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Liverpool are eyeing a summer swoop for Xherdan Shaqiri - but it has emerged the Reds wanted to sign the Swiss international FOUR years ago.

The winger is under consideration, along with Gent's Moses Simon, as Jurgen Klopp looks to strengthen his options out wide ahead of the new campaign.

The Switzerland international has a release clause in his contract following Stoke City's relegation from the Premier League that can be triggered by a bid of between £12million and £13.5m.

Stoke will seek a quick resolution to Shaqiri's future amid interest from the Reds.

But in an interview with German publication Spox in 2016, Shaqiri lifted the lid on how a move to Anfield had been agreed in 2014.

Bayern Munich and their new coach, Pep Guardiola, had other ideas.

"I really wanted to go in the summer and had offers from Liverpool and Atletico Madrid," he said. "I chose Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers had called me several times before the World Cup, but Bayern didn't allow me to leave.

"There were then various discussions in which it became a bit louder.

"The Bayern officials believed that the situation would change through the season, but it didn't. That's how it happened."

Liverpool were coming off a thrilling second-place finish in the Premier League in the summer of 2014, but would go on to struggle the following campaign following the departure of Luis Suarez, finishing sixth.

Shaqiri would eventually join Inter Milan in January 2015, before heading to the Premier League six months later.