{"id":672015,"date":"2026-07-03T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672015\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:23:07","slug":"sunderland-transfer-news-granit-xhaka-staying-at-stadium-of-light-after-chelsea-bid-for-black-cats-captain-rejected-sky-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672015\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland transfer news: Granit Xhaka staying at Stadium of Light after Chelsea bid for Black Cats captain rejected &#8211; Sky Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi_wFBVV95cUxNNG9ESDlZWEp3UzVtZDVhX0Z2bTF4djBZQW12VWF0T3pTUFlQU3V6N3EyV1lXMWxOR2ZqM1RMNEExWHVkcmdDakV6TC1tYzBuUWJ1bHBOeUJwckhRamF0SWxkQ2lVaGxDYjd0NEZMd0N0TkpXaThfMFlRSFBaSmI5YkpobGJvVWVxVkNseUx0dkRtVk01UlFKa3c0dm9qcktNNklZNEh3alp1eml3Y0gwNzZCS1VOZE56dW1nMU01VFZ3RUdfTm1nRlN1MWE3MHQ2Z0pjaUl5ZkVhYjRJY2dFZjVWTEVfMlVuV2MtT1JTQVV6cnRqdXpZTFlOSjlKc2c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sunderland transfer news: Granit Xhaka staying at Stadium of Light after Chelsea bid for Black Cats captain rejected<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky Sports<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMifEFVX3lxTE1aZTI0Vm5DQ0lUZy02TEZWaUlyRUtlNHdYSkFtakRBVDdVdmVjWVJYandYNG9WN3VrTVEwTnJjMVplUUgxa09zR0JZTjV2VkhMRExDTl9SejBxOXdPUXY1SE5DWHBybzUyTFA0SFN4UUdFS1FidkliMmV1dVY?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chelsea and Xabi Alonso involved in \u2018real tug-of-war\u2019 over \u2018essential\u2019 \u00a325m star<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Football365<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiswFBVV95cUxOdE1PZnh2Qkw0aXA1c1huZ05tbWZKQ0FYTE5xaElQYlJwYm9vcjJpZUtyT0xqWUtCTE9ocnRmQ1dUZnF0cUF0UVA2ZW4yazFkSkd5dnRkOUtOeVdBTUcwbENXTTRiWWtnWTVWMkwxdWhGRFdremlHYXVHbXJyM2gtVlk2OFV1TTYzcHBfN2VYQVJESEdmS2JtbHJtd0J6bXhZMTVTbFZqTENoOWw3c0VNckptQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chelsea interested in Granit Xhaka to reunite midfielder with Xabi Alonso<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiZ0FVX3lxTE1RYXBSVUxWOWtsN3gzcDg4bU9YdU9tcHFnRTBMUjhZN2RYbGpiUHlTYkxRc1lEY2pycnR3QVc5SUxGY3NaLXpuWE9kTEcxR1hWcTVLYjZYS01icXF5R01PMzN1dGxoT0E?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Footballers have more spin than politicians&#8217; &#8211; fans on Xhaka-Chelsea link<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinwFBVV95cUxPUmZOcm52cy1YRTlEczFrUHZJZEo5Smo4VDdnMW9aZlJ2bUI5cW5NMFNoNmlrcjlzazcxMnNPaXRING1pRjBXRG1IMzVIT1lHUHhOaklGbGFtdkdhanFfRXNncnhvc0JPSm1WVVotVmFxMWFIaVIzMWdyZ0hpaV9QWko1YlRrclozTnc5S0tPaThTM0g0VWdqR1lINDFrSVE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Granit Xhaka breaks silence on Chelsea transfer links in middle of World Cup<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;talkSPORT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunderland transfer news: Granit Xhaka staying at Stadium of Light after Chelsea bid for Black Cats captain rejected&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}