'What a man' - Many Liverpool fans go wild for player decision: 'Klopp has to play him'

OPINION

The Switzerland national team revealed on their official Twitter account on Friday that Liverpool playmaker Xherdan Shaqiri has refused to be called up to his country’s squad because he wants to concentrate on his club football. The former Stoke City man will miss out on games against Gibraltar and the Republic of Ireland in order to stay on Merseyside and attempt to work his way further into manager Jurgen Klopp’s plans. The 27-year-old is in a strange place at the moment, a kind of purgatory where he’s a great squad player for a team like Liverpool, but not quite of...