✍️ OFFICIAL Granit Xhaka (Out)

[tcahill]

Bad deal, but our hands are tied. The board know we aren't competing for top 4 with Xhaka as a starting CM. Roma know they're the only interested party, and if we don't accept there's a serious risk of us being stuck with him next season.

Without Xhaka leaving we can't bring in a Neves/Bissouma etc so let's just get this done and move on.

 

[gunner4lyfe]

It’s because his age, his relationship with his club and him and club wanting to go separate ways. That’s what bring down his value

If he didn't want to go, no club would want him.

 

[Rasmi]

If he didn't want to go, no club would want him.

But he had offers from Germany last time fans booed and our manager begged him to stay. Players are taking pay cuts to get away from us.

 

[Ash10]

But he had offers from Germany last time fans booed and our manager begged him to stay. Players are taking pay cuts to get away from us.

He had one offer from the mighty Hertha Berlin. Nobody other then our delusional fanbase ever thought of him as anything more than a mid-table player

 

[Rasmi]

He had one offer from the mighty Hertha Berlin. Nobody other then our delusional fanbase ever thought of him as anything more than a mid-table player

We are mid table team as we finished 8th twice and he has always been a starter here and would be next season ahead of lokongo

 

[Tourbillion]

This is the one player I'd accept a bad deal for. It's so crticial we get him out by any means possible to revamp literally everything about the way this team plays.

Of course the manager will still handicap us, but one giant baby step at a time.

 

[Ash10]

We are mid table team as we finished 8th twice and he has always been a starter here and would be next season ahead of lokongo

So we should not buy anyone, stick with this walking piece of mediocrity as starter & stay a mid table club?

 

[Taneruit]

Bad deal, but our hands are tied. The board know we aren't competing for top 4 with Xhaka as a starting CM. Roma know they're the only interested party, and if we don't accept there's a serious risk of us being stuck with him next season.

Without Xhaka leaving we can't bring in a Neves/Bissouma etc so let's just get this done and move on.

Uhm

Xhaka wanted out (and from all we know has wanted this for a while. We first heard about it from the coaches when he was injured). There's no rush or any indication that we wanted to sell him, especially in this window.

If it was and we wanted to *transform our midfield* we wouldn't be looking at like-for-likes (Neves, Koopheimer, Locatelli)

 

[Arai]

 

[Rasmi]

Uhm

Xhaka wanted out (and from all we know has wanted this for a while. We first heard about it from the coaches when he was injured). There's no rush or any indication that we wanted to sell him, especially in this window.

If it was and we wanted to *transform our midfield* we wouldn't be looking at like-for-likes (Neves, Koopheimer, Locatelli)

thank you, they want to paint this picture the club is unhappy with xhaka and what he brings to the club. When we begged him when fans turned on him. He stayed with the promise he could gotta hell out of here and he is willing to take significant wage cut just to leave. And we are searching for the next xhaka....thats how much of an impression he made on Arsenal. Fans always downplay players when they want to leave. And by all means lokonga looks like his replacement

 

[Barry]

Getting well and truly bent over there.

Horrible deal

 

[Gunners1616]

Hard to understand how come no other club wants Xhaka despite his excellent Euros...

Clubs like Milan, Napoli or even German clubs should be all over him. Very weird.

 

[GoonerJeeves]

Hard to understand how come no other club wants Xhaka despite his excellent Euros...

Clubs like Milan, Napoli or even German clubs should be all over him. Very weird.

Might be the player himself having indicated that he wants Roma. Some of those quotes seemed to lean that way.

 

[Oxeki]

Imagine Sturridge with our medical team back then? He would have been another Rosicky/Diaby type we saw once a year.

Tbf, 2013 sturridge was injury free. If he came here and scored 21 goals for us like he did for pool the following season, We'd have won the league in 2014 easily. I guaranty he'd have scored more than that amount because he'd have had guys like Santi, Wilshere, Ramsey etc creating chances for him

 

[Taneruit]

Hard to understand how come no other club wants Xhaka despite his excellent Euros...

Clubs like Milan, Napoli or even German clubs should be all over him. Very weird.

We know he rejected another italian club already. Probably rejected others as well.

Main reason is probably that Mourinho already buttered him up for a while. And when Mou left Tottenham (and the prem) that became the opportunity and when his mind went.

 

[Ash10]

Hard to understand how come no other club wants Xhaka despite his excellent Euros...

Clubs like Milan, Napoli or even German clubs should be all over him. Very weird.

I love how just having one great game has made people come up with the notion that he had 'excellent' Euro

Plus clubs have seen him be awful for us for five years

 

[Malky]

Terrible deal. This regime has operated so poorly in terms of signings, loans and now sales, it’s unbelievable. It’s bad deal after bad deal.

It's the level of incompetence you'd expect when we've got rookies running the club.

 

[Malky]

Getting well and truly bent over there.

Edu's too busy on holiday, getting bent over by Raul, to care.

 

[gunner4lyfe]

But he had offers from Germany last time fans booed and our manager begged him to stay. Players are taking pay cuts to get away from us.

He wanted to leave then as well. Its Arteta who convinced him to stay.

 

[Macho]

We can't complain about the fee when the majority of the fanbase thinks he is dogshit, just doesn't make sense.

The important thing is we claw something back and do something decent with the funds.