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Player Rating No.99: The most expensive goalkeeper - Kepa Arrizabalaga

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Hello everyone, welcome to - Daily Player Rating! You could be the judge and rate one player every day at 10:30 CET. The results will be declared in the form of Fut Card tomorrow. We released the rating of Marco Verratti yesterday. He got 85 total points with highest 94 in passing. The detailed results are as follows:

Now let's welcome the No.99 guest in our ratings - Kepa Arrizabalaga!

Cast your vote from 6 dimensions - GK Diving, Reflexes, Handling, Speed, Kicking and Positioning ( 5 is the highest and 1 is the lowest ). The Final points = Total points of 6 dimensions /6 * 20.

Reminder: Ratings could be changed according to the positions in the field (like shot for strikers and save for goalkeepers).

Kepa Arrizabalaga is a Spanish professional footballer who plays mainly as a goalkeeper(sometimes as a manager) for Premier League club Chelsea. His €80 million transfer fee made him the most expensive goalkeeper in the world.

Born in Ondarroa, Biscay, Basque Country, Arrizabalaga joined Athletic Bilbao's youth setup at Lezama in 2004, aged ten. He played his first professional games on loan at Ponferradina and Real Valladolid, in Segunda División. He then returned to his first club, going on to appear in 54 matches across all competitions.

On 8 August 2018, Athletic Bilbao announced on their website that Arrizabalaga had paid his required release clause (€80 million / £71.6 million), making him the world's most expensive goalkeeper only weeks after the record was set by Alisson's transfer to Liverpool. On 24 February 2019, during the 2019 EFL Cup Final against Man City, Kepa refused to be substituted off for Willy Caballero for the upcoming penalty shootout which led to his famous conflict with Sarri.

Kepa won the 2012 European Championship with Spain's under-19 team and made his senior debut in 2017, being selected for the 2018 World Cup. He has just earned 3 caps for senior team so far as De Gee remains the first choice for Spain.

The famous conflict between Kepa and Sarri:

And here are some fantastic saves for Kepa:

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