{"id":905,"date":"2025-08-27T17:17:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=905"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:17:43","slug":"official-leverkusen-sign-former-real-madrid-player-lucas-vazquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/official-leverkusen-sign-former-real-madrid-player-lucas-vazquez\/","title":{"rendered":"OFFICIAL: Leverkusen sign former Real Madrid player Lucas Vazquez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-41-1024x731.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-41-1024x731.png 1024w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-41-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-41-768x548.png 768w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-41.png 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Real Madrid versatile player Lucas Vazquez has joined Bayer Leverkusen until 2027, the German club announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five-time Champions League winner joins on a free transfer, having been a free agent since his Madrid contract expired in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 34-year-old completed a medical in Madrid and is in line to play in Leverkusen&#8217;s next match, away at Werder Bremen on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Vazquez said he was &#8220;looking forward to continuing my career at Leverkusen&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vazquez revealed former Leverkusen coach and current Real manager Xabi Alonso and one-time Leverkusen player Dani Carvajal, who is now at Madrid, helped convince him to join the German side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;With Lucas Vazquez we are signing an extremely experienced player who has won everything there was to win with Real Madrid over the past ten years,&#8221; said Leverkusen sporting director Simon Rolfes, adding the newcomer would become &#8220;a pillar&#8221; of the side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leverkusen were looking for a right-back after Jeremie Frimpong&#8217;s move to Liverpool at the end of last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other than a short stint at Espanyol, Vazquez spent his entire career with Real Madrid, winning four La Liga titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trent Alexander-Arnold&#8217;s arrival at Real meant Vazquez fell lower in the pecking order at right back, but the nine-time capped Spanish player wanted to continue his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unbeaten domestic double winners two seasons ago, Leverkusen have undergone a complete rebuild this summer, with several key players leaving the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florian Wirtz, Granit Xhaka and Frimpong have all left for the Premier League, Jonathan Tah joined league rivals Bayern Munich and coach Xabi Alonso moved to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Real Madrid versatile player Lucas Vazquez has joined Bayer Leverkusen until 2027, the German club announced on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}