McClaren om Lascelles i dagens Sky-Studio:
He came last season, I knew him from Forest. I had him there,” he said.
He was big and strong, quite mobile and athletic. He progressed through the year and all of a sudden from nowhere he became a leader which was something we never really had.
He used to come after the senior players and the foreign players in training if he thought they were putting it in, which caused some conflict. But it was something we needed at the time because we had a very quiet, very passive dressing room.
At 24 to be Newcastle’s captain is a very big responsibility - the expectation is enormous but I think he can handle it.
(The conflict) was needed because it was a very quiet dressing room. As soon as he did it once or twice, players started to come back at him. We needed the conflict.
