News about Granit Xhaka

Former Arsenal star Granit Xhaka has issued a rallying cry to his former team-mates after their season was dealt a blow by crushing back-to-back defeats.  The Gunners have enjoyed an incredible season that has seen them play some superb football under Mikel Arteta, scoring 75 goals along the way to aid their title charge - but a 2-0 home defeat to Aston Villa handed the initiative to Man City.  Just days later, Arteta's side were then dumped out of the Champions League after a 3-2 defeat on aggregate against Bayern Munich, leaving them at risk of missing out on winning silverware this season. 

Bayer Leverkusen wing-back Jeremie Frimpong aimed a dig at Granit Xhaka during the celebrations of his side's Bundesliga title win on Sunday. Bayer secured their first-ever title with a 5-0 victory at home to Werder Bremen, as goals from Victor Boniface, Florian Wirtz and the Swiss international sparked jubilant scenes at the BayArena. Xhaka's arrival at the club last summer has coincided with a stunning season for the side, who are still yet to taste defeat in any competition.

KATHRYN BATTE AT THE BAYARENA: Granit Xhaka described Bayer Leverkusen's title win as 'special' but insisted his team-mates want more as they look to achieve an unprecedented unbeaten treble. Leverkusen were crowned German champions for the first time in their history on Sunday, with Xhaka scoring the second goal in a 5-0 victory over Werder Bremen. The former Arsenal midfielder joined Leverkusen in the summer and has been a key part of Xabi Alonso's team.

The latest international break may be over, but the narratives and discussions surrounding various national teams are only likely to rise in the run-up to Euro 2024. The 24 teams that will be competing in Germany this summer have been confirmed at the conclusion of Tuesday's play-off finals. Among the bookies' favorites to win the tournament are France, England, Germany, and Portugal, which will begin in Munich on June 14th.

The Brazil forward is now the subject of a seven-month FA probe into suspicious betting habits surrounding three yellow cards that Paqueta received last year for West Ham. Since the probe began, Paqueta hasn't played for Brazil, but Dorival Junior, the current head of the team, will return against England at Wembley on Saturday. Moyes continued to play his talisman this season, and Paqueta thanked the Hammers boss for his help.

Granit Xhaka's win over Mainz in the Bundesliga gave rise to a dramatic goal to open the scoring. The former Arsenal midfielder discovered the back of the net with ease from an effortless volley off the back of in-form Alex Grimaldo's deflected cross. Under Xabi Alonso's outstanding staff, the Swiss international has had a fruitful season in the Bundesliga.

Granit Xhaka has revealed what makes Bayer Leverkusen boss Xabi Alonso the 'new generation' of manager. Alonso's side is undefeated after 16 games and leads the Bundesliga by four points to Bayern Munich - who also have a game in hand. Former Arsenal captain Xhaka has been a key to the team's success, starting every game for Alonso's side in the league since his £21.5 million departure last summer.

Granit Xhaka, Arsenal's most popular on-pitch brawl with supporters, has revealed that there was just one person left at the club who wanted him to stay, with a move away that seems to have been all-but agreed. Xhaka's time at Arsenal was nothing short of spectacular, with the Swiss international leaving the team after scoring twice on the final day of the season. It was the fitting end to a player that had been on such a turbulent journey in north London, having previously been the unofficial persona Non Grata at the Emirates before heading to Bayer Leverkusen.

Granit Xhaka may have left Arsenal in the summer, but he remains an avid fan and he couldn't avoid a cheeky dig at one of his former coworkers after losing 6-0 over Lens. Mikel Arteta's team thrashed French opponents at the Emirates Stadium, with a five-goal first half capped off by another goal in the second half to ensure safe passage to the Champions League's knockout stages. However, Arsenal captain Xhaka could not resist having a pop at the player who used to sit next to in the Emirates Stadium dressing room.

BAYERN MUNICH 2-2 LEVERKUSEN: Harry Kane hit the back of the net for the first time on a pulsing night in Munich, opening the scoring after less than seven minutes played. With Leroy Sane's inswinging corner, the England captain beat a former Premier League foe to nod the ball into the back of Lukas Hradecky's net. However, the newly promoted Bundesliga star left the field unhappy after failing to score his second in the second half, forcing Hradecky to make a heroic stretched save at close range.

When Bayern Munich hosts Leverkusen in a war of the unbeatens, Sky Bet are giving Harry Kane a 'Double Up Boost' to record two or more shots on target and Granit Xhaka to commit 1+ fouls. That bet had existed before and had been extended to 2/1. Kane has scored three goals in as many Bundesliga appearances to date, while Xhaka committed two fouls in Leverkusen's 5-1 victory over Darmstadt a fortnight ago.

Kosovo's Euro 2024 qualifier against Romania was postponed after Romanian supporters were heard chanting "Kosovo is Serbia." The offensive gesture, which also included banners being unfurled in the stands of Romanian supporters with the same message, resulted in the Kosovan players leaving the pitch before heading to the changing rooms. Only 19 minutes of the match had been played, with the score level at 0-0 at the time of the suspension. Kosovo and Serbia are at odds due to the fact that Kosovo is mainly ethnic Albanian-populated territory that was previously a Serbian province. In 2008, the country declared independence.

