Kepa Arrizabalaga open to Athletic Bilbao return
October 11, 2019 02:46 MYT
Kepa Arrizabalaga claims he would like to return to Athletic Bilbao one day.
The Spain international left the Basque club in 2018 to join Chelsea, which ended a 14-year spell with the club after he joined the youth ranks of at age nine.
Kepa, 25, commanded a record transfer fee for a goalkeeper at the time, and has since become first choice goalkeeper for Spain head coach Robert Moreno, but admits a return to the Rojiblancos is a possibility.
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Kepa eventually re-signed with Bilbao in that window with the intention of staying at the club, before departing to Chelsea the following summer.
"For several months my grandma saw more of me in the newspapers than in the flesh," he said.
"There was a lot of talk about me. I was also injured for a while so it wasn't a good moment for me.