{"id":709938,"date":"2026-07-25T03:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709938\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T03:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:51:26","slug":"crystal-palace-consider-raphael-le-guen-as-maxence-lacroixs-chelsea-move-edges-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709938\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace consider Raphael le Guen as Maxence Lacroix&#8217;s Chelsea move edges closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/crystal-palace\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Palace<\/a> are interested in signing Brest centre-back Raphael le Guen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 19-year-old defender is on the Eagles&#8217; radar as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp9eyz14y7jo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maxence Lacroix&#8217;s move to Chelsea edges closer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Le Guen made his debut for Brest in the 2025-26 season and made six appearances in Ligue 1 <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The teenager started the final four matches of the campaign which included games against Paris St-Germain and Strasbourg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Palace have had success in signing young centre-backs from France with 19-year-old Jaydee Canvot arriving from Toulouse last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Canvot stepped into the side after the departure of captain Marc Guehi and has become a mainstay of the backline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Palace are also interested in Augsburg defender Chrislain Matsima as a potential replacement for Lacroix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former France youth international, 24, is open to a move to Selhurst Park, where he would work under compatriot Pierre Sage, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c932k94ggr9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appointed Palace head coach earlier this summer.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace are interested in signing Brest centre-back Raphael le Guen. The 19-year-old defender is on the Eagles&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709938","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=709938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}