Chelsea have agreed a deal with Crystal Palace to sign Maxence Lacroix. <p>The 26-year-old defender has given permission to finalise the transfer. Palace were seeking around £55m in negotiations given the fee Tottenham paid for Jan Paul van Hecke from Brighton.</p><p><em>Sky Sports News</em> understands Chelsea have given Palace the chance to discuss signing one of their defenders available for transfer during talks.</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/13557656/maxence-lacroix-to-chelsea-crystal-palace-defender-is-quick-excels-when-one-on-one-and-is-a-leader-now-too"><strong>Why do Chelsea want to sign Lacroix from Palace?</strong></a></li><li><a href="https://qrcode.skysports.com/TransfersSkySportsApp" target="_blank"><strong>Transfer Centre LIVE!</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a href="http://www.skysports.com/football/live-blog/11668/13025497/chelsea-transfer-news-rumours-and-gossip-live-updates-and-latest-on-deals-signings-loans-and-contracts" target="_blank"><strong>Chelsea news & transfers</strong></a><strong>🔵</strong></li><li><strong>Got Sky? <a href="https://qrcode.skysports.com/skysports/WatchPremarticles" target="_blank">Watch Chelsea games LIVE on your phone</a></strong><strong>📱</strong></li><li><strong>Not got Sky? <a href="https://www.sky.com/tv/sports?dcmp=Ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink" target="_blank">Get Sky Sports</a> or <a href="http://www.nowtv.com/membership/watch-sky-sports?DCMP=ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink" target="_blank">stream with no contract on NOW</a></strong><strong>📺</strong></li><li><a href="https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12110/10952996/sky-sports-push-notifications-faq-how-to-receive-the-alerts-you-want" target="_blank"><strong>Choose the Sky Sports push notifications you want!</strong></a> 🔔</li></ul><p>There has been interest from other clubs in <strong>Axel Disasi</strong>, <strong>Trevoh Chalobah </strong>and <strong>Benoit Badiashile</strong>.</p><p>Palace and Chelsea have a good relationship and they have done deals for players such as Chalobah and Ben Chilwell in the past.</p><p>The Eagles have been concentrating on Augsburg centre-back <strong>Chrislain Matsima. </strong>However,<strong><em> </em></strong><em>Sky Sports News</em> understands they are now prepared to walk away from the deal, having become frustrated with the speed of negotiations.</p><p>Palace have been interested in several centre-backs since the January window when <strong>Marc Guehi</strong> was sold to Manchester City.</p><p>Among those have been Toulouse's <strong>Charlie Cresswell</strong>, Lyon's <strong>Ruben Kluivert </strong>and Trabzonspor's <strong>Chibuke Nwaiwu</strong>, who is also of interest to Fulham.</p><h3>Chelsea's key summer business so far</h3><p><strong>In</strong></p><p>Geovany Quenda – Sporting, £43.5m</p><p><a href="https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/13557367/chelsea-transfer-news-marco-palestra-signs-from-serie-a-side-atalanta-in-deal-worth-lb43m">Marco Palestra </a>- Atalanta, £43m</p><p>Denner – Corinthians, £8.7m</p><p>Dastan Satpaev – Kairat Almaty, £2.1m</p><p>Emmanuel Emegha – Strasbourg, undisclosed</p><p><a href="https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13564944/morgan-rogers-transfer-news-chelsea-complete-record-breaking-lb117m-deal-to-sign-forward-from-aston-villa">Morgan Rogers</a> – Aston Villa, £117m</p><p><strong>Out</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13554263/marc-cucurella-transfer-news-real-madrid-sign-defender-from-chelsea-in-deal-worth-lb51-8m">Marc Cucurella</a> – Real Madrid, £51.8m</p><p><a href="https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/13562081/andrey-santos-man-utd-complete-lb50m-signing-of-brazil-international-midfielder-from-chelsea">Andrey Santos</a> – Man Utd, £50m</p><p>Tyrique George – Everton, £24m</p><p>Jimmy-Jay Morgan – West Brom, £4m</p><widget id="1"></widget>
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