{"id":159421,"date":"2019-10-11T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=159421"},"modified":"2019-10-11T15:22:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:22:02","slug":"epl-chelsea-keeper-kepa-admits-he-wants-to-return-to-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=159421","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Chelsea keeper, Kepa admits he wants to return to Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chelsea goalkeeper, Kepa Arrizabalaga, claims he would like to return to Athletic Club one day.<\/p>\n

The Spain international left the Basque club in 2018 to join Chelsea, which ended a 14-year spell with the side he joined at nine.<\/p>\n

Kepa commanded a record transfer fee for a goalkeeper at the time, and has since become first choice for both Chelsea and Spain.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I would like to return to Athletic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know when or how or what, but playing at Athletic obviously I\u2019d like that. I have great memories,\u201d Kepa told Spanish football show, El Chiringuito.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old also reflected on the heavy speculation, that saw him come close to joining Real Madrid in January 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor several months my grandma saw more of me in the newspapers than in the flesh.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a lot of talk about me. I was also injured for a while so it wasn\u2019t a good moment for me. My contract was due to expire and from January onwards I was able to start talking to other clubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t see myself joining [another] club. I ended up renewing my contract with the idea of staying, but six months later I left. That was the only contraction,\u201d Kepa added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea goalkeeper, Kepa Arrizabalaga, claims he would like to return to Athletic Club one day. The Spain international left the Basque club in 2018 to join Chelsea, which ended a 14-year spell with the side he joined at nine. Kepa commanded a record transfer fee for a goalkeeper at the time, and has since become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,1397,10949],"class_list":["post-159421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-chelsea","tag-kepa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}