When moving to Arsenal, Kepa Arrizabalaga continued the tradition of reaching out from the outstanding players, not used at Chelsea to become a high quality product, which was craving for Arsenal neighbors. Before he were Petr Cech, Jorginho, Kai Harvertz, David Luiz, Willian, Raheem Sterling …
The road from Stamford Bridge to Emirates is becoming one of the most common routes in the Premier League. The latest player is Kepa Arrizabalaga, who joined Arsenal from Chelsea with a £ 5 million agreement.
In the last 7 seasons, up to 6 seasons people witnessed Arsenal buy a Chelsea player. Since the summer of 2019, Arsenal has paid up to £ 90 million in the transfer fee to the neighbor in West London. Why is this constantly happening? Of course, each case is different, but there are elements that connect them.
Firstlyobviously the house. The transfer from Chelsea to Arsenal did not disturb the place of settlement for players and families because the two clubs were in London. This is the biggest advantage that the players cannot ignore when calculating the color change.
Most players who have moved from Chelsea to Arsenal in recent years are at the end of their career. The average age of these players is over 30. In most cases, the players are married, living happily and stable in London.
The second basic element Arsenal is one of the few clubs capable of responding, or even increasing the old salary at Chelsea. For example, Willian and David Luiz hardly be able to be able to pay the salary by Arsenal as well as Chelsea when they moved here at the age of 32.
Willian and Luiz also have a very important “Brazilian blood” connection to Arsenal's sports director Edu. Jorginho, a player born in Brazil, has been cared for by Mikel Arteta for a long time. Arsenal's coach tried to buy Jorginho for Man City when he was a assistant of Pep Guardiola.
In the case of Havertz, Arsenal benefited from strategic changes at Chelsea after Todd Boehly – Clearlake Capital takes over the club. Chelsea need to sell to have room for rookie and they also want to reduce the salary fund. And Havertz is getting a very high salary at Stamford Bridge.
The move to lend Sterling in the summer of 2024 is also aimed at reducing wages when the time of the financial balance report is coming. It is a trick to avoid, because Arsenal only pays a small percentage of winger's salary. Chelsea only wants sterling from the book declaration.
The recruitment of Kepa is another meaningful move to both sides. Chelsea has many goalkeepers and this is the last chance for them to earn a little benefit from this player, who used to be the most expensive goalkeeper in the world but completely failed at Chelsea and only 1 year in the contract.
The bigger question here is why Kepa (30 years old) likes to move to a club that you will not be the No. 1 goalkeeper? In Arsenal's point of view, Kepa is an experienced goalkeeper, understanding the tournament and will promote David Raya to win a place in the starting lineup.
With the price of 5 million pounds, this deal does not affect the summer budget of the club. Arsenal's previous goal is Joan Garcia, who moved from Espanyol to Barca for more than 20 million pounds. However, the logical logic behind a transfer of the transfer will not guarantee it will succeed.
