Sitting in a room with Granit Xhaka for football.london before the start of the season ahead of the release of the first episodes of the All or Nothing documentary, the Arsenal midfielder struck a determined figure. However, it wasn’t evident in that moment that the midfielder we’ve seen this season would emerge.
Mikel Arteta has unlocked something different in Granit Xhaka this season and whilst his position shifted toward the second half of last season, he has taken another step at the beginning of this. Another assist today, which should have been two, sees him become an unlikely Fantasy Football asset but most of all an offensive benefit to this Arsenal side.
Yet, despite this, what was most telling about the transformation of the player was what was heard in the ground and through the speakers of the television sets of those sitting at home. It went something like this…
