[Newcastle United] can confirm that club captain Jamaal Lascelles suffered a rupture to the ACL in his right knee during Saturday’s victory over West Ham United. After seeing a specialist consultant, he is expected to undergo surgery next week and will be out for 6-9 months.

5 comments

1. Newcastle are having a disaster, as soon as the strikers come back the whole defense is out with an injury.

   Can’t think of a single starting player on the squad that hasn’t had a long-term injury at this rate, other than maybe Schar?

2. That’s his Newcastle career done

3. Newcastle medical team has got to go. It’s incredible how they can have this many injuries, surely they are fucking something up.

4. I’m genuinely curious the last time we had a fully fit squad to pick from, I’m going to say it was at least 18 months ago and it won’t happen again for another year.

5. Feels like it’s the 400th ACL injury we’ve seen this season across the league. An unusually high number anyway.