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title: "Shaqiri not a big game player claims Adam"
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author: "Ethan Day"
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published: "2018-07-19T12:59:15Z"
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# Shaqiri not a big game player claims Adam

Xherdan Shaqiri’s former Stoke City team-mate Charlie Adam has claimed that the new Liverpool signing “went missing” in the big moments for Stoke, according to [Sky Sports News](https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11669/11441495/xherdan-shaqiri-went-missing-in-big-moments-for-stoke-says-charlie-adam).

Swiss international Shaqiri has recently completed a summer move to Liverpool which keeps the forward playing Premier League football after Stoke’s relegation last season.

![Alex Livesey/Getty Images Sport](https://cdn.readeverything.co/readliverpoolfc/2018/07/990756068.jpg)

The completed transfer is a £13.5 million deal and the forward will face stiff competition to cement a starting place in Jurgen Klopp’s set up after Liverpool’s front three of Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mo Salah impressing tremendously last season.

Adam, a former Stoke City team-mate, and former Liverpool midfielder himself has claimed that the player did not deliver in the big moments and should have stepped up more often given the plaudits he’d often receive.

The Scottish midfielder was part of Stoke’s squad that last season that suffered relegation to the Championship and he seemed resentful of Shaqiri in an interview with Sky Sports.

> When the chips are down you look at your big players, you want your big players to bring magic in one moment in the season, and at times we felt like the so-called big players in the squad never turned up for us and never performed.

Liverpool have also obtained the services of Fabinho, Naby Keita and as of yesterday Brazilian born Alisson who is set to complete a medical later this week following a £67 million fee being agreed between Liverpool and Roma.