Inter move gives Shaqiri chance to relaunch career

MILAN: Xherdan Shaqiri’s move to Inter Milan has given the impish Swiss player the chance to relaunch a career which has not quite lived up to its early promise.
Shaqiri could make his Serie A debut at Empoli on Saturday (tomorrow) following his move from Bayern Munich, where he showed flashes of brilliance during his two-and-a-half year stay but never won a regular place in the team.
Bayern was always seen as a risky move for Shaqiri who showed enormous potential when he made his international debut as a 18-year-old and was a teenager when he was voted Switzerland’s Player of the Year in 2011.
After a promising first season when he helped Bayern win the treble under Jupp Heynckes, Kosovo-born Shaqiri fell out of favour under Pep Guardiola and has started just three Bundesliga games this season.
He has now moved to a club, which, like himself, needs a shot in the arm after finishing ninth and fifth in the last two seasons.
“I wasn’t completely happy at Bayern,” the 23-year-old, who scored a hat-trick against Honduras at the World Cup, told reporters.