WIRE — Sunderland have rejected an £8m offer from Chelsea to sign midfielder Granit Xhaka. Chelsea have made an approach to sign the 33-year-old, with Xabi Alonso keen to reunite with his former Bayer Leverkusen player in West London. Xhaka excelled under Alonsos management in Germany, where he was part of the Leverkusen team that won the The post Sunderland snub Chelsea off for Granit Xhaka first appeared on The Football Faithful.
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