Newcastle news: Lascelles and Diame training-ground FIGHT caused Shelvey to break finger

Reports surfaced on Thursday that Shelvey had broken a finger on his left hand in training after X-rays revealed the damage.

The midfielder now has his left arm in a cast, but it was unknown how he sustained the injury. 

However, The Sun claim the damage was done as a result of a training-ground bust-up between two his team-mates. 

It is said Lascelles and Diame were at each other’s throats during a fiery session at at the club’s Darsley Park centre.

Both were firing insults at each other with Newcastle club captain Lascalles repeatedly calling Diame “lazy”. 

But tensions reached boiling point when the pair apparently squared up to each other and began to trade punches. 

Shelvey was supposedly on hand to try and break the scrap up, but he got caught in the flurry of punches and fractured his hand during the commotion, reports The Sun. 

The England international was immediately rushed off to hospital and will be monitored before their clash with Southampton next Sunday (4pm).

This came shortly before it was announced that Lascelles had signed a new six-year contract at St James’ Park.

And the 23-year-old expressed his delight at committing his future to the club until 2023. 

He said: “I’m really happy here and want to take the club as high as it can go.”