🚨 Reports: ex-Bundesliga club cashes in! Chelsea pay 60m for PL star | OneFootball

Chelsea appear to be closing in on their next major deal. After Morgan Rogers already arrived from Aston Villa for 138 million euros, the Premier League club now seems set to strike again with a rival side.

Maxence Lacroix is expected to join from Crystal Palace. Transfer experts Florian Plettenberg and David Ornstein both report that an agreement has been reached. According to the reports, Chelsea are set to pay 60 million euros, and the centre-back will sign a contract until 2032.

But it is not only Crystal Palace who can look forward to the money for the French international — VfL Wolfsburg will benefit as well. According to Plettenberg, the second-division club will receive 10 to 15 percent as a sell-on fee. He played in the Bundesliga from 2020 to 2024 before the now 26-year-old moved to the Premier League for 18 million euros.

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