The 24-year-old joins Palace on loan until the end of the season, with the club having the option to make the transfer permanent. He will wear the No. 29 shirt.<\/p>\n
Skilful forward Guessand \u2013 born on the French island of Corsica \u2013 is a product of the Nice academy. After impressive loan spells at Lausanne-Sport and Nantes, he excelled in 2024\/25, scoring 12 goals as Nice finished fourth in Ligue 1 and winning the club\u2019s Player of the Season award.<\/p>\n
Those performances led to a summer switch to Villa, for whom he made his full debut against Palace earlier this season.<\/p>\n
Guessand is also a senior Ivory Coast international and has won 19 caps for his country, scoring three goals, including one last month at the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n
Chairman Steve Parish said: \u201cEvann is an exciting talent who we are confident will flourish on the South London stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis arrival further bolsters our forward options, as we look to push on in the Premier League and in Europe in the second half of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guessand said: “I’m really, really excited. I was waiting for this moment for a very long time, and I’m excited to play with my new teammates.<\/p>\n
“I think, with the quality we have, we can achieve something.”<\/p>\n
Everyone at Palace would like to welcome Evann to South London and wish him the very best for his career in red and blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 24-year-old joins Palace on loan until the end of the season, with the club having the option…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-399893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}