Xherdan Shaqiri might have been the cheapest signing for Liverpool in the summer, but he certainly has come up big for us this season. The Reds sit on top of the Premier League with a six-point lead and Shaqiri came up trumps in the win over Manchester United.
The Alpine Messi scored a brace against the Red Devils while he also found the back of the net in the 4-0 win over Newcastle. The 27-year-old has scored six goals and provided a couple of assists from just eight starts in the Premier League, and some Liverpool fans started comparing him with Philippe Coutinho.
The Brazilian left the Reds for Barcelona after a lot of negotiations in the winter window but he hasn’t performed better than the Shaq in terms of goals.
Coutinho only has four goals and an assist in the Spanish league from nine starts, and that was enough for some fans to call out the former Red.
Who needs coutinho when we got shaqiri.. shark attack!!!#YNWA #Liverpoolfc
— HAZRIN (@Dr_Stein696) December 27, 2018
Philipe Coutinho best season at Liverpool (2016/17)
31 appearances
13 goals
7 AssistsXherdan Shaqiri at the halfway stage (2018/19)
14 games (Largely from the bench)
6 goals
2 assistsNot bad for £13.5m
— AnfieldNotion (@AnfieldNotion) December 26, 2018
Shaqiri > coutinho
Won’t tell you again.
— Big Al (@Kloppaganda) December 26, 2018
Coutinho out for £142m
Shaqiri in for £13.5m pic.twitter.com/cMzFXjUTsc— Scot Williams (@scotwilliams) December 26, 2018
Shaqiri is better than Coutinho
Not even joking— Brandon BnW1865 (@bdawson1902) December 26, 2018
6 goals and 2 assists having played just over 40% of minutes available in the league. Shaqiri has replaced Coutinho.
— Öwen (@or84) December 26, 2018
Coutinho who ? Get this fraud far away from my club ! With Shaqiri , I’m damn good #LFC
— Nick (@nicky_fizzy) December 26, 2018
Shaqiri > Coutinho
Change my mind
— ¿ɥnH ssᴉW ɹǝʌǝN ʎǝɥ┴ ssǝnפ (@moonwavez) December 26, 2018
Coutinho Who?? We have got Shaqiri!!!
— «SG8»YNWA!!! (@soodeep137) December 26, 2018
