When Xherdan Shaqiri left Liverpool for Lyon last summer the deal was always destined to be one of those fairly rare occasions where Liverpool made a loss.
Having paid £13.2m for the Swiss from a relegated Stoke City side in the summer of 2018, there was some question over whether he could deliver on the kind of promise that he showed earlier in his career having faltered during a pretty miserable spell in the Potteries.
But Reds boss Jurgen Klopp knew that Shaqiri could play an important role, albeit not as prominent as he had previously been used to.
