As a squad player pushing for a start a very good signing. If he is the only creative player we bring in to replace Coutinho then MEH.
Did you really feel we suffered a lot since Coutinho left? If anything ball movement has been much better.
@ Veinticinco de Mayo The way you talk to other users on this forum is something you should be ashamed of as someone who is suppose to be representing the site.
To be fair, he does take a lot of long range shots.
Shots Outside the box per 90 in the Premier League in 2017/18:-Coutinho 3,1Pedro 2,1De Bruyne 2,1A.Sanchez 2,1Pogba 1,9Stanislas 1,9Erikson 1,7Xhaka 1,6Shelvey 1,5Ibe 1,4Antonio 1,4Chamberlain 1,3Richie 1,3Rashford 1,3Shaqiri 1,3Also tactically, you need a long range threat in your side. Which means signing someone who is competent from long range. This forces the opposition to close him down which creates movement in a low block. It's another reason why we struggle without Chamberlain or Coutinho in the side at times against those sides. Plus it ignores the fact that Shaqiri is a direct set piece taker for his team, which is disingenuous. 0,4 of his shots are from set pieces which reduces his shots from outside the box to 0,9 per game from open play. Does that still sound like something he is doing too much. That he is terribly wasteful? Something he does less than once per game? Then just looking at shots from outside the box as a standalone metric is disingenuous. Because if it is something you tactically want from your side, then you can't just blindly discourage it across the board. Therefore you need to find a way of valuing the shots a player is taking from there and weighing up whether the player doing so should be discouraged or not. A way to do this would perhaps be to check the shooting accuracy of those players.Coutinho 31,48%Pedro 35,71%De Bruyne 41,49%A.Sanchez 37,68%Pogba 23,68%Stanislas 44,44%Erikson 40,21%Xhaka 25,76%Shelvey 21,43%Ibe 31,48%Antonio 44,12%Chamberlain 39,47%Richie 27,12%Rashford 34,43%Shaqiri 46,38%So it seems out of the 15 non-forward players who take the most long shots in the Premier League, Shaqiri has the best shot on target ratio. But is he effective with his long range shooting? Let's look at the ratio of long shots to goals for the players. Coutinho 9,8 Shots per GoalPedro 12 SpGDe Bruyne 14,4 SpGA.Sanchez 40 SpGPogba 46 SpGStanislas 27 SpGErikson 31 SpGXhaka 58 SpGShelvey 37 SpGIbe 32 SpGAntonio 0 goals in 21 shotsChamberlain 22 SpGRichie 42 SpGRashford 0 goals in 26 shotsShaqiri 8,8 SpGOkay, so he has the best ratio of shots from outside the box to goals from outside the box in the Premier League. He also gets most of his shots on target from that selection of players too. So anybody painting his shooting as either wasteful, ineffective or "too frequent" really needs to get their facts right. All the above is based on whoscored.com rather than using data I have download to make sure it is verifiable to all
Welcome to the family Shaq.Only question..........Where is the lean?
I'm disgusted this thread isn't called Enter Shaqiri.
This photo makes me happy.
Did Gini know him previously?They look like old friends reunited 🤩
Have anyone's initials ever seemed more apt?
He walked in the locker room, sat down and then almost jumped in shock "Wow I didn't see you with all that red on. They weren't joking when they said you are invisible". Then they both laughed at the suggestion because it's absolutely fucking ridiculous.
Oh and...
I replied to someone on this before.https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=340364.msg16116739#msg16116739
video: https://twitter.com/LFC/status/1017874852944973824Looks like Gini just being his happy, lovely self!