Kepa Arrizabalaga enters the list of players in the target of Real Madrid

DBasia.news –  Real Madrid are still eyeing David De Gea, Manchester United goalkeeper, to try to bring in the summer of 2019. However, Madrid has prepared an alternative plan if it can not get De Gea, which is targeting Kepa Arrizabalaga.

Keylor Navas was allegedly going to leave the Santiago Bernabeu because he was 32 years old. Madrid will look for a goalkeeper who can compete with the two goalkeepers believed to be reliable for the club next season, Thibaut Courtois and Andriy Lunin.

De Gea is a priority, but Man United has a price of more than £ 100 million and his salary demands are huge: £ 400,000 per week. The official price will burden Madrid financially.

As a result, as quoted from Teamtalk, Madrid again turned the game to a goalkeeper who had been hunted in the past, Kepa. The 24-year-old goalkeeper previously played at Athletic Bilbao 2016-2018.

Chelsea made it the second most expensive goalkeeper when he bought it at the start of this season for 72 million pounds from Bilbao. However, there is the possibility of the Blues returning to sell it in the player transfer market because Kepa had a problem with Maurizio Sarri, Chelsea manager.

Kepa refused to be replaced by Sarri when playing the League Cup final against Manchester City. Despite apologizing to Sarri and his teammate at Chelsea, the record shows Kepa’s attitude that has the potential to happen again in the future.

Madrid did not mind accommodating Kepa because he was still highly rated by the Spanish public. The price of £ 50 million was allegedly due to be issued by Madrid to give the first offer to Chelsea.

It was not difficult for Chelsea to sell Kepa because the sales funds could be spent on recruiting other goalkeepers such as Nick Pope, Jack Butland, Jan Oblak, Jordan Pickford, and other names.