Lucas Vazquez has joined Bayer Leverkusen on a free transfer following his departure from Real Madrid.<\/p>\n
The right-back left Madrid after the end of their Club World Cup campaign and has now signed a two-year deal with Leverkusen.<\/p>\n
Vazquez spent his entire career with Los Blancos, outside of a season-long loan to Espanyol in 2014-15.<\/p>\n
He made 402 appearances for Madrid in all competitions, scoring 38 goals and registering 59 assists.<\/p>\n
Vazquez also won 23 trophies during his time in the Spanish capital, including four LaLiga titles, five Champions Leagues, three Club World Cup titles and three UEFA Super Cups.<\/p>\n
“Now I’m looking forward to continuing my career at Bayer Leverkusen,” Vazquez said. “I’ve heard a lot about the club from Xabi Alonso and my long-standing teammate Dani Carvajal in Madrid.<\/p>\n
“My discussions with the management confirmed what I’ve been told: Bayer 04 are absolutely focused on winning, are hungry, and they are aiming for the biggest targets.<\/p>\n
“That mindset coincides with my ideas, and I’m looking forward to striving for more success at Leverkusen.”<\/p>\n
Vazquez could make his Leverkusen debut on Saturday against Werder Bremen as Erik ten Hag’s side look to bounce back from an opening-day defeat to Hoffenheim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucas Vazquez has joined Bayer Leverkusen on a free transfer following his departure from Real Madrid. The right-back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-112283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}