While not yet a done deal, the weekend’s shock news that Granit Xhaka wants to leave Sunderland for Chelsea looks very ominous. It has been confirmed that Sunderland have rejected an ‘insulting’ £8m offer for Xhaka but it appears clear the Swiss international wants away. Considering Xhaka’s end of season comments about being settled at Sunderland and being on the ‘beginning of a journey’, this is a bitter low. Xhaka’s choice to come to Sunderland from Bayer Leverkusen had seemed to indicate...