London: Swiss attacking midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri has joined Stoke City from Inter Milan for a club-record fee of £12 million ($18.7 million, 16.9 million euros), the Premier League club announced on Tuesday.


Xherdan Shaqiri 

The 23-year-old Switzerland international, who only joined Inter from Bayern Munich in January, has signed a five-year contract at the Britannia Stadium. Shaqiri's transfer eclipses the fee of around £10 million that Stoke paid Tottenham Hotspur to sign Peter Crouch in 2011.