Granit Xhaka is close to joining Arsenal on a £25 million signing from Borussia Monchengladbach.

Xhaka will take a medical in London.

Gladbach had hoped to raise as much as £35 million through the sale of the 23-year-old midfielder.

Xhaka had indicated he wanted his future clarified before the European Championship finals.

Ottmar Hitzfeld has compared Xhaka to Bastian Schweinsteiger.