{"id":11509,"date":"2022-04-13T23:58:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=213432"},"modified":"2022-04-13T23:58:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:28:59","slug":"granit-xhaka-wont-leave-arsenal-until-he-achieves-something-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/granit-xhaka-wont-leave-arsenal-until-he-achieves-something-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Granit Xhaka won\u2019t leave Arsenal until he achieves something special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Granit Xhaka has emphasized how he will not depart Arsenal unless he has attained \u201csomething special,\u201d as much as stressing his ambition to build his rapport with the club\u2019s fanbase. The Swiss player has not charmed off Emirates Stadium fans, although he continues as committed as any.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNo, no, I want to achieve something with this club, something special. Before that, I don\u2019t leave.\u201d Xhaka spoke via<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Players\u2019 Tribune<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Xhaka decided to join Arsenal from Borussia Monchengladbach worth \u00a335 million ($46 million) in 2016, and since then has solidified himself as a vital member of the squad. The midfielder\u2019s crappy behavioural record has polarized fans, and he infamously blasted a chunk of the home fans to \u201cf*ck off\u201d upon getting booed because he was replaced during a Premier League match versus Crystal Palace in October 2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Just after the episode, Unai Emery relieved Xhaka of his captain powers and excluded him from the manager\u2019s agenda, however, the Spaniard was fired a month afterwards. Mikel Arteta was then hired to succeed Emery, and he progressively lured Xhaka back into the loop, despite the Switzerland international spurning moving bids to remain in north London. Last August, the 29-year-old inked a new contract until 2024, which he hopes to uphold, and he is keen to enhance his relationship with supporters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Well throughout his six-year stint at Arsenal, Xhaka has netted 13 goals and contributed 22 assists in 242 outings throughout all tournaments. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Throughout that span, the erstwhile Gladbach midfielder garnered two FA Cup winners\u2019 medals, but now with Arsenal essentially off of all major competitions, he won\u2019t be expanding anything to his trophy cabinet this season.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xhaka joined Arsenal from Borussia Monchengladbach in 2016.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":33979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[270,2541,1738,1843,1970,702,2105,701],"class_list":["post-11509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-arsenal-fc","tag-arteta","tag-borussia-monchengladbach-fc","tag-granit-xhaka","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-swiss","tag-unai-emery"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}