{"id":672251,"date":"2026-07-11T08:24:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=672251"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:24:38","slug":"crystal-palace-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/11\/crystal-palace-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace Contract Extension For Fan Favourite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crystal Palace<\/span> have announced<\/span><\/a> the one-year extension of Japanese international Daichi Kamada, with the Eagles securing his services until the summer of 2027.\u00a0 Kamada, who joined the side in 2024, has become a key figure in midfield, appearing 89 times in just two seasons, which included starting both the FA Cup and Conference League finals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Crystal Palace Contract Extension amid Transfer Interest<\/b><\/h2>\n

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The South London side will be delighted to tie Kamada down to a new contract after Sky Sports reported that clubs in<\/span> both Spain and Italy were interested in<\/span><\/a> the international midfielder, as well as fears that new Nottingham Forest manager Oliver Glasner might try to convince Kamada to join him at the City Ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read More<\/b>: <\/span>Brazil Survives a Scare Against Japan and Carlo Ancelotti Shows Why He’s the Last Don<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The versatile midfielder is coming off the back of an encouraging World Cup with Japan, scoring twice, which included a 90th-minute equaliser against the Netherlands, with the Samurai Blue eventually being edged out by Brazil in the knockout stages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kamada Aims for More Silverware<\/b><\/h3>\n

Despite a difficult start to his Premier League career, Kamada has since become a fans’ favourite after excelling in central midfield alongside Adam Wharton. Palace’s first-ever Japanese player was influential in their European triumph as he scored in the first leg of the semi-final against Shakhtar Donetsk on his way to winning Man of the Match for both legs against the Ukrainian side.<\/span><\/p>\n

With his new Crystal Palace contract extension, Kamada now looks ahead to new management under Pierre Sage as Palace enter new territory with a Europa League campaign on the horizon, a competition which Kamada is no stranger to after playing the full 120 minutes and scoring a penalty in Frankfurt’s 2022 triumph over Rangers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palace chairman<\/span> Steve Parish outlined the<\/span><\/a>:” Fantastic news for Crystal Palace, with Kamada making a great impact in the centre of midfield as well as becoming a fans favourite on and off the pitch.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In a brief interview, the<\/span> Japanese midfielder added<\/span><\/a>:” We will get another trophy, I will give it my all, I promise.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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IMAGO \/ Colorsport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crystal Palace have announced the one-year extension of Japanese international Daichi Kamada, with the Eagles securing his services until the summer of 2027.\u00a0 Kamada, who joined the side in 2024, has become a key figure in midfield, appearing 89 times in just two seasons, which included starting both the FA Cup and Conference League finals. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5900,"featured_media":655397,"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":[12,30,3],"tags":[547,8215],"class_list":["post-672251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crystal-palace","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-crystal-palace","tag-daichi-kamada"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672251","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\/5900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672251"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672356,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672251\/revisions\/672356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}