Jamaal Lascelles leaves Newcastle after more than a decade to move to the King Power Stadium, where Leicester City are on a run of 24 Championship games without a clean sheet
Jordan Blackwell
11:30, 03 Feb 2026Updated 11:33, 03 Feb 2026
Jamaal Lascelles has joined Leicester City from Newcastle United
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Jamaal Lascelles has joined Leicester City from Newcastle United(Image: Serena Taylor/Newcastle United via Getty Images)
Leicester City have completed the signing of experienced centre-back Jamaal Lascelles from Newcastle.
The 32-year-old centre-back joins in a permanent deal on a short-term contract to the end of the season, and should be the first of three arrivals the day after deadline day.
He arrives at the King Power Stadium to strengthen a City defence that has failed to keep a clean sheet in any of their past 24 Championship fixtures, but is also now running low on options.
With Wout Faes leaving on loan for Monaco earlier in the window, with Jannik Vestergaard joining Harry Souttar on the injury list, and with Caleb Okoli suspended for this weekend’s trip to Birmingham, City were down to Ben Nelson and teenage full-back Bade Aluko as their likely centre-half pairing.
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Lascelles has been at Newcastle for more than a decade since joining from Nottingham Forest, where he came through the youth ranks.
With Newcastle, he has played more than 250 games, captaining the side for many of those. His leadership qualities have received plenty of praise.
The concerns will be over his fitness though. Lascelles missed the whole of last season with an ACL tear and since returning this season, he has played just two matches, both as a substitute in September.
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Given the availability crisis City have at the heart of their defence, they don’t have time for Lascelles to ease his way in, and he may be thrown straight into the starting line-up this weekend.
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