Switzerland national team captain Granit Xhaka revealed that he came very close to leaving the Gunners at one stage, with Arteta credited with reversing his fortunes.
A little about the topic
Xhaka suffered a very public fallout with Arsenal supporters back in 2019 when he was booed off the pitch during an Premier League clash with the Eagles. There seems to have been no turning back for Granit at that point, with a move to another location considered a formality, but the fighter 30-year-old has been dealt with by his current boss and is now fast becoming a cult hero at Emirates Stadium.
What did Granit Xhaka say?
Talking about his infamous outburst towards Gunners supporters and how he worked his way back to favour, the Swiss midfielder said that of course he had one option after that that had to go because it was too much for him. . According to Granit Xhaka, the people who supported him for the first three years, today or tomorrow, were not with him. How did he deal with it? At that moment, Granit was so strong. He doesn’t want to go back and feel the same pain. But according to Xhaka, he was very strong.
The Swiss was very, very close to leaving. When he says that, he just had to take his things and leave the door. Arteta was the guy who stopped him. Xhaka had a good conversation with Mikel Arteta, he had never met him before. The Swiss told him from the first meeting that he wanted to leave. Granit Xhaka says it wasn’t against him, but the story that happened here, he can’t play with that shirt again.
The Swiss national team player with three goals to his name this season added on his remarkable turn in north London that he knew both himself and Mikel Arteta and his team that could turn everything around. Granit Xhaka prepared for this. The Swiss says that he is not here because his father is a coach and he constantly chooses his son, he thinks he has the quality to be a good player for this football club. He wants something back. According to Granit Xhaka, football is not all about going up, they have to go down sometimes.