{"id":455159,"date":"2023-08-14T15:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455159"},"modified":"2023-08-14T15:45:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:45:20","slug":"real-madrid-acquire-kepa-on-loan-from-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/real-madrid-acquire-kepa-on-loan-from-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid acquire Kepa on loan from Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid have signed Kepa Arrizabalaga on a one-year loan deal from Chelsea.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Real Madrid have announced the season-long<br \/>loan signing of Kepa Arrizabalaga from Chelsea! \u270d\ufe0f\ud83e\udde4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bL3JUyDe1G\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bL3JUyDe1G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1691017813916323840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard is expected to take Thibaut Courtois&#8217; place, who will miss the majority of the season after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury.<\/p>\n<p>Kepa joined Chelsea back in 2018 from Athletic Bilbao in for 80 million euros &#8211; a record-breaking transfer fee for a goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>He has made 163 appearances for the Blues, winning the Europa League and the Champions League with them.<\/p>\n<p>However, Kepa was made second-choice goalkeeper during Thomas Tuchel reign after Edouard Mendy, who left for Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, the 28-year-old faced a new challenger in the face of new signing Robert Sanchez, who started the opening game against Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid have signed Kepa Arrizabalaga on a one-year loan deal from Chelsea. Real Madrid have announced the season-longloan signing of Kepa Arrizabalaga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":455160,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,20896,17375],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[17902,20897,327],"acf":{"announce":"Los Blancos have found a replacement for Courtois, who suffered from ACL torn","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455159"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455159"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}