The former Arsenal captain is being connected to bettering fraud according to The Mail Sport. A bet placed on Granit Xhaka of £152,000 receiving a yellow card in the final 10 minutes of the final Premier League Game. Xhaka revived a yellow card for standing over the ball and delaying a free kick
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🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Granit Xhaka's booking against Leeds United is being investigated following major suspicious betting activity.
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— Football Tweet ⚽ (@Football__Tweet) June 17, 2022
Granit Xhaka’s mysterious booking in Arsenal’s win at Leeds last season is being investigated by the National Crime Agency amid suspicions of a major betting scandal. There has never been any suggestion of any wrongdoing by Xhaka or any other Arsenal player. [Mail] #afc pic.twitter.com/u6pd5RykGd
— afcstuff (@afcstuff) June 17, 2022
EXCL: Granit Xhaka's booking against Leeds is being investigated amid suspicions of a MAJOR scandal following suspicious betting activity | @MattHughesDM https://t.co/eEACCVbqFZ pic.twitter.com/4AFB8rRFg2
— MailOnline Sport (@MailSport) June 17, 2022
Be interesting to see how this story develops, you can see it in South America that it’s full of this type of betting fraud in the game of football. If this comes to be true there could be serious consequences for this action.
As if Mikel Arteta needs anything off the filed going on at this moment, as the former Spanish player try’s to get the Gunners back on track for next season.