{"id":30769,"date":"2025-07-01T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/30769\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:34:08","slug":"arsenal-sign-kepa-gunners-announce-capture-of-goalkeeper-from-chelsea-as-mikel-arteta-reshapes-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/30769\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal sign Kepa! Gunners announce capture of goalkeeper from Chelsea as Mikel Arteta reshapes squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\" class=\"article_teaser__rjxUK\">Arsenal have finalised the signing of goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga from Chelsea after activating a \u00a35 million ($7m) release clause in his contract. This transfer marks the end of Arrizabalaga\u2019s seven-year spell at Chelsea, during which he made 163 appearances and secured four major trophies. His initial switch to the Blues in 2018 from Athletic Club for \u00a372m ($99m) still stands as the most expensive transfer ever for a goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\">Article continues below<\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\">Article continues below<\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\">Article continues below<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arsenal sign Arrizabalaga<\/li>\n<li>The Gunners add competition for Raya<\/li>\n<li>Spaniard ready to fight for his place<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal have finalised the signing of goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga from Chelsea after activating a \u00a35 million ($7m) release&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[5407,461,26185,26186,220,221,62,18066,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-30769","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-k-arrizabalaga","11":"tag-m-arteta","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-transfers","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114779892425758824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}