{"id":21102,"date":"2026-07-24T22:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=21102"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:40:51","slug":"chelsea-set-to-sign-france-defender-lacroix-from-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=21102","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea set to sign France defender Lacroix from Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Chelsea look set to sign Crystal Palace\u2019s French defender Maxence Lacroix.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old centre-back has been given permission to hold talks with the Blues after an agreement between the clubs was reached.<\/p>\n<p>Lacroix moving to Stamford Bridge could lead to Axel Disasi, Trevoh Chalobah or Benoit Badiashile heading to Palace \u2013 Chalobah has previously been on loan with the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Lacroix began his career in France with Sochaux before earning a move to German side VfL Wolfsburg in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to make 130 appearances across four seasons in the Bundesliga before completing a \u00a318m transfer to Palace in the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He has since made 70 Premier League appearances and this summer he featured three times for France at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #1b4f9c; color: white; border-radius: 12px; padding: 16px; display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px; font-family: sans-serif; box-shadow: 0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); flex-wrap: nowrap;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 28px; height: 28px; flex-shrink: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\" alt=\"WhatsApp\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.commentwrap --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/themify_builder_content --><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea look set to sign Crystal Palace\u2019s French defender Maxence Lacroix. The 26-year-old centre-back has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}