Chelsea have completed the signing of French defender Maxence Lacroix from Crystal Palace.<\/strong><\/p>\n An agreement between the clubs was recently reached<\/strong><\/span> and the centre-back, 26, has finalised the \u00a351m move, signing a six-year contract.<\/p>\n New head coach Xabi Alonso has been keen to improve Chelsea\u2019s options in defence.<\/p>\n \u201cI am really happy to be part of this beautiful club. Everyone knows the legend of Chelsea<\/strong><\/span>its tradition of winning, and to be a part of that is a proud moment,\u201d Lacroix told the Blues\u2019 website. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhen I spoke with the manager, I saw that we have the same direction and desire for this club.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to win. When you see the quality of the players here, everything we have around the club, it\u2019s something that we can achieve. The ambition is to lift trophies, and I can\u2019t wait to contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n Lacroix began his career in France with Sochaux before earning a move to German side VfL Wolfsburg in 2020.<\/p>\n 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 He has since made 70 Premier League appearances and this summer he featured three times for France at the World Cup.<\/p>\n Get the latest direct to your phone \u2013 follow West London Sport\u2019s WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/p>\n Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea have completed the signing of French defender Maxence Lacroix from Crystal Palace. An agreement…<\/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-22885","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\/22885","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=22885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22885\/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=22885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"WhatsApp\"\/](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6b\/WhatsApp.svg\")
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