Jamaal Lascelles, the club captain for Newcastle United, will not be traded after making a comeback to the starting lineup in January.
Since Fabian Schar and Sven Botman formed a strong defensive partnership at Newcastle, Jamaal Lascelles might be viewed as a periphery player there. As a result, many fans anticipated the club would decide the captain was surplus to requirements and would be sold while they could still get some money for him.
Jamaal Lascelles
Lascelles is still on the payroll, albeit Newcastle failed to add any central defense reinforcements in the summer, and The Northern Echo reports that he will continue to be so in January.
Now, with Sven Botman having missed the last few games through injury, Lascelles has been reinstated to first-team action and, in all fairness to the 29-year-old former Nottingham Forest man, he’s not looked out of place.
Lascelles was in the team as Newcastle demolished PSG in the Champions League, he was part of the team that dumped treble-winners Manchester City out of the Carabao Cup and he’s looked better than ever.
I’ll admit I was shouting for him to be sold and for us to bring in someone younger and better – ideally, Fikayo Tomori from AC Milan, but Lascelles has really surprised me since his return to action.
With the Newcastle board ironing out their January transfer window plans this week, there’s a strong suggestion that Jamaal Lascelles will be taken out of the shop window and any approaches will be refused which puts the blockers on the long-touted return to Nottingham Forest.
Another Eddie Howe masterclass in bringing out a player’s true potential, means fans will actually be glad that he’s now going nowhere.
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