Morning all, a very quick first Saturday of the off-season round-up for you. The big story this morning is that our first signing of the summer looks imminent. We've been consistently linked with Granit Xhaka for months now, and reports yesterday said that he had flown to London to finalise a deal. There had been conflicting reports of a high bid from Arsenal, then a low bid which, of course, made everyone go – ‘Oh typical Arsenal and Arsene Wenger, trying to buy a player with coins from down the back of the sofa and some flakes of skin in a little baggie which may or may not be scrapings of Jim Morrison's bunions'. The BBC report a fee of £30m, while the Guardian say it's £25m +...
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