{"id":31460,"date":"2025-06-24T21:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kepa-arrizabalaga-arsenal-set-to-sign-chelsea-goalkeeper\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T21:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:11:38","slug":"kepa-arrizabalaga-arsenal-set-to-sign-chelsea-goalkeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/kepa-arrizabalaga-arsenal-set-to-sign-chelsea-goalkeeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Kepa Arrizabalaga: Arsenal set to sign Chelsea goalkeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Arsenal are set to complete the signing of Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga this week. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old has a \u00a35m release clause after adding an extra year to his contract last summer before a successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx2l4l1ymjxo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">loan spell at Bournemouth<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Spain international will soon join Arsenal to compete with compatriot David Raya for the starting spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal needed a new number two goalkeeper after opting against signing Neto, who spent last season on loan at Emirates Stadium from Bournemouth, on a permanent basis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kepa remains the world&#8217;s most expensive goalkeeper since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/45120514\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">joining Chelsea in 2018<\/a> for \u00a372m from boyhood club Athletic Bilbao.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played 163 times for Chelsea, winning four major honours during a mixed seven-year spell at Stamford Bridge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also spent a season on loan at Real Madrid and won La Liga and the Champions League during the 2023-24 season. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp90x3y4037o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal are set to complete the signing of Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga this week. The 30-year-old has a \u00a35m release clause after adding an extra year to his contract last summer before a successful loan spell at Bournemouth. The former Spain international will soon join Arsenal to compete with compatriot David Raya for the starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31462,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31460\/revisions\/31462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}