Crystal Palace have secured the transfer of centre-back Maxence Lacroix. The Frenchman is leaving Wolfsburg after four years at the club.<\/p>\n
Fabrizio Romano has confirmed<\/a> the transfer to the Premier League club with a fee of around \u00a318 million. The Italian journalist reported that Lacroix was the number one choice for manager Oliver Glasner and has given his “Here We Go”.<\/p>\n Read More:<\/strong> \u2018Deal In Place\u2019: Crystal Palace to Sign \u00a330 Million Arsenal Forward<\/a><\/p>\n The medical is set to be completed within the next 24 hours. The official announcement from the Eagles may be made by the end of the week.<\/p>\n Lacroix started his career at third-division French side FC Sochaux. The Montb\u00e9liard based club has had the likes of Jo\u00e3o Miranda, J\u00e9r\u00e9my Mathieu and Ivan Peri\u0161i\u0107 play for them.<\/p>\n Read More:<\/strong> Wolves \u2018Close to Agreement\u2019 for Cheap Aaron Ramsdale Alternative<\/a><\/p>\n After two years in the first team for The Lions, a move to Germany was made. Wolfsburg secured the defender’s talents for \u00a34 million in the summer of 2020. Glasner, the new manager at Wolfsburg then, made the defender his second signing.<\/p>\n At The Wolves Lacroix made 111 Bundesliga appearances over four seasons. The first two were managed by his new boss at Selhurst Park.<\/p>\n Lacroix is a direct replacement for the departed Joachim Andersen. The Danish centre-back moved to West London with a fee of around \u00a330 million<\/a> agreed by the two clubs. Furthermore, Marc Guehi has been heavily linked with a move to Newcastle by the end of the window. This is a much needed signing.<\/p>\n Read More: <\/strong>\u2018Pushing to Sign\u2019: Tottenham Hotspur Midfielder Identified as \u2018Top Target\u2019 by Spanish Side<\/a><\/p>\n The former FC Sochaux defender is rapid and fits into The Eagles’ high-line defending. The 24-year-old is also adept at long-ball passing. Palace currently has the 6th most long passes attempted in the league after two games but completed just 49% of them. Over the last year, Lacroix has completed 68% of his attempted long passes, ranking him in the top 25% of central defenders in Europe. Young and a ‘defensive rock<\/a>‘, there is a lot of upside to this transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Crystal Palace have secured the transfer of centre-back Maxence Lacroix. The Frenchman is leaving Wolfsburg after four years at the club. Crystal Palace Sign ‘Defensive Rock’ Maxence Lacroix From Wolfsburg Confirmed and Here We Go Fabrizio Romano has confirmed the transfer to the Premier League club with a fee of around \u00a318 million. The Italian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5033,"featured_media":631459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12,3,7188],"tags":[547,31681],"class_list":["post-645397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-crystal-palace","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-crystal-palace","tag-maxence-lacroix"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Who is Maxence Lacroix?<\/h3>\n
What This Signing Brings to Crystal Palace<\/h3>\n