the Stoke DR except what has leaked in the media. Also as Swisch said, Shaquiri threw a strop with the Swiss team in Euro 2016 after he was not given the capt. 's band (awarded to Lichstiener) and threatened to quit the team to go play for Kossovo.

Also, he was a flop at Bayern not due to his talent BUT due to his disgusting attitude, laziness and work ethic. Same at Inter and wound up at Stoke cos NO big club would touch him. Same with Balotelli. He was at Nice for a reason after having flopped everywhere else since he left Inter in 2011. Let us just hope he comes good here BUT people need to stop rewriting history or stop making excuses for Shaquiri's failings cos we all know what happened and not all of us have short memories.