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Newcastle spend £85m to top Sixteen-goal Lions £274.5m January window
rout Scrabble in Cup BY DAVID SAFFER
Relegation threatened Newcastle United have topped the Premier League ‘January transfer window’ table by splashing out £85m in a desperate bid to avoid the drop intoDAVID the Championship. BY SAFFER With new owners at the helm the club showed their intent to stay in theas bigMaccabi league Reiss Mogilner scored six goals at all costs. Newcastle, Watford and A Burnley London Lions thumped Scrabble in the occupy round the bottom spots withCup. Norsecond of the three Cyril Anekstein wich a point ahead and Everton furTheCity Premier League side racked up a 16-0 therwith threeDaniel pointsGreen betterand off.Michael The relegation win Kenley scrapbagging will go toathe wire with both hat-trick. Ed Southampton