Jamaal Lascelles

[tommo]

He’s so fucking bad. I hate the fact he’s a starter and somehow club captain. A truly awful CB. 

[TRon]

Every game he starts is costing us points. Two more down the Swanee today, we can moan about clubs charging too much for a replacement, but this is the result of hesitating. 

[mighty__mag]

I was under the impression Lille just kept pushing up the price? A top defender will be 50m, if he's not interested then fair enough.

[Guest neesy111]

One of the worst CBs in the league.

[Abacus]

3 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

Hopefully the “great bloke” Mike Ashley takes him to Derby. Hopefully before the next game too. 

 

Haven't they suffered enough?

[Oregon_Geordie]

Liability. both with and without the ball. Just walks around spitting trying to look like a hard man. He's not a captain.

[Danh1]

3 minutes ago, Oregon_Geordie said:

Liability. both with and without the ball. Just walks around spitting trying to look like a hard man. He's not a captain.

Was lucky not to gift them one not long after the goal with a shocking ball.

[jackyboy]

He tried to lose the game several times with loose passes. If he's not replaced one the week or so we are down

[Lush Vlad]

I can’t believe how bad he is on the ball. He is somehow getting worse. I was actually surprised we kept passing it to him from midfield. As surely the players must realise he is a liability?
 

What’s even worse, is how pathetic that ‘jump’ was for the goal. He looks a brute and a real unit when the header or tackle is in his favour. Then when he has a challenge and he has to think about what he is doing. He is found out more often than not.  
 

Awful player. Awful captain. Sick of watching him. 

[Klaus]

Get rid of this donkey ASAP.

[OoOGazOoO]

He has been woeful for a long time in my opinion, just looks like an absolute plodder at the back, chuff knows how he is our captain.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Shocking, must never been seen again. 
 

PS he also has nobody in front of home to offer any protection. 

[LeeB]

Our biggest problem, and that's saying something.

[pubteam]

He's our worst player by a margin. How the hell he has held on to the captain's armband as long as he has confuses me. We can't build a solid team with him at the back. I hope he never plays another game for us, absolute garbage.

[Andy]

He's absolutely shocking, like. Find it hard to believe that we don't even have someone in the academy who could do a better job. 

 

Constantly loses the ball and his lack of pace pulls the defensive line back ten yards. Isn't even particularly good in the air to make up for it. 

 

Sometimes looks okay against forwards who are equally immobile, that's about the extent of his game. 

[teohgk]

He made mistakes every single game and he’s starting for us as captain

 

There’s no reason we should survive relegation

[Guest]

Need a centre-back bare minimum for Leeds.

[Jordan]

Hes getting all the shit but where was Schar for the goal? Lascelles had two men. 

[Hanshithispantz]

One of those games where he was thankfully so bad that Eddie Howe sort of has no choice but to drop him like

 

Same with Shelvey, we have to pish forward deals in the transfer market because they're unplayably bad.

[Gallowgate Toon]

Caused today's plight, imo, with his poor on-ball decisions. Team seemed to shit itself after.

[Shearergol]

Somehow worse than Clark 

[Khalidao]

Just fucking release him. It's poisonous having him in the squad, specially with that captain armband.

[Vinny Green Balls]

That's just it. I think Howe is seriously going to have to make an example of some players. the captain of this shit show is a good place to start.

[Pata]

The only reason he's a PL footballer is his presumed ability to deal with crosses but he even failed at that today. Just nowhere near good enough.

[Thiago]

13 minutes ago, Jordan said:

Hes getting all the shit but where was Schar for the goal? Lascelles had two men. 

Schar is the one to blame. He doesn't track the run nor does he even try tot impede it. 

 

The problem is Lascelles hardly had a Bobby Moore performance himself. For me, it can be diagnosed quite simply; 

 

Schar can only be considered reliable in a back three. It allows for the other defenders to bail him out when he switches off mentally. Lascelles is arguably in a similar boat because the back three stops him needing to be anything on the ball, but honestly, I think the lad just needs a move. He's spent so long here, too long, in a comfy chair knowing he's safe and that a few fist pumps will chase away any real criticism. At no point in his Newcastle career has he been truly tested or forced out of the team. That level of security has caused him to become sloppy.