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Newcastle boss Alan Pardew is ready to snap up Nottingham Forest’s young centre-half Jamaal Lascelles in a £3million deal.

Pardew hopes to rush through the move on Monday, with Lascelles pulled out of Forest’s pre-season game with West Brom at the weekend.

The Magpies - better known for bringing in foreign recruits - are keen to land Lascelles who has been linked with Tottenham and Queens Park Rangers.

Promising defender Lascelles may be sold by Forest to give manager Stuart Pearce funds for his own signings.

Lascelles may even be loaned back to the Midlands outfit for the first half of the season if Pardew does not plan to use him immediately.

Pearce has plenty of centre-halves in his squad and, although several of them have injuries, the former Forest defender seems open to letting Lascelles go.