{"id":762640,"date":"2026-06-27T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762640\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T00:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:18:13","slug":"football-gossip-lacroix-nmecha-araujo-greenwood-ter-stegen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762640\/","title":{"rendered":"Football gossip: Lacroix, Nmecha, Araujo, Greenwood, Ter Stegen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea<\/a> close in on Crystal Palace<\/a> centre-back Maxence Lacroix, Newcastle United<\/a> add Borussia Dortmund midfielder Felix Nmecha to their shortlist, while three Premier League clubs are chasing Uruguay left-back Maxi Araujo.<\/p>\n

Crystal Palace<\/a> centre-back Maxence Lacroix, 26, is expected to complete a move to Chelsea<\/a> for about 55m euros (\u00a347.4m) after playing for France at the World Cup. (L’Equipe – in French)<\/a><\/p>\n

Newcastle United<\/a> have added Borussia Dortmund’s Germany midfielder Felix Nmecha, 25, to their shortlist for this summer. (Mail), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/a> have had a \u00a355m offer for Brazil midfielder Bruno Guimaraes, 28, rejected by Newcastle<\/a>. (ESPN), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Tottenham<\/a> boss Roberto de Zerbi wants Czech goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky, 23, to be his new starter in goal and Spurs are willing to sell Italy keeper Guglielmo Vicario, 29. (Teamtalk), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Manchester United<\/a> and Chelsea<\/a> have joined Arsenal<\/a> in the race to sign Uruguay left-back Maxi Araujo, 26, from Sporting. (Record – in Portuguese), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Italy right-back Marco Palestra, 21, is set to complete his move from Atalanta to Chelsea<\/a> after having a medical in London. (Football Italia), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Marseille’s Mason Greenwood wants to join Roma, rather than Fenerbahce or Al-Hilal, with the Italian club set to offer up to 50m euros (\u00a343.1m) for the former England striker, 24. (Corriere dello Sport – in Italian), external<\/a><\/p>\n

AC Milan have agreed a club-record deal to sign Goncalo Ramos from Paris St-Germain and the Portugal striker, 25, has already undergone a medical. (Gazzetta dello Sport – in Italian), external<\/a> <\/p>\n

MLS side Atlanta United has inquired about the availability of Atletico Madrid’s Spain midfielder Koke, 34. (Marca – in Spanish), external<\/a><\/p>\n

Ajax are interested in signing Germany goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, 34, from Barcelona. (Mundo Deportivo – in Spanish), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea close in on Crystal Palace centre-back Maxence Lacroix, Newcastle United add Borussia Dortmund midfielder Felix Nmecha to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-762640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}