After over a decade at Newcastle United, Jamaal Lascelles moved to Leicester City.
His time was up at St James’ Park, time to move on and start to play regular football once again.
However, Jamaal Lascelles now watching on as disaster unfolds at Leicester City.
The Foxes have played eight Championship matches since the former one-time Newcastle United captain arrived, with Lascelles starting just once.
Jamaal Lascelles started the first match after his 3 February 2026 move from Newcastle United, a 2-1 defeat at Birmingham, but since then only two brief sub appearances.
The 32 year old defender last got on the pitch for 14 minutes of the 2-0 home defeat to Norwich, but since then, has been an unused sub in the last three matches.
Leicester City find themselves with only Sheffield Wednesday below them in the Championship table with eight games remaining. Having won only one of their last 12 league matches, difficult to feel any optimism they will get out of trouble.
Considering the fact that only the Owls have conceded more goals than the Foxes, a major worry that Jamaal Lascelles can’t even get on the pitch now.
It seems incredible that Leicester City could well be on their way to the third tier, with it currently less than ten years ago when they won the Premier League.
Ironically, as Leicester City lifted that Premier League title in May 2016, it was Jamaal Lascelles and Newcastle United that were simultaneously relegated. By that point, Lascelles had only started ten league matches for United.
Leicester City fans will no doubt have shaken their heads in disbelief, like the rest of us, the total absence of any real punishment for Chelsea. Monday brought news of how Chelsea had cheated their way to success in the Premier League, with tens of millions of secret payments made over a number of years, to give them an unfair advantage. Yet not a single point deducted from them in punishment, only a fine which is meaningless, with not even a first team transfer ban, just a suspended one.
Yet two days after the announcement that Jamaal Lascelles had joined the Foxes, Leicester City announced they had been docked six points due to PSR breaches.
If they had just been let off breaking the rules, like Chelsea, with no points deduction, Leicester City would actually be now four points clear of the drop.
Instead, Leicester City are one of the clear favourites for relegation to the third tier and if that does happen, will their slide go on further to who knows where…
Meanwhile, Chelsea are allowed to simply carry on unpunished. Breaking the rules, finding endless accountancy loopholes to exploit, doing simply as they want.
They are so entitled and believe they can do whatever they like, they even believe there is nothing wrong with seeing the centre circle as their territory ahead of a match, surrounding the referee who is standing on the centre spot, for a pre-match huddle.
We all laugh at it but this is a perfect visible representation of how Chelsea see themselves, a club that believes it doesn’t need to follow the normal rules and conventions that the rest understand they have to live by.