{"id":37284,"date":"2025-07-31T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37284\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:43:08","slug":"rob-holding-crystal-palace-defender-departs-for-major-league-soccer-side-colorado-rapids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37284\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Holding: Crystal Palace defender departs for Major League Soccer side Colorado Rapids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/crystal-palace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Crystal Palace;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Crystal Palace<\/a> have confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/rob-holding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rob Holding;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rob Holding<\/a> has left the club, with the Englishman set to complete a move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/colorado-rapids\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Colorado Rapids;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Colorado Rapids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Standard Sport understands Holding underwent a medical on Wednesday ahead of his free transfer to the American club.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Holding\u2019s two-year stay at Palace will ultimately be remembered as a failed mission, with the defender making just one first-team appearance and struggling with injury setbacks as well as falling out of favour with manager Oliver Glasner.<\/p>\n<p>The next stage of his career sees the 29-year-old relocate to Denver to join the MLS team who are members of the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Holding joined Palace in September 2023 from London rivals Arsenal, where he had played since his 2016 move from Bolton Wanderers.<\/p>\n<p>He spent the second half of last season on loan in the Championship with promotion challengers Sheffield United, for whom he made 12 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A club statement from Palace on Thursday afternoon confirmed his exit but made no mention of his impending move to the Rapids, who, like Arsenal, are owned by Stan Kroenke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club wishes Rob well for his future career,\u201d the statement from Palace read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace have confirmed that Rob Holding has left the club, with the Englishman set to complete a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[498,49,48,16521,27428,27433,27432,27429,27431,561,82,27430],"class_list":{"0":"post-37284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-colorado-rapids","12":"tag-crystal-palace","13":"tag-free-transfer","14":"tag-oliver-glasner","15":"tag-rob-holding","16":"tag-sheffield-united","17":"tag-soccer","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-standard-sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}