Summer 2018. Chelsea is presented with the termination clause of 80 million euros and Kepa Arrizabalaga change Bilbao by London several months after having renewed with the Athletic and after a flirtation with him Real Madrid. The goalkeeper has reviewed this experience and many others of his sports career in a letter in The Players Tribune. Everything from a personal perspective. “It is time for you to meet me,” the letter is titled.
It was an “unexpected” offer, as the author himself describes it. Kepa: “At first I didn't think much about it because it had a clause of 80 million and the Athletic I was not going to negotiate. He had never done it with the departures of important players such as Javi martinez, Llorente or Herrera”. It is true that he was “very happy that a club with the history and potential of Chelsea”Will be interested in your services. “But I didn't think it was going to happen,” he adds.
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However, since Stamford Bridge they bet heavily on the rojiblanco youth squad. “A few days later my agent said that the Chelsea he had offered a very high figure, practically the entire clause. And it was like ‘hostile, it seems they really love me’. When they informed us that they were willing to pay the clause, I was again faced with an important decision, ”explains the man from Ondarroa.
He acknowledges that he spent “a few days thinking” what to do. “It was a great responsibility, but it was also a huge compliment that a club like him Chelsea made an important bet for me “, he assures Kepa. He accepted and packed his bags. Let Bilbao and went to London: “I'm very happy I said 'go for it.' The most difficult decisions are the ones that make us grow ”.