Imagine the fume man. Hope they get him and we just give Burnley the asking price for Trafford for the ****s and giggles... (Don't like Trafford personally mind).
TBR Football understands that Sunderland co-owner Juan Sartori is pushing the move, and Xhaka has been offered a three-year deal which would see him become the club’s highest earner. I stopped reading after this... Sacha said it was KLD man
I’ve just read the article and it seems that it’s Bailey putting the info out there about other clubs “TBR Football chief correspondent Graeme Bailey understands that a number of clubs are now alerted to Xhaka’s potential availability.” Which is good, because Bailey is all over the place.
I do however think this could be another case of our interest in a player being leaked early to provoke interest from elsewhere. And this is what I meant earlier when I said the deals we HAVE done have been over super quickly after being in the public domain (of course they may have gone on for ages behind the scenes)
The Xhaka link has gone on too long for us, albeit only 2 days. Our recent history is a rumour 1 hour before and then deal done.
It always does to me when we're reported to have "enquired" or "have interest in". It seems pretty certain its true that we want him. But the fact it got leaked to Sacha always felt like it was to get more interest be it from Saudi or elsewhere.