{"id":15950,"date":"2025-08-26T08:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=631347"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:13:04","slug":"lucas-vazquez-set-to-join-bayer-leverkusen-as-a-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/lucas-vazquez-set-to-join-bayer-leverkusen-as-a-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas V\u00e1zquez set to join Bayer Leverkusen as a free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas V\u00e1zquez who left Real Madrid this summer has agreed to join Bayer Leverkusen as a free agent. The player decided to leave the club as he was looking for some new opportunities in the market. Bayer felt the need of a good full-back and new manager Ten Hag had no issues in bringing in the former Real Madrid\u2019s man.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish utility man Lucas V\u00e1zquez has completed a move to Bayer Leverkusen this summer after leaving Real Madrid on a free transfer. The 33-year-old, who spent his entire professional career with Los Blancos, opted to seek fresh opportunities in Europe and found his next destination in the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e1zquez, known for his versatility as both a winger and a full-back, felt it was the right time to embrace a new challenge after a decorated spell in Madrid. Bayer Leverkusen, meanwhile, identified the need for a reliable option at full-back, and new manager Erik ten Hag quickly gave the green light to the signing.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard\u2019s wealth of experience, leadership, and winning mentality are expected to add depth and balance to Leverkusen\u2019s squad as they continue building under Ten Hag\u2019s project. For V\u00e1zquez, it marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter away from the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u, where he won multiple La Liga and Champions League titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas V\u00e1zquez who left Real Madrid this summer has agreed to join Bayer Leverkusen as a free agent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":35789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[423,344,3686,3257,1823,3796,2573,3809,266,4029],"class_list":["post-15950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-bayer-leverkusen","tag-bundesliga","tag-david-ornstein","tag-erik-ten-hag","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-football-transfers","tag-lucas-vazquez","tag-real-madrid","tag-summer-transfer-window-for"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}