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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Arthur Ferridge

Granit Xhaka breaks silence on Chelsea transfer interest: 'A big privilege'

Granit Xhaka has revealed he turned down a summer move to Chelsea as he felt he had unfinished business at Sunderland, despite acknowledging the Blues’ bid was a ‘big privilege’.

Chelsea came into the summer transfer window with the intent to add experience to their squad, and earmarked the 33-year-old Xhaka as an ideal target, due to both his lengthy top-flight career and past work with Xabi Alonso at Bayer Leverkusen.

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