May 21, 2016 | Awake & Dreaming

Granit Xhaka to be announced as an Arsenal player within hours as he poses in kit. He leaves Borussia Monchengladbach for around £30m after four years at the Bundesliga club. Arsenal are yet to confirm the news but these pictures from inside the Gunners’ London Colney training complex appear to show Xhaka posing for photos ahead of his unveiling. The midfielder has a big reputation in Germany and at 23 is expected to have a bright future. The move has been a long time coming with Xhaka repeatedly insisting he wanted the deal done before this summer’s Euro 2016 in France. He flew to England yesterday after Arsene Wenger made a breakthrough in negotiations. The 23-year-old then would have undergone a medical before signing his contract and completing the formalities.

Xhaka, 23, flew to London on Friday to undergo a medical and agree personal terms with the Gunners, with both sides eager to get the deal done before Xhaka joins the Switzerland squad for the European Championship. Arsenal would not confirm the authenticity of the photos, which also showed the midfielder holding up an Arsenal shirt and standing outside the training facility. But a source told ESPN FC the deal was close to being finalised and that the club hoped to announce the signing as soon it was completed. Arsenal have been in talks with Gladbach for weeks after manager Arsene Wenger made powerful central midfielder Xhaka one of his top targets.

Gladbach sporting director Max Eberl confirmed earlier this week that the German club had received an offer for Xhaka, but declined to name the interested party and insisted no agreement had yet been reached. Xhaka has impressed for club and country in recent years, and revealed that he wanted to resolve his future before representing Switzerland at Euro 2016.

Sleep is one-third of our lives: write a post about it. Do you love naps? Have trouble falling alseep? Wish you could remember your dreams? Remember something especially vivid? Snuggle under a blanket, or throw the windows wide open? Meditate on sleep.

Ah, sleep. Sleep that must do thing on a daily basis which if we do not take we will regret. Sometimes I think sleep is a necessary evil; if we didn’t need to sleep for 6-8 hours we could do so much other stuff during that time. And then some days I can’t wait till my head hits the pillow and I crawl between the sheets and drift off into la la land.

I love the days when I am so tired and can get into bed relatively quickly to that feeling. I hate sleeping in buses or trains and perhaps even in an airplane seat because they aren’t comfortable. Unless I can get into one of those really expensive planes which is beyond me right now. I need a proper bed and I need some privacy, seeing that I sleep in the nude (I can still sleep in an undershirt or even a t-shirt but it’s difficult to sleep while still wearing underwear because you gotta free the balls, you know) and I can’t really relax unless I do that.

I am fascinated with dreams, I tend to write down some really awesome or weird or strange ones. I wake up and knowing that I will forget in a few minutes or so, I switch on my pc and start blogging about it. I can remember some really old ones too, like back when I was 8 or 9 years old because I wrote it down in a diary and talked about it a lot. I usually close the windows at night, as I do not want insects or in one or cases baby bats to fly inside my room. In the afternoons I would love to take a nap in a heavy rainfall. That is usually an awesome experience.

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