Arsenal news: David Raya reveals dream destination, ‘in the future, I could play there’

After 3 consecutive seasons arsenic runners-up, Arsenal yet ended their 22-year hold for a Premier League rubric successful 2025-26.

The antheral who made the quality successful Mikel Arteta’s broadside was David Raya, who won the Golden Glove for keeping 19 cleanable sheets. In the signifier of his career, the Spanish goalkeeper has shared his plans for the future.

Raya unfastened to a aboriginal La Liga move

In an interrogation with Marca, Raya was asked astir playing successful Spain, fixed that helium turned nonrecreational successful English shot astatine the property of 16, erstwhile helium joined Blackburn. Having ne'er played for a nine successful his homeland, the 31-year-old goalkeeper said helium wants to play successful La Liga earlier helium retires.

‘I would emotion to effort La Liga. For now, I americium precise blessed here, but I would similar to effort the Spanish league, which is precise competitive. Maybe, successful the future, I could play for a Spanish club. I americium Spanish and I would emotion to play there, definitely,’ Raya admitted.

The writer adjacent joked with the fig 1 by saying that helium ‘looked bully successful white’, arsenic helium was wearing a garment of that colour, an allusion to Real Madrid, to which Raya responded with a laugh.

Signed connected indebtedness successful 2023-24 and permanently from Brentford the pursuing season, Raya has established himself arsenic an undisputed starter astatine Arsenal, with whom helium has a declaration until June 2028.

Raya enjoying the champion spell of his vocation astatine Arsenal but laments World Cup reserve role

As good arsenic his important saves successful the league, the Spanish goalkeeper besides led Arsenal done their tally to the Champions League final.

Despite the ‘sadness’ of losing the rubric to Paris Saint-Germain connected penalties, Raya stressed however fulfilling it was to realise his imagination of playing successful a last of Uefa’s flagship competition, insisting that the purpose is to triumph it successful 2026-27.

Nominated for the champion goalkeeper grant astatine the 2026 Ballon d’Or, the Arsenal stopper believes his performances implicit the past play enactment him among the favourites astatine the ceremonial to beryllium held adjacent Monday (26) successful London. However, Raya admits that his relation arsenic a reserve for Spain astatine the World Cup is apt to number against him.

Before Spain’s World Cup run successful North America, determination was a large statement implicit the goalkeeper position, owed to the emergence of not lone the Arsenal goalkeeper but besides Joan Garcia astatine Barcelona. However, Luis de la Fuente kept the relation successful the hands of Unai Simon, who was besides the starter successful the Euro 2024 triumph.

‘I deliberation I had a cleanable year. Maybe the lone happening I lacked was playing astatine the World Cup. It was my champion play arsenic a professional, being decisive and lifting trophies,’ Raya concluded.