GRANIT XHAKA

I guess I'd say I'm quite an aggressive player. Fair but aggressive, someone who likes the tough stuff.

You can see the players are world-class just by the way they pass the ball. Ozil, Sanchez, and Cazorla, for example, are huge personalities. Even though the club maybe spent more money on me, I can still learn a lot from them in any respect.

The first few months in a new country are always really hard.

I don't think Gladbach are on the same level as Arsenal.

Individual quality doesn't decide games for us but the whole team.

I can't stand people who are backward. I am honest, straightforward. I don't like to pretend. And I will not change either.

London is really nice, and I'm really happy here, but, of course, I've moved here to play football and not just to be in the city.

I like to play football. I'm an aggressive player and also a leader.

You always need a certain amount of time to fully adjust; it was no different when I moved to the Bundesliga.

I heard my new team-mates saying, 'We have got to hope that we don't go down.' I thought to myself, 'What kind of a mentality is that?'

If you win, you're heroes. But if you don't, then you're losers. That might sound harsh, but that's the way it is.

I will give everything to help Arsenal win trophies and make the fans happy.

Lots of people talk about the character of our team, that it's not right and that we need to do more. But we always show that we can come back.

You can't afford to rest on your laurels at all, or you'll instantly be on the bench.

I wouldn't change myself for anybody. I am who I am; people accept me, or they don't. I have my strengths and my weaknesses, which I can try to improve upon, of course. I'm still not the finished product.

When I went to Gladbach from Basel in 2012, I put a lot of pressure on myself at first, and it was too heavy. I will not put any pressure on myself at Arsenal, even though the transfer fee was high.

No, Borussia is not falling apart. It does not matter whichever players will leave. That is what the past has showed. The club has developed and actually improved despite big-name players leaving.

What happens here, the daily agenda of Arsenal, is very different from what I experienced in Monchengladbach.

My game is about being aggressive, and I'm not the same player if you take that away from me.

Here at Basel is where I made my first professional steps. I came up and grew up through the FC Basel school.

To have six years of professional football under my belt already is really something.

There a lot of occasions when Albanians cause trouble, but then we are also very nice people. People sometimes forget that there are good people from the Balkans as well.

We always have hope. Hope dies last.

It's aggressive, and I like the way Arsenal play football. It's not like other countries, but it's very, very nice here.

The fans are amazing. I'm really happy here at Arsenal, and I'm going to do my best for this club.