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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Premier League: Why Liverpool may already their Xherdan Shaqiri replacement lined up for next season



Liverpool has reportedly rejected a loan offer from AS Roma for Xherdan Shaqiri, but a summer departure seems likely – and Jürgen Klopp may already have his replacement. You can buy Premier League Tickets from our website, around the world to enjoy its terrific performances.

Liverpool has reportedly turned down a loan offer from AS Roma for Xherdan Shaqiri, according to Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano, with the Serie A club supposedly interested in the Swiss international as a replacement for the injured Nicolo Zaniolo for the remainder of the season.
Shaqiri has only made 10 appearances for Liverpool all season (three of them from the start), playing just 256 minutes, but when handed his first start of the campaign in the Merseyside derby in early December, he offered a timely reminder of his quality with a well-taken goal in a polished all-round display.
At this stage, there would seem to be very little benefit for Liverpool in letting him go, while for the player himself, it's more than likely that he'll be adding a Premier League winner's medal to his collection come to the end of the season and be able to play his part in an iconic chapter in the club's history.
By the summer, though, there will definitely be a conversation to be had about his future, and at 28, it seems probable that he'll seek a new challenge elsewhere where he has greater prospects of regular first-team football, especially given the arrival of Takumi Minamino, who will almost certainly climb above Shaqiri in the pecking order in due course.
Harvey Elliott
Harvey Elliott has impressed enormously virtually every time he has been handed an opportunity since joining in the summer, performing with a maturity well beyond his years. Even at 16, he already looks comfortable performing at senior level for Liverpool, and in the FA Cup victory against Everton, gave Lucas Digne – a French international – a torrid time.
For the U23s on Monday night in the 5-0 win against Southampton, he was one of the top performers once again, producing a composed finish after an intelligent run to latch on to Pedro Chirivella's pass and open the scoring.
In terms of profile, there are similarities with Shaqiri, in that Elliott is also a heavily left-footed, diminutive creative attacker, best suited to cutting inside from the right-hand side, but capable of slotting into a number of different roles, with the skillset to potentially play across the forward line in years to come.
Klopp thinks about Liverpool signing
That isn't to say that Liverpool won't invest in new attacking signings in the summer as well, but as succession planning for the future of the attack becomes ever more important as time moves on, Elliott is likely to become increasingly involved in Klopp's thinking, rather than going out on loan as many youngsters do when trying to gain experience.
The fact that he's already training regularly with some of the best players in the world at Melwood can only accelerate his development, alongside his regular involvement for the U23s.
It's important not to place too much pressure on such young shoulders, and development doesn't necessarily follow a linear trajectory, but on the evidence so far, it wouldn't come as a major surprise if Elliott is ready to take Shaqiri's place in the squad, and starts to feature much more heavily for the senior side (not just in domestic cup competitions) sooner rather than later.
At the very least, Elliott will have pre-season to show why that should be the case.
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