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" I compliment Kramer perfectly. We both put in a lot of legwork, win many balls, and we're comfortable with the ball at our feet. We also talk a lot both off and on the pitch. "

Granit Xhaka

Win

Talk

Feet

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Real

" I've had four beautiful years at Monchengladbach and owe the club a lot. "

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Notice

You

" I never used to be taken seriously as a Swiss person. "

" My dad played football, too, in the former Yugoslavia. "

" I like to play football. I'm an aggressive player and also a leader. "

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Play

Football

" The first few months in a new country are always really hard. "

" I am a very simple man. I love normality, and I love normal people. I love to eat normal food. It's how I grew up. "

" It's true that my father was imprisoned for three and a half years, and it was because he stood up for what he believed in. It's not a taboo subject in our household. We talk about it. After all, I want to know what happened. "

" My brother was always going to go in the direction of football. With me, it was more between school and football. Eventually, it worked out for both of us. We're pleased to have gone down that path. I'm proud that my parents always supported us, in good and in bad times. You need that. "

" I still want to improve in every way. I'm a young player. I want to work, and that's my aim: to improve in every single aspect of my play. "

" In football, you get criticised if you are sent off. It's my style of play, and nobody can make me change that. Even if I get another red card, then that happens. You become cleverer, maybe look more, and since my red card, I think things have improved. "

Granit Xhaka

Think

Style

" I am still young; I am still fresh, and I want more. "

" The expectations are high, so we know: If we do not meet them, there is criticism. We have high expectations ourselves. We are not happy with fourth, third, or second, either. "

" I've picked up quite a few yellow cards in the last few years - a few reds, too. That was the case as a youth player as it is now. But I don't see it as a problem. That's how I play. If you take that away, then I wouldn't be where I am now. So I don't think the yellow cards or the red cards are too big of an issue. "

" It's not like I played my first football match in England. For me, football is pretty much the same everywhere; the ball is round, but maybe tactically, things are different than at other clubs I've played for. "

Granit Xhaka

Football

Different

" My goal is to become a key player in one of the ten best clubs in the world and become a leader there. "

" In football, you just have to develop yourself. "

" I know that there are coaches in the Bundesliga that have said in team meetings, 'Provoke Xhaka; he will eventually go ballistic.' I think that is sad. That, in my view, has nothing to do with football. "

" I wouldn't change myself for anybody. I am who I am; people accept me, or they don't. I have my strengths and my weaknesses, which I can try to improve upon, of course. I'm still not the finished product. "

Granit Xhaka

Myself

" You can't afford to rest on your laurels at all, or you'll instantly be on the bench. "

" I am in an outstanding city, an outstanding club. The only thing that Arsenal has been missing is a league title. "

" Individual quality doesn't decide games for us but the whole team. "

" Personally, I can handle criticism, especially when it is deserved, and it's because my dad never, ever said 'Well done' to me. He did it on purpose so that I kept my feet on the ground. "

Granit Xhaka

Well Done

Criticism

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" I'll give my all on the pitch, as I have in recent years. That's what is important. We will give our all to win something. "

" Here at Basel is where I made my first professional steps. I came up and grew up through the FC Basel school. "