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Ex-Bayern player Shaqiri signs with Stoke City

Former Bundesliga player Xherdan Shaqiri leaves Inter Milan and moves to the English first division club Stoke City . The 23-year-old Swiss national football team have signed a five-year contract, Stoke said.

Shaqiri costs Stoke City 17 million euros, making it the most expensive purchase in the club's history. He is already to be selected for next weekend match against Tottenham Hotspurs.

The winger played with Bayern Munich and won the Champions League in 2013 and was changed in January to Inter."It's no secret that we've been for quite some time behind Xherdan ago," Stoke manager said, "we are very pleased that we finally have his signature." At Stoke Swiss strikes the former Bundesliga professionals Philipp Wollscheid and Joselu.

Players from Fenerbahce Istanbul shot

A good four months after the armed attack on the team bus from Fenerbahce Istanbul two players of the Turkish first division side have been shot in a car.

Mehmet Topal (29) and teammate Uygar Mert Zeybek (20) were due to the bulletproof windows of the vehicle unharmed, reported the club. The two midfielders were on Tuesday in Topals car on the way home from the morning training, as it had led to the attack.

Fenerbahce spoke of a "terrorist act" and urged the authorities to take the perpetrator or perpetrators and to hold them accountable.On a photo on the Fenerbahce website the damaged windshield of a car could be seen.

Fenerbahce criticized at the same time, that the attack on the team bus of 4 April had not been elucidated. After the 5: 1 away win over Caykur Rizespor the team bus of the club was on my way to the airport Trabzon been shot with a gun, the crew was on board. The driver was injured and had to be operated.

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