GRANIT Xhaka is no doubt one of the best players in the current Arsenal squad, as he has been extremely helpful to the team.
The Switzerland midfielder was on the verge of leaving the club in 2019 after an action that found him booed from the field during a Premier League meeting with Crystal Palace.
The 30-year-old player, who could have been on his way to Roma, was handed hope by Arsenal's current manager, Mikel Arteta who has done a good job with the player.
Reflecting on his infamous blast at Arsenal supporters and how he worked his way back into favour, Xhaka has told BBC Sport: “Of course, after that, I had one option, which was to leave because it was too much for me.
"People that were there supporting me for the first three years, today, or tomorrow they were not with you. How I dealt with that? In the moment, I was so strong. I don’t want to go back and feel the same pain I had. But I was very strong.
“I was very, very close [to leaving]. When I say that, it was like I only had to take my stuff and leave the door. Mikel was the guy who stopped me from leaving.
"I had a good conversation with him, I had never met him before. I told him from the first meeting we had ‘I want to leave. It was not against him, but the story that happened here, I can’t play again with that shirt.”
