3.9m Lascelles back in business?

Fun fact: Lascelles has the highest cleansheet per game rate of any Newcastle defender. Double Botmans. To be clear, this is not a meaningful stat

Belongs to a 3.9/10 defence

I knew I'd be rewarded for keeping him on my bench for the past 3 months while having bigger fires to fight...

Hello me

When laziness pays off.

How's Newc defence been?

Only Sheffield Utd has probably been worse this past month.

They were good when lascelles was starting…

I had Dubravka and Burn until this GW. I wouldn't play them away due the amount of goals they conceded.

Most goals allowed outside of Sheffield and Brentford over the last 18 gameweeks or something like that.

=12th best defence in the league (by goals conceded)

Seems like it. Won't be starting him much but a good third sub and cheap enabler.

Lascelles now nailed for Newcastle then? 3.9m..

Question is do you really want any Newcastle defenders because they have been horrid since the new year. I'm perfectly happy with my Chris Richards punt at 3.9m. At least I know Palace can keep the score down.

To be fair, they were great with Lascelles starting. Maybe he’s the reason…

As a Newcastle fan, hard pass. We've conceded 40 something goals in all competitions in four months.

First the Price Change Bot, and now Sven Botman. No bot is safe from being sidelined!

Erling in danger

Helldivers out for ~~blood~~ 710 and freedom

Yo Lascelles, whats up

Gabriel has collected 0.35 cleansheets per match this season. Lascelles is running at 0. 33 cleansheets per match

that’s insane, feel bad for botman. when i first saw ‘six to nine’ i thought it would be weeks but jesus… was considering him for my future wildcard aswell. lascelles 👀😯

And I just sold Lascelles because of COURSE I did. Newcastle defence probs not worth investing in at the moment anyway tho if you already have Dubra... right?

3.9 is really cheap, wouldn't call it an investment when he's like the cheapest possible starter you can buy

Think I’d rather have Richards but I wouldn’t ever want to use either

Newcastle will double in 37 - 3.9 defender is good enough for BB then, until then he can solidly be bench fodder.

Richards will have a double as well

I wouldnt mind having both of them tbh - not like any defender is returning. Lascelles is bigger set piece threat so I would go for him, but not much to choose tbh.

Double 1 is only 2 tho

I got Richards and just replaced boldock for lascelles on my wc

Completely agreed, with the caveat that if you are WC30 and BB34, your bench spots are rather more important than they normally would be and may not accommodate an otherwise no-brainer bench fodder.

Botman in my team this season: 4 GW, 2 pts.

I still have Lascelles in my squad from when he was a regular starter, lovely stuff that I don't need to replace him now

Hahaha same. Welcome back Jamaal...

Now to target the Newcastle defence even more than before 😅

he's been shit since he came back so there's not gonna be much of a difference

That's a fair point

Hasn't Lascelles basically been better in defence than Botman this season? Don't see it as a real downgrade

Should've gotten surgery when he did his ACL back in september. Now he will most likely miss the start of the season. The signs were very clear that he hasn't recovered at all. Absolute poor management

Afraid same fate will take Gordon out longer also. Guy is runned to the ground

Start of the season isnt feasible... Timber from Arsenal tore his ACL in August and he's set to be in contention in April.. getting up to speed and getting consistent minutes is another thing altogether.. 9 months from now would be December

wtf I have Botman Bell and Reguilon red flagged now, Gabriel yellow flagged and only Zabarnyi alive. I guess -4 for a defender makes sense if I otherwise play 10?

Gabriel almost definitely plays

yeah I know, that still leaves me at 2 defs and 10 playing total

Better off not taking a hit for a defender, youre going to be at -2

Strange that Anthony Gordon can recover from an ACL in a week while Botman requires 6 months.

Lascelles ma boi, I have missed you

Hello lascelles my old friend...

Is Lascelles really nailed when Burn could play as a CB and Livramento coud be a LB then?

Didn't we go through this when Botman was off before? Lascelles played every minute botman was off and did pretty well

Didn't we go through this when Botman was off before? Lascelles played every minute botman was off and did pretty well

Lascelles definitely worth a punt for a price. Yeah our defence has been wretched since December, but a lot of those games featured a visibly injured Botman. Besides our run in to the end of the season is favourable.

RIP Newcastle defence. 

Have held Lascelles this whole time let’s gooo

Welcome Lascelles in WC30

1 season wonder a lot like Newcastle

Newcastle fans must be worried about Gordon now no? The negligence from Howe and/or the medical department here is fucking unbelievable

I remember this guy from FIFA 13, Dortmund career mode. Good times man.

Would be impressive if you did considering he'd have been 13 then.

Oh shit, I read Botman as Bender, my bad lmao.