Newcastle United defender Jamaal Lascelles says team spirit is rock solid after the club dumped the disruptive influences.
The ex-England Under-21 international claims the Toon's team spirit is now a million miles from what it was in 2015-16 – and he has vowed to not let any new signings break it.
Lascelles told The Sun: “There's a massive difference.
“I'm not going to sit here and slate the players that were here before, but maybe they didn't have that heart which you needed to have at that time.
“I think togetherness and being a team is so important in football and that's exactly what we are now.
“It's important that we keep that, so whoever we bring in, their attitude has got to be right.
“If I see it's not, I'll tell them or I'll pull them to a side and say 'Listen'.
“Players can affect how a team is, but the boys won't let that happen.
“If someone was to come into this team, they'd have to do it the way we do it."
Source: tribalfootball.com