{"id":814778,"date":"2026-07-20T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814778\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:30:10","slug":"chelsea-step-up-interest-in-crystal-palaces-lacroix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814778\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea step up interest in Crystal Palace’s Lacroix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea<\/a> have accelerated their interest in defender Maxence Lacroix after a fresh round of talks with Crystal Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The proposed deal is being handled by the ownership of both clubs, with the latest discussions described as positive.<\/p>\n

Palace have been keen to offer Lacroix – who has three years to run on his existing deal – a new contract, but the player is keen for a new challenge.<\/p>\n

It is understood The Eagles want a deal worth a minimum \u00a360m for the 26-year-old and have started looking at potential replacements, with Ausburg’s Chrislain Matsima among the players monitored.<\/p>\n

Lacroix has made 98 appearances for Palace since joining from Wolfsburg in a deal worth up to \u00a318m in August 2024.<\/p>\n

The centre-back, who played for France at the World Cup, has emerged as one of Chelsea’s key targets<\/a> this summer as the club look to sign players with Premier League experience.<\/p>\n

The west London club are also close to completing a \u00a3117m deal for Aston Villa attacker Morgan Rogers.<\/a><\/p>\n

If Chelsea<\/a>‘s move for Lacroix is successful, the future of Trevoh Chalobah, who has interest from Como, will come further into question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have accelerated their interest in defender Maxence Lacroix after a fresh round of talks with Crystal Palace.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-814778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814778","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=814778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}