Late last night, the market slammed shut after a slew of competing forces scrambled to close their last-gasp deal, which included several dramatic big-money swoops. As is now normal, deal sheets for a handful of these transfers had been submitted, allowing Nottingham Forest in particular to invest heavily well after the deadline. The top-flight's overall expenditures had increased from £2.2 billion to more than £2.3 billion by 10.30 p.m. on the final day of business, largely due to a flurry of last-gasp moves. And when the switches were completed in 'deal sheet time', it was revealed that even the £2.4 billion target was beaten. Half of the division's income was spent on the window, while only four teams finished with an outlay of less than £50 million, including newcomers Sheffield United and Luton. Chelsea dominated the spending stakes this summer after pumping £428.8 million into their squad.

Premier League clubs will now have to make do with their current squads until January as the high-intensity drama of the transfer window begins to fade. The big boys in the division have been bolstered, the middle of the road sides have increased, and the teams that were supposed to face it out at the top of the table have also been increased. Transfers can make or break a team's fate during this 38-game marathon, with some teams wishing they didn't get a big contract because of the line, or ecstatic that their brand-new signing has come well. Supporters of each Premier League team will have their own minds already made up about their activity, but how does Mail Sport rank your team's dealings? Here are our A-E transfer ratings...

The Champions League is Europe's most coveted tournament, but you can never write off the Europa League when it comes to entertainment. Three English clubs will be represented. Following their success in the Europa Conference League, West Ham will be joined by Liverpool, who have a rich European tradition. Brighton, who have played some superb football under Roberto De Zerbi, will compete in Europe for the first time.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: In Rio de Janeiro, they adore their heroes as much as they do in other countries. It can be a strong kind of attachment. I saw it once more when I offended the people of Niteroi, a suburb on Guanabara Bay and is one of the nearest points of land to Paqueta Island. Around ten kilometers by sea. If you'll parphrase the tale, it was the tail end of two decades ago and I discovered myself flying with a yacht race, which required one day to complete a story about Torben Grael, the Brazilian sailor. He's a good man and a great sport, the actor of Niteroi, and one of his brothers is now mayor of Niteroi. Oricum, the piece was vaguely critical of his reaction to a pressurized situation, and so the emails were sent. There were a few hundred people before long, and then there was a note from a friend who was working in Grael: 'Maybe you didn't go to Niteroi for 20 years.'

MATT HUGHES: In response to widespread questions about spot-fixing during matches, the FA is urging gambling companies to remove yellow cards and other in-game incidents. The FA is concerned that yellow card markets in particular are vulnerable to manipulation, and the department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport has received a positive response during initial talks.

Joleon Lescott, a former England defender, has resigned as England Under 21s coach because he wants to work as a sports director. During this summer's Euros, Manchester City, Everton, and Wolves centre back Lee Carsley's England side triumphed in Georgia by defeating Spain 1-0 in the final.

The asylum seeker, who is believed to be an Afghan national, logged his ride through France before boarding the Channel on a packed boat and arriving at a migrant hotel in England. Rahat Popal's series of clips begins with him traveling by train to northern France with two other guys. As migrants prepare to migrate from the French coast to southern England, a video appears to show him marching with a group of others migrants. As they passed by a large container ship in the Channel, the man films himself crammed on a tiny dinghy with hundreds of other migrants, most young men with some perched on the edge of the overloaded boat.

With no automobiles permitted, tree-lined beaches, and year-round temperatures of 30 degrees, the tiny Paqueta Island must seem like paradise, but for the past few months this peaceful retreat from Rio de Janiero has been the epicenter of a brewing storm. In a Premier League game 6,000 miles away in March this year, a flurry of bets placed on the Brazilian national's most popular resident, Lucas Paqueta, sparked an international probe that has been slowly gathering pace for five months, exploding last Friday, resulting in the Brazilian international's demise last Friday. Lucas Tolentino de Lima is Paqueta's real name, but it is also common in Brazil for people to adopt the surname of the place they are from, resulting in Paqueta Island's discovery of the FA's betting investigation, which coincides with the island's biggest event of the year, Festa de Sao Roque. It's a religious festival in the ordinarily quiet streets of New England, with live music, fireworks, and a parade. However, not all of the island's 3,000 residents would have been keen to celebrate, as some of them seem to have placed their favorite son in the midst of a storm, potentially costing him millions of pounds.

Granit Xhaka, Arsenal's former skipper, has discussed his decision to leave the club before heaping praise on his former manager Mikel Arteta. During his time at the Emirates, the midfielder was seen as a public servant but he returned to become a key player for Arteta last season.

The discord, according to the Swiss cosmogyne, resulted from a "misunderstanding between the fans and me." Xhaka threw off his armband in reaction to applause from the crowd and was eventually stripped from the captaincy and exiled from the matchday squad.

Producers around the world will surely have been as empathetic as Arsenal fans at the end of last season, as Manchester City robbed Hollywood of one of sport's best comeback stories. Well, sealing a Treble in such manner as Pep Guardiola's side won by Erling Haaland on three fronts isn't exactly a poor story. But Mikel Arteta's youthful, beautiful, and dynamising side was an unexpected hero, four years ago, who seemed to be headed for the sack after being barred of captaincy. His destiny, under a pallescent and adamant cloud, seemed to be on his way to complete an extraordinary redemption story.

Granit Xhaka (right) has completed his £21.5 million transfer from Arsenal to Bayer Leverkusen on Thursday. The Switzerland central midfielder has agreed to a five-year deal. Since signing from Borussia Monchengladbach in summer 2016, Xhaka, 30, played 297 times in all competitions for the Gunners, scoring 23 goals.