{"id":1192,"date":"2026-07-01T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:05:19","slug":"sunderland-faces-double-transfer-threat-as-premier-league-rivals-could-meet-asking-price-for-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/sunderland-faces-double-transfer-threat-as-premier-league-rivals-could-meet-asking-price-for-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland faces double transfer threat as Premier League rivals could meet asking price for star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Furious&#8221; Sunderland play into Chelsea sporting directors&#8217; hands with \u00a330m demands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chelsea have bid for Granit Xhaka, but the sum was so low it\u2019s infuriated Sunderland \u2013 perhaps that was the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transfer guru Alex Crook has been on TalkSport today talking about the Chelsea \u00a38m bid for Granit Xhaka that has caused quite a stir this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crooks claims that the Black Cats are offended by the low ball offer, and have told the Blues to more than triple it if they want to the club captain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xhaka deal seems off the table at Sunderland\u2019s excessive asking priceGranit Xhaka in Switzerland training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/australia-v-switzerland-international-friendly-1536x1024-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/australia-v-switzerland-international-friendly-1536x1024-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agajahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/australia-v-switzerland-international-friendly-1536x1024-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agajahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/australia-v-switzerland-international-friendly-1536x1024-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agajahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/australia-v-switzerland-international-friendly-1536x1024-1-380x253.jpg 380w, https:\/\/agajahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/australia-v-switzerland-international-friendly-1536x1024-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/agajahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/australia-v-switzerland-international-friendly-1536x1024-1-1160x773.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/agajahub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/australia-v-switzerland-international-friendly-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was told Sunderland are demanding a fee in excess of \u00a330m to even entertain a Xhaka sale,\u201d Crook explained.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSunderland are furious because they told Chelsea he wasn\u2019t for sale, and then Chelsea came back and bid \u00a38m anyway\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frankly, this looks as though it\u2019s working out perfectly for Chelsea\u2019s sporting structure. They wanted to back their new manager, but didn\u2019t really want to sign a 33 year old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This way, they\u2019ve shown Alonso they mean business, but can tell him that the numbers Sunderland are asking for are simply too high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The equation can still change, however, if Xhaka decides to really push for a move and starts to burn his bridges in the North East. It will be interesting to see how things develop after the World Cup finishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other news\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chelsea and their sister club Strasbourg have been hit by another round of UEFA fines \u2013 pretty reasonable in Chelsea\u2019s case, pretty massive in Strasbourg\u2019s case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some pundits have not taken kindly to the Chelsea statement about Enzo Maresca which was released yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Furious&#8221; Sunderland play into Chelsea sporting directors&#8217; hands with \u00a330m demands Chelsea have bid for Granit Xhaka, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sunderland","tag-sunderland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}