Switzerland 'leader' Granit Xhaka has seen 'big change' and it's all down to Mikel Arteta AFC
Sir Jim Ratcliffe 'will bid' for Man United after Glazer family put club up for saleGermany 1-2 Japan LIVE: Huge World Cup shock again as Asano and Doan turn it around'You treat world class players differently' - Keane and Wright clash over Ronaldo“Even without being the captain, he will always pick the players up. At the time, we had [Stephan] Lichtsteiner as our captain.
Matters came to a head when Xhaka reacted angrily to being booed off by Arsenal fans when he was substituted against Crystal Palace in October 2019 and was subsequently stripped of the captaincy by Unai Emery. Criticism has also been previously aimed at Xhaka for his discipline on the field and it seemed like it would only be a matter of time before he quit the Emirates following Emery’s decision to strip him of the captaincy.
“There was no question about it. That shows, again, a manager needs time to put his ideas across [and] a manager needs time for the players to understand the vision and philosophy and Granit took his [opportunity] straight away. Sometimes we tend to forget that players or footballers or athletes are not robots. We are human [and] we have feelings.
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