GENEVA: Multi-million dollar transfer rumors surround Granit Xhaka which is increasing pressure on the Swiss midfielder to perform at the European Championship finals.

Despite being just 23, the rising star has been capped 40 times, with former Swiss national coach Ottmar Hitzfeld branding Xhaka a “young [Bastian] Schweinsteiger,” in a widely quoted comparison to the German football great.

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