{"id":626616,"date":"2023-08-16T07:53:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T11:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=626616"},"modified":"2023-08-16T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T11:53:14","slug":"kepa-arrizabalaga-joins-real-madrid-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/16\/kepa-arrizabalaga-joins-real-madrid-on-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Official, Confirmed\u2019: \u2018Record-Breaking\u2019 Goalkeeper Joins Real Madrid on a Season-Long Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1691013344478498816\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>, Kepa Arrizabalaga has joined Real Madrid on a season-long loan from Chelsea. The transfer journalist has noted that the 28-year-old goalkeeper will join Los Blancos with a &#8220;no option to buy clause\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Real Madrid Replace Injured Star With Kepa Arrizabalaga<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Official, confirmed. Kepa joins Real Madrid on loan deal from Chelsea \u2014 no buy option clause. \u26aa\ufe0f\ud83e\udd1d\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RealMadrid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RealMadrid<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Jiekei3Re\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/3Jiekei3Re<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1691013344478498816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Kepa Arrizabalaga Gets a Second Chance<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The stars aligned for both parties as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/miguelitocope\/status\/1689604799967195137\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thibaut Courtois<\/a> suffered an unfortunate ACL injury ruling him out for most of the upcoming campaign. With <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1687743611520073728\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Sanchez<\/a> joining Chelsea, it seemed like Kepa&#8217;s time at Stamford Bridge was all but done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/14\/deivid-washington-chelsea-hwg\/\" target=\"_self\">Romano Drops Chelsea Update as Blues Set to Sign Another Player<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u00a372 million man became used to playing second fiddle as he was replaced by Edouard Mendy for a period of time in West London. It seemed as though he was set to drop back down the pecking order as Sanchez started Chelsea\u2019s opening game of the season when they hosted Liverpool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are no doubts he will be the European giant&#8217;s number one now in the absence of the veteran Belgian.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:\u00a0<\/strong>How Liverpool and Chelsea Are Destroying the Transfer Market<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Liverpool and Chelsea are DESTROYING the Transfer Market\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jQaiRguMTGY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>A Much Needed Reset?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since arriving for a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/matt_law_dt\/status\/1027309819739426816?s=46&amp;t=bxY0Mw3iYp-NS8qAYw18Rg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">record-breaking fee<\/a> from Athletic Bilbao in 2018, the Spaniard has made 109 league appearances keeping 35 clean sheets. On the surface the stats seem fantastic however things were never plain sailing for him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FA Cup controversy and suspect goalkeeping kept the 28-year-old in the limelight through his time in England and maybe a stint away in Spain will help his confidence and ability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/13\/chelsea-consider-kasper-schmeichel-move\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Player Now Set for Shock Exit \u2013 \u2018Brilliant\u2019 65k P\/W Player Lined Up as Replacement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the shot-stopper returns to La Liga once again, he would be hoping that his performances improve, so that he can continue being the main man in the future as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Featured Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8r1ght\/6283536615\/in\/photolist-azfLwc-6fSWMq-2jEQ79Q-2jETx8Q-azipUW-azioCE-843J9X-24GH6EF-2jEQ7vw-68btbV-XcZvwv-68fEVf-a23vPj-KbETB4-4BNp8V-2jCLXmL-2jETwQv-8TXEAh-ze8CZU-2jCHtC2-28QDnNi-8JYL8c-7cvc13-2jCM1ts-d3RiMQ-67727j-dC5W8q-bHeCfB-nLWAf-95N939-2jCHudq-dhQyHy-buv77o-c2fWxb-7crsYR-2jCHqZS-4r3Zqc-bb8DJB-7Qt6eT-qrEe2D-6771XN-c2gd4b-GWgoq-2nJF5Bf-2jCHpYt-nLWku-K6f815-cN4Riq-4L2o1U-8nKAkm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fabrizio Romano, Kepa Arrizabalaga has joined Real Madrid on a season-long loan from Chelsea. The transfer journalist has noted that the 28-year-old goalkeeper will join Los Blancos with a &#8220;no option to buy clause\u201d.\u00a0 Real Madrid Replace Injured Star With Kepa Arrizabalaga Official, confirmed. Kepa joins Real Madrid on loan deal from Chelsea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4778,"featured_media":625126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,1366,28],"tags":[1407,2578],"class_list":["post-626616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-premier-league","category-real-madrid","category-transfers","tag-chelsea-transfers","tag-kepa-arrizabalaga"],"modified_by":"Delight Wellington","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}