Any player who sides with Xhaka rather than the fans can follow Xhaka to his midtable Bundersliga club, where he belongs. Rather than blame the fans perhaps the players should be asking themselves why Mr Hold The House Keys Xhaka needs to be protected as some precious snowflake, and whether he actually is a good role model for the players of a big club.
Except you're forgetting players are human and not automatons. They use social media, they check out what fans think of them and they react to constant negativity in the same way as we would. Hell if I got booed every time I went to the office I know how I'd react.
Need to remember they would have known about the abuse he and his wife were getting online. Not to mention by all accounts he was always the one trying to rally the team behind the scenes after a poor performance so when he was getting booed obviously were shocked and disgusted by it.
We complain when there is no team spirit or bond and then complain when players do actually support their teammates. It's ridiculous.
Fans who supposedly are meant to roar on their own proved themselves at their loudest when booing. It's depressing.
They call others snowflakes for complaining and that they should man-up and perform while they themselves spend vast amounts of time on social media....complaining.
The supreme irony was when Xhaka reacted comparatively mildly to the booing and the abuse... and the ones booing got offended. Now if that isn't the very definition of a snowflake..
I've been an Arsenal fan for over 30 years but even I think some of our fans should have their Internet access cut and forbidden from setting foot outside their house on match days. They're fair weather fans, quick to support (quietly!) when we're doing well and quick to savage players (loudly!) when we lose.
If you were a player either playing for the club or a player considering joining the club, the toxic atmosphere contributed to by some fans is hardly going to convince you to take a chance on us. I mean that's hardly rocket science....