• ‘We had conversations and I went out to meet the boy,’ says Hughes• Stoke’s £13m offer was accepted by Inter but Shaqiri turned down moveMark Hughes has defended Stoke City’s ambitious pursuit of Internazionale’s Xherdan Shaqiri but conceded the club’s move for the Switzerland international is dead in the water.
Inter accepted Stoke’s £12m tender for the 23-year-traditional winger, who won the Champions League with Bayern Munich in 2013, and but Hughes failed to convince Shaqiri his future lay at the Britannia Stadium and the club drew a line under the transfer last week.
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Source: theguardian.com