Jaydee Canvot Scout Report At Crystal Palace 2025/2026: France’s Rising Defender Ready For The Premier League? – Player Analysis

It was a whirlwind summer at Crystal Palace, to put it mildly.

Fresh off the back of their FA Cup triumph, Palace saw their UEFA Europa League dream snatched away by UEFAs multi-club ownership rules, thus settling for a place in the UEFA Conference League.

Star player Eberechi Eze traded South London for the north of the capital in a £60m switch to Arsenal, while club captain Marc Guehi was all but a Liverpool player on Deadline Day.

Oliver Glasner was publicly vocal about the Eagles summer in which they spent just £47m, without directly addressing the enormous creative hole left by Eze, labelling the clubs approach as passive.

One of the bright spots of the window, at least, was the arrival of young central defender Jaydee Canvot.

The 19-year-old Frenchman joined from Ligue 1 side Toulouse with the reputation as one of the countrys best defensive prospects.

Ever since debuting at the senior level last September in a 2-0 defeat to Brest, Canvot has caught the eye of scouts at some of Europes leading clubs.

In the following Jaydee Canvot scout report and player analysis, we will analyse Jaydee Canvot style of play and defensive characteristics, based on his performances with Toulouse.

Who Is Jaydee Canvot?

Jaydee Canvot is a 20-year-old French U21 international centre-back, standing 188cm tall and favouring his right foot.

Despite his age, he’s a young man under the spotlight, a situation he relishes.

Canvot is of Senegalese, Guadeloupean and Martiniquais descent but has opted into representing Les Blues since the U16 level.

It was actually at Clairefontaine, the national French training centre, where he transitioned from an attacker to a defender, eventually catching the eye of Toulouse scouts.

There, at his then-new club home, Canvot enjoyed two very successful seasons with their U19 and II side, growing enormously as an all-round defender in the process.

Canvot hasnt looked back since being handed his first team breakthrough by Carles Martinez Novell.

Last season, he made 20 senior appearances (13 starts) in a respectable campaign for Les Violets in which they finished 10th in Ligue 1.

Canvot has described himself as athletic, pretty good on the ball, pretty technical for my size, fast, creative, aggressive, and good defensively.

Jaydee Canvot Stats

Jaydee Canvots radar chart compares his performance with that of other centre-backs from Europe’s top-five leagues in 2024/2025, providing him a percentile rank with ’50’ being ‘average’.

Jaydee Canvot Pizza Chart

Generally, Canvot profiles as a progressive, front-footed defender with strong anticipation and technical comfort.

He’s more of a disruptor and distributor than a pure traditional stopper; Canvots style suits teams that play a higher line or build from the back.

The data highlights that Canvots major defensive strengths li