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"As your captain, I can promise you, this is just the beginning and we want more."
Of all the cheers heard at the Stadium of Light on Sunday, those words from Granit Xhaka to the crowd after the game probably garnered the loudest.
To many, Xhaka embodies the determined attitude Sunderland has shown to silence this season's nay-sayers who had them down for instant relegation.
It is a narrative that has always come from his lips.
He told a season-opening press conference "we're not just here to make up the numbers"..