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“Some concerns” Crystal Palace could lose “important” player who’s on Liverpool’s radar
There will reportedly be “some concerns” inside Crystal Palace about the future of Maxence Lacroix, who has been linked with Liverpool.
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The 25-year-old has impressed during his time at Selhurst Park, and is an even more important player for the club now after Marc Guehi’s departure to Manchester City in January.
Lacroix has been linked with Liverpool by the Daily Mail, and it’s certainly easy to imagine the Frenchman being a solid signing to potentially replace Ibrahima Konate as he nears the end of his Reds contract.
With Lacroix just earning his first call-up to the France squad in this international break, Mick Brown has expressed his view that Palace might be concerned about how that impacts the player’s future.
Speaking to Football Insider, the former Premier League scout suggested he’s seen this happen with a lot of players before, as their international teammates can get in their ear about playing in the Champions League.
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“Crystal Palace will have some concerns about Maxence Lacroix,” Brown said.
“We spoke about it with (Jean-Philippe) Mateta and I’ve seen it happen countless times, these players get international recognition and all of a sudden everything changes.
“Their agents are knocking on the door looking for pay rises, or they’re looking at interested clubs and whether they can capitalise on the talk surrounding them.
“They go away with France and everybody’s talking about playing in the Champions League and all of that sort of thing, and it has an impact.”
He added: “So in that respect I don’t think there will be any major concern, but after everything that happened with Mateta, it will be something they’re worried about.
“I watched him a lot at Wolfsburg and since then he’s gone to Palace and he’s been excellent, especially now in the absence of Marc Guehi where he’s stepped up.
“He’s such an important part of everything they do, so if there’s any suggestion he could leave it would be an issue, but it’s one to keep an eye on.”
Liverpool will surely fight to keep Konate, but they’ll also likely have an eye on someone like Lacroix in case they do end up losing their key defensive player on a free transfer.
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