{"id":17675,"date":"2025-07-29T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sunderland-transfer-news-black-cats-agree-17m-deal-for-granit-xhaka\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:53:08","slug":"sunderland-transfer-news-black-cats-agree-17m-deal-for-granit-xhaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sunderland-transfer-news-black-cats-agree-17m-deal-for-granit-xhaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland transfer news: Black Cats agree \u00a317m deal for Granit Xhaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A successful two-year spell in Germany followed, where Xhaka helped Leverkusen to their first ever Bundesliga title in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The deal will take Sunderland&#8217;s summer spending to a \u00a3114m this summer, albeit having recouped around \u00a337m through the sales of Jobe Bellingham and Tommy Watson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx232rg4xj9o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Only the traditional big six clubs in the Premier League have spent more than the Black Cats<\/a> after they gained promotion from the Championship through a play-off final win against Sheffield United in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Xhaka is set to be the club&#8217;s eighth summer signing, following the arrivals of Enzo Le Fee, Habib Diarra, Noah Sadiki, Reinildo Mandava, Chemsdine Talbi and Simon Adingra.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cm219dkz1xno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A successful two-year spell in Germany followed, where Xhaka helped Leverkusen to their first ever Bundesliga title in 2024. The deal will take Sunderland&#8217;s summer spending to a \u00a3114m this summer, albeit having recouped around \u00a337m through the sales of Jobe Bellingham and Tommy Watson. Only the traditional big six clubs in the Premier League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17677,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions\/17677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}