Kepa Arrizabalaga has told us he wants to leave Arsenal this summer, according to TEAMtalk's Graeme Bailey, with the goalkeeper keen to find regular first-team football after a season as David Raya's understudy.

Kepa joined us from Chelsea for a fee in the region of £5 million last summer, following a loan spell at Bournemouth, on a deal that runs for two more years. He made 12 appearances across all competitions in 2025-26, including a single Premier League start on the final day of the season, and kept four clean sheets. Raya's ever-present form meant Kepa's role never extended much beyond domestic cup football and the Champions League.

Bailey reports that Juventus and Napoli are among the Serie A clubs showing concrete interest, with both prepared to offer a fee that would represent a profit on what we paid for him twelve months ago. Sky Sports adds that we are already assessing the market for a replacement, with free agent Illan Meslier, released by Leeds United this summer, the most frequently linked name, alongside Yann Sommer and Manchester City's Stefan Ortega as alternatives.

Raya's status is not in question. He won a third consecutive Golden Glove last season, with 19 clean sheets, and remains undisputed as our number one. Kepa's exit would instead hand Andrea Berta a smaller but still meaningful decision this summer: find a deputy calm enough on the ball and experienced enough to step in without disrupting our defensive structure, ideally without overpaying for a player who expects to be more than that.