Chelsea board response to Kepa’s latest harshly comments on Chelsea project ‘I can’t believe this’
Kepa Arrizabalaga revealed he left Chelsea this summer after growing disillusioned with Todd Boehly’s ‘project’ as he felt he needed a change of scenery.
The Spaniard joined Real Madrid on loan last month, with Los Blancos needing to replace Thibaut Courtois after the Belgian ruptured his ACL.
Speaking to Spanish radio COPE, Kepa delivered a thinly-veiled criticism of Boehly’s spending spree and admitted he did not have to think twice about leaving Chelsea.
‘I felt it was time for a change of scenery,’ he said
‘I wanted to stay, but I felt that the project was not the right one.’
The blues paid a whooping £72m to sign Kepa from Athletic Bilbao in 2018 – the highest sum ever paid for a goalkeeper – but spent £25m to bring in Robert Sanchez from Brighton this summer.
Kepa explained Pochettino wanted him to stay after allowing Edouard Mendy to leave Stamford Bridge, but the Spaniard felt he needed a change.
‘Yes, it was very fast [move to Real Madrid],’ he told Marca.
‘It’s true that Pochettino wanted me to stay and he told me that I was going to play, that he trusted me, but I thought that a change would be good for me, I wanted a change.
However, Kepa Arizabalaga might have probably played his last game for Chelsea as the board were left furious on the Spaniard comment on Chelsea project