Jermaine Anthony Jenas (born 18 February 1983) is an English football pundit and retired professional footballer. He played as a central midfielder for English club sides Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and Queens Park Rangers. He also appeared 21 times for the senior England national football team, scoring one goal. Jenas was named PFA Young Player of the Year for the 2002–03 season.
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Jermaine Anthony Jenas (born 18 February 1983) is an English football pundit and retired professional footballer. He played as a central midfielder for English club sides Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and Queens Park Rangers. He also appeared 21 times for the senior England national football team, scoring one goal. Jenas was named PFA Young Player of the Year for the 2002–03 season. He is of mixed Afro-Caribbean and English descent. His father Dennis was born with the surname Genas but had it changed by deed poll as he wanted the initials \”D. J. \”. Jenas and his family were subjected to racial abuse from neighbours in the 1980s. He was educated at the Becket School in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. In 2002 Jenas joined Newcastle United from Nottingham Forest for £5 million and he became the second most expensive teenager in British football after Robbie Keane. In the 2001–2002 football season, Jenas played 12 games for Newcastle United and Newcastle United qualified for the2002–03 Champions League. At Newcastle United he scored a total of 12 goals in 152 appearances. He then moved to Tottenham in 2005 for £7 million, with whom he won the Football League Cup in the 2007–08 season. The tail end of his playing career saw loan spells at Aston Villa in 2011 and Nottingham Forest in the second tier in 2012, before a permanent move to struggling Premier League club QPR in the January 2013 transfer window.
In May 2013, he played for much of the following season before injury finally forced his retirement. While still recuperating from his final injury, he moved into media work as a pundit, most recently for the BBC on Match of the Day, as well as BT Sport. He has also begun co-presenting The One Show for theBBC in 2020. He made his debut aged 17 on 7 January 2001, starting in a 1–0 home defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the FA Cup. He became a regular and scored his first senior goal on 18 August in a 2–1 defeat at Barnsley. After four goals in 33 games across all competitions, he was sold to Newcastle United for $5 million in February 2002. His club transfer record for a teenager lasted for months when, in the following preseason, Newcastle broke the club record, and the then British record, in signing the 2002 Young European Footballer of the year award winner and Portuguese international Hugo Viana for £8. 5 million. In his first full season with Newcastle he winning the 2002-03 PFA young player of the season award. He scored 6 goals in 32 games in the Premier League and scored 2 goals in the 2003–04 season.
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