{"id":862,"date":"2026-03-21T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=862"},"modified":"2026-03-21T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:36:57","slug":"david-raya-confesses-that-he-was-very-close-to-bayern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"David Raya confesses that he was very close&#8230; to Bayern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">Without a doubt one of the fashionable goalkeepers in Europe. And it&#8217;s Spanish. David Raya has just been <strong>summoned by Luis de la Fuente<\/strong> for the last break before the World Cup event. The Barcelonan is at his best being <strong>key piece of the Premier League leader<\/strong>Arteta&#8217;s Arsenal. But it might not have been that way.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">In an interview for <em><strong>Sky Sports<\/strong>,<\/em> The goalkeeper has confessed that, before joining the London team, he was very close to joining another big club.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"ue-c-article__media ue-c-article__media--video  video-player\"><figcaption class=\"ue-c-article__media-caption\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p><span class=\"ue-c-article__media-description\">Arsenal 2-0 Bayer Leverkusen Champions League Final<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;I was very close to going to another club before joining Arsenal<\/strong>&#8230;and luckily that didn&#8217;t happen, so Arsenal made the offer,&#8221; said the national team goalkeeper. Finally, David confessed that the club he played for <strong>about to join was Bayern Munich<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">How would it suit Kompany!<\/h2>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">One of the most bizarre situations that have occurred in football in recent weeks has been the one that has occurred in <strong>Bayern&#8217;s goal<\/strong>. <strong>All their goalkeepers were injured<\/strong> three days away from hosting Atalanta in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">If no one recovered, <strong>Prescott, 16-year-old youth goalkeeper<\/strong>should have debuted. Finally, <strong>Urbig ended up playing<\/strong> after overcoming a concussion that he himself suffered in the first leg against &#8216;La Dea&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without a doubt one of the fashionable goalkeepers in Europe. And it&#8217;s Spanish. David Raya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}