Liverpool snapped up Xherdan Shaqiri following Stoke’s relegation out of the Premier League, but Charlie Adam claims the Swiss star “never turned up” for the Potters when the chips were down.
With a top-flight standing under threat in 2017-18, those at the bet365 Stadium were looking to star turns for inspiration.
They found very little, with Shaqiri among those to have seen his attitude questioned after doing little to halt a slide towards the Championship.
Liverpool still saw enough in the mercurial 26-year-old to trigger a £13 million ($17m) release clause in his contract, but they have been warned that the former Inter and Bayern Munich forward has a tendency to go missing.