JAMAAL LASCELLES and Paul Dummett are the subject of deadline-day interest at Newcastle United, with the Magpies having accepted they will not be making any signings of their own.

Lascelles has been interesting Besiktas all month, and the Turkish side have made renewed contact today to discuss a deal.

With the Turkish transfer window remaining open until next week, Besiktas do not have to finalise a deal for the Newcastle skipper ahead of tonight’s UK 11pm deadline.

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However, they have made attempts to engineer a deal during the UK window rather than leave negotiations to the last possible moment.

Newcastle head coach Eddie Howe would ideally like to hold on to Lascelles, who has retained the captain’s armband despite struggling for game time in the last couple of seasons.

However, the 30-year-old has entered the final six months of his current contract on Tyneside and has not been able to agree a new deal with the Magpies.

A sale would make financial sense given the risk of Lascelles walking away for nothing in the summer,  but would potentially leave Newcastle short of centre-half cover given that the club captain stepped in to partner Fabian Schar when Sven Botman was injured in the autumn.

Dummett has been the subject of interest from both Leeds United and Ipswich Town in the last couple of days, and while the former have dropped out of the running, the latter remain interested in signing the left-back.

Leeds have switched their attention to Conor Roberts, and are set to sign the Burnley left-back on loan for the remainder of the season.

Ipswich remain keen on Dummett though, and have been in touch with the hierarchy at Newcastle to flag up their interest in the 32-year-old who, like Lascelles, is due to become a free agent in the summer. Dummett’s only two starts for Newcastle this season came in the early rounds of the Carabao Cup.