Beşiktaş have stirred to life over Granit Xhaka, the 33-year-old Switzerland midfielder currently at Sunderland. According to the latest word, the Turkish club's management has taken concrete action to pursue him, with their coach's approval, and a fee somewhere between £4.5m and £6.4m has been floated. That said, this remains firmly at the interest stage: no agreement, no advanced negotiations. Xhaka is contracted to Sunderland until 2028, which hands the Premier League side all the leverage. The sourcing here is thin. So far this rests on a single link from NTV Spor, a moderately reliable Turkish outlet, and the report is already nearly a fortnight old. There has been no corroboration from a benchmark reporter and nothing from the Sunderland side. One mid-tier voice, uncontested, is a slim foundation for a move of this size. The 13% reading marks this as a genuine longshot. For it to climb, Beşiktaş would need to convert vague interest into a formal bid and Sunderland would have to be willing to sell a player they only signed recently and tied down until 2028. The long contract, the absence of advanced talks, and the lone source all weigh against it. Right now there is desire on one side and silence on the other. Xhaka knows these moves: his £13m switch from Leverkusen to Sunderland in 2025 was a recent and substantial outlay, while Sunderland's own £5m sale to Saint-Étienne shows the kind of money they bank on exits. A £4.5m–£6.4m fee sits in plausible territory but undershoots a player they paid more for. Watch for a first concrete bid from Beşiktaş, or any sign Sunderland would entertain a sale.