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Shaqiri helping Liverpool pal Minamino settle

Liverpool attacker Xherdan Shaqiri says he's helped Takumi Minamino to settle on Merseyside.

The pair speak German, with Minamino having arrived in January from RB Salzburg.

Shaqiri told the club's website: "I like to be nice with everybody and joke with everybody.

"Of course, the people who speak German I speak [to] more a little bit, but it's not that I don't want to speak English, it's pretty normal because they played in Germany.

"Or helping Minamino, you know – he speaks better German than English.

"It's different in England. He needs to get used to life here in England, too.

"If he needs something we are here and we help him.

"He has already integrated very well and I hope he can enjoy it here.

"We have fun all together and we win all together, we are like a small family and that's very important."

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