{"id":16504,"date":"2025-07-14T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mosquera-confirms-departure-from-valencia-next-destination-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:03:49","slug":"mosquera-confirms-departure-from-valencia-next-destination-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/mosquera-confirms-departure-from-valencia-next-destination-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquera confirms departure from Valencia: Next destination, Arsenal?"},"content":{"rendered":"Valencia defender Cristhian Mosquera is reportedly close to finalizing his transfer to Arsenal, according to recent reports.\n\nThe player appears to have confirmed his departure from Valencia, describing his imminent exit as the beginning of a &#8220;new era&#8221;.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Valencia is my home and always will be. I arrived when I was 12 years old and now I&#8217;m leaving as a grown man.<\/p><cite>Cristhian Mosquera<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nMosquera, 21 years old, has shared his feelings about this decision, admitting some sadness about leaving his footballing home behind.\n\nThe young Spanish footballer has expressed that, although he feels nostalgic, he understands that in football these decisions are common. Despite not specifying the club he is joining, Mosquera has described the situation as exciting and sad at the same time.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0626%2Fr1511509_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Cristhian Mosquera\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Cristhian Mosquera podr\u00eda estar cerca de unirse al Arsenal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nArsenal, looking to strengthen its defense, has shown interest in Mosquera to cover the positions of William Saliba and Gabriel.\n\nThe club has already secured the signings of Kepa Arrizabalaga, Christian N\u00f8rgaard, and Mart\u00edn Zubimendi this summer.\n\nIn addition, they are in negotiations to incorporate Viktor Gy\u00f6keres from Sporting Lisbon and Noni Madueke from Chelsea.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valencia defender Cristhian Mosquera is reportedly close to finalizing his transfer to Arsenal, according to recent reports. The player appears to have confirmed his departure from Valencia, describing his imminent exit as the beginning of a &#8220;new era&#8221;. Valencia is my home and always will be. I arrived when I was 12 years old and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[140,5199,221,2536],"class_list":{"0":"post-16504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-cristhian-mosquera","10":"tag-transfers","11":"tag-valencia"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504","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=16504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}