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I personally rate him higher than most of the current English CBs, although that’s more down to the derth of talent we have back there than Lascelles being great himself. He’s great for us, but has a long way to go. I could see why a Chelsea would want him though!

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I'd put him in the Mawson, Maguire, that Burnley centre-back's bracket like.

 

I rate Cahill and Stones as our two best and then it’s down to anyone really as the lack of talent in that area is huge. Lascelles would be up there with the best of the rest mind, easily. He has improved so much. Cahill and Stomes though... they are not exactly Terry and Rio.

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Fucking £100m [emoji38]

 

He’s done very well and looks a very good prospect, but come on [emoji38]

What would you ask for like if Chelsea rang up? Liverpool have just set the bar with Van Dyke.

Van Dijk is much better on the ball. He wouldn't have went for near that if he was just a Dutch version of Lascelles, even if Lascelles is perhaps an equal or maybe better defender
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Michael Keane went for £30M - think that's the figure that'll more likely be closest too should any interest actually be real.

 

Obviously as fans we would value Jamal far higher, seeing an increased importance in keeping him in the squad than perhaps the board will.

 

Aye that sounds about right

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I’d value him at 25-30m easily. To us he could be the difference between going down or staying up so he’s worth much more and that’s before taking into consideration everything else he brings to the club.

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It’s insanity to even consider selling Lascelles at present.  He’s our most important player, our leader and a club icon.  The only time we should consider selling is if he suddenly becomes s***/injury prone or starts thinking he’s bigger than the club.

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He's improving steadily, after a dodgy start, and 24 is still quite young for a centre back. Unless we get a silly offer (and £100m would be silly), I'd hang on because his value is likely to increase and we don't yet know how good he's going to become.

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He's also being made good by being coached by Rafa. If we lose Rafa I'd expect his quality to fall. I don't know if that means we should sell him whilst we still have Rafa :lol:

 

Obviously keep both would be my preferred course of action.

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Im in the keep him at all costs camp.

 

The transfer fee (and only the transfer fee, nothing else) might be allocated to new players but that will as usual also have to include wages so we can at best get in a replacement that might or might not be as good, or we can get in 2 or 3 mediocre players to try and strengthen the whole squad who are unlikely to be good enough anyway.

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I could honestly see him turning Chelsea down and then being forced out a la Carroll.

Well it's a theory which fits and has the usual suspects in the black hats and in the white hats, in the Barrack Road Ranch. Personally, I think he a highly ambitious young man and suspect his head would be well and truly turned by Champions League type interest.

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He'll know he could commit to stay for Rafa who has shown him trust and then rafa could be sacked and joe kinnear lurched back into replace him and be back in the championship in no time. If the future is precarious for the club, and it always will be while ashley is in charge, we will struggle to keep players even ones not only motivated by money. And even then as much as we hate players for being greedy, Newcastle sink again, he may never get a serious chance at premier league wages again, wages that could keep him well fed for life. I wouldn't like it, I'd even dislike him for jumping ship but couldn't outright hate any player for thinking they will only be let down, because we will only be let down while Ashley is in charge.

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Can't see him being forced out of the club quite like Carroll was. There was an agenda there with Llmbias at the time. He wanted rid of all the strong voices around the dressing room, and wanted to gut the club of all those that didn't sign that bonus sheet as soon as possible.

 

Not saying that the club wouldn't take favourably to selling anyone for a pretty penny - but it's more likely this time round they'd allow Lascelles to stay on improved terms rather than hoy him out as first chance.

 

He's bound to be on the radar of all kinds of clubs across Europe - that's the way football is nowadays - but until there is a bit more concrete reporting in the press about interest, not worrying one bit. Whatever that link that was posted up about Chelsea is nothing more than clickbait nonsense, that's manufacturing rumours. Could have quite easily replaced Chelsea with Arsenal, Spurs, hell even Dortmund.

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