{"id":15034,"date":"2025-07-06T07:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/arsenal-signs-zubimendi-the-spanish-midfielder-arrives-from-real-sociedad\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T07:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:09:53","slug":"arsenal-signs-zubimendi-the-spanish-midfielder-arrives-from-real-sociedad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/arsenal-signs-zubimendi-the-spanish-midfielder-arrives-from-real-sociedad\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal signs Zubimendi: The Spanish midfielder arrives from Real Sociedad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Arsenal Secures Mart\u00edn Zubimendi: A Stellar Signing for the Midfield<\/h2>\n\n\nArsenal has finalized the signing of talented Spanish midfielder Mart\u00edn Zubimendi from Real Sociedad, as announced by the club.\n\nThe London club beat out competition from other major European teams by activating Zubimendi&#8217;s release clause, valued at 60 million euros (67 million dollars).\n\nThe 26-year-old player&#8217;s contract with Real Sociedad ended in June 2027.\n\nIt is reported that Real Madrid tried to sign Zubimendi when Xabi Alonso replaced Carlo Ancelotti in May, but the agreement with Arsenal had already been finalized in March.\n\nZubimendi had the opportunity to join the Premier League a year ago, being Liverpool&#8217;s first choice to reinforce the defensive midfield. However, he rejected the transfer, opting to remain at Real Sociedad for the 2024-25 season, a decision he later called &#8220;the right one&#8221;.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0512%2Fr1491585_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Mart\u00edn Zubimendi ha fichado por el Arsenal procedente de la Real Sociedad.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nMart\u00edn Zubimendi has signed for Arsenal from Real Sociedad. Juan Manuel Serrano Arce\/Getty Images\n\nZubimendi, a product of Real Sociedad&#8217;s youth academy, played five years with the first team, playing more than 170 matches in all competitions.\n\nThe player born in San Sebasti\u00e1n had aroused the interest of Real Madrid this summer after his outstanding performances in LaLiga and with Spain in the Eurocup 2024.\n\nIn the final against England, he came on at halftime in place of the injured Rodri and shone in the role of defensive midfielder, contributing to Spain&#8217;s 2-1 victory.\n\nManchester City also closely followed Zubimendi after Rodri suffered a serious knee injury in September.\n\nIt is believed that Mikel Arteta played a key role in the conversations with Zubimendi to convince the player to join Arsenal this summer.\n\nZubimendi will join his former Real Sociedad teammate, Mikel Merino, who signed for the club last summer.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal Secures Mart\u00edn Zubimendi: A Stellar Signing for the Midfield Arsenal has finalized the signing of talented Spanish midfielder Mart\u00edn Zubimendi from Real Sociedad, as announced by the club. The London club beat out competition from other major European teams by activating Zubimendi&#8217;s release clause, valued at 60 million euros (67 million dollars). The 26-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[140,5424,5425,1619],"class_list":{"0":"post-15034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-martin-zubimendi","10":"tag-real-sociedad","11":"tag-signing"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15034","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=15034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}