Stoke City winger Xherdan Shaqiri has revealed how Bayern Munich blocked his move to Liverpool in 2014, while Bayern Munich are close to landing reported Reds target Niklas Sule.
Shaqiri was a wanted man after a solid showing at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which included scoring a hat-trick against Honduras, and a transfer away from Bayern seemed inevitable with the Swiss international struggling for playing time.
Speaking to Spox (h/t Liverpool Echo's James Pearce), the 25-year-old revealed how then-Reds manager Brendan Rodgers tried desperately to land him and how he eventually settled on Inter Milan a year later:
I wanted to leave that summer and had offers from Liverpool and Atletico.