Stoke City assistant manager Mark Bowen reveals the club are ‘hopeful and still waiting’ for Inter’s Xherdan Shaqiri.
The Swiss international seems likely to leave San Siro after just six months, with the Potters one of the teams in the running for his signature.
“We are still waiting,” Bowen told The Stoke Sentinel.
Stoke City assistant manager Mark Bowen reveals the club are ‘hopeful and still waiting’ for Inter’s Xherdan Shaqiri.
The Swiss international seems likely to leave San Siro after just six months, with the Potters one of the teams in the running for his signature.
“We are still waiting,” Bowen told The Stoke Sentinel.
“There is a limit to how long we can wait, but we are hopeful and still waiting, it's as simple as that.
“We know the qualities he's got and maybe in January we got excited for a few days thinking we could bring that kind of player to Stoke. It didn't happen then, but maybe it will happen now.
“The lad left Basel, went to Munich, and two-and-a-half years later he leaves there to go to Inter. Now it's only six months later.
“Maybe he's thinking whether he wants to move again or put down roots and stay in one place. That will be at the back of his mind, so you have to give a player like him the time.
“You can push, push, push, but there is a balance between doing that and giving him the time to make the right decision for himself. They have to want to sign.”