You might as well change 'Lamine Diatta' to 'A Trialist' for the purposes of this summary.

Lamine bought out the remainder of his contract with Besiktas to allow himself a trial at Newcastle United in March 2008. He was given a short term deal, supposedly until the end of the season but by April he was gone.

He only managed 12 leagues games after leaving NUFC (for a side in Tunisia). Earlier in his career he had played over 120 league games for Rennes over a five year period, before moving to Lyon.

He also played 71 times for Senegal.