Kepa Arrizabalaga He is very close to being a new player of real Madrid. The white club and the Chelsea Negotiations are being finalized for the Basque goalkeeper to come to the Santiago Bernabéu on loan for this season, without the option to buy, and the deal could become official this weekend.
The serious damage of Courtoiswho tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in practice Thursday and was mostly dry throughout the course, forced the real Madrid to go to the transfer market in search of a guarantee goalkeeper and the chosen one has been kep. The agreement between the football player and the Chamartín entity is complete and only a few small edges are missing in Chelsea so that his coming will be crystal.
At first the favorite of the leaders and the coaching staff was Yassine Bono, but the dispute over the African Cup, which will force him to miss up to 13 games in January, and the demands of Sevillas put the operation on hold. In dey and Mamardashvili also ruled, Madrid was launched for Kepa. The Basque goalkeeper will initially be the starter ahead of Lunin, whose evolution and level do not offer guarantees to the coaching staff to assume ownership of the white goal.
In fact, the real Madrid he made a brief foray and interfered with Bayern Munich’s plans. The Bavarians wanted the Chelsea goalkeeper to replace the also injured Neuer, but the footballer preferred to return to Spain despite having had several contacts with the Germans.
He was close to whitewash in 2018 but Zidane avoided it
The former Ahletic player was close to arriving in Madrid in the 2017/18 season but Zinedine Zidane, then the white coach, stopped his arrival at the last moment because he trusted Keylor Navas. In August 2018, Chelsea paid the club’s release clause of 80 million euros, making Kepa the most expensive goalkeeper in history.
Source: La Verdad

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