{"id":13806,"date":"2025-07-01T18:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/kepa-joins-arsenal-e6-9m-signing-from-chelsea-key-reinforcement\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:30:24","slug":"kepa-joins-arsenal-e6-9m-signing-from-chelsea-key-reinforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/kepa-joins-arsenal-e6-9m-signing-from-chelsea-key-reinforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Kepa joins Arsenal: \u20ac6.9M signing from Chelsea, key reinforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"Arsenal have secured the signing of Kepa Arrizabalaga from Chelsea in a deal valued at \u00a35 million ($6.9 million), according to sources close to the club.\n\nKepa, 30 years old, becomes a key player for coach Mikel Arteta, who was looking to reinforce the position of substitute goalkeeper for David Raya.\n\nThe Spanish goalkeeper arrives at the London club after having spent the last two seasons on loan at Real Madrid and AFC Bournemouth, respectively.\n\nArsenal also showed interest in Joan Garc\u00eda, from Espanyol, but the 24-year-old player finally joined Barcelona.\n\n
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Kepa Arrizabalaga se une al Arsenal, siete a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de su llegada al Chelsea en un acuerdo r\u00e9cord.\nStuart MacFarlane\/Arsenal FC via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nThe Spanish goalkeeper has signed a three-year contract with the North London club, which includes a release clause.\n\nHe will wear bib number 13.\n\nDuring his loan spell at Bournemouth, Kepa kept a clean sheet in nine out of 35 matches, contributing to the team registering the sixth-best defense in the Premier League in the 2024-25 season.\n\nWill replace Neto at Arsenal, as the Brazilian goalkeeper returns to Bournemouth after his loan spell at the London club.\n\n

I am very, very happy to be here, very excited and looking forward to what’s coming.<\/p>Kepa Arrizabalaga<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

The ambition shown in this club, when I speak with Mikel [Arteta] and Inaki [Cana], how much they demonstrate their desire to win… I think we are very close to winning and, hopefully, together, we can achieve it.<\/p>Kepa Arrizabalaga<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

We are very happy to have Kepa with us. He is a player we know, as we have faced him many times in recent seasons. He brings a lot of experience, which his teammates will benefit from, and he has a great hunger to win.<\/p>Mikel Arteta, Arsenal coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

Kepa works hard and will raise our levels. I know he will fit in perfectly, he already knows some of his teammates, and we are very excited about his future with us.<\/p>Mikel Arteta, Arsenal coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nKepa arrived at Chelsea from Athletic Club in 2018 with a seven-year contract in an \u20ac80 million ($93 million) deal, which made him the most expensive goalkeeper in the world at that time.\n\nThe goalkeeper, who won the Champions League, the Europa League, the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup during his time at Stamford Bridge, said goodbye to Chelsea fans in an Instagram post.\n\n

Post Title<\/a><\/p>\n\nThe message said: “Thank you Chelsea. After seven unforgettable years, the time has come to close a very special chapter in my life. Chelsea was my home, my family, and the place where I grew as a footballer and as a person.”","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal have secured the signing of Kepa Arrizabalaga from Chelsea in a deal valued at \u00a35 million ($6.9 million), according to sources close to the club. Kepa, 30 years old, becomes a key player for coach Mikel Arteta, who was looking to reinforce the position of substitute goalkeeper for David Raya. The Spanish goalkeeper arrives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[140,220,3712,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-13806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-kepa-arrizabalaga","11":"tag-transfer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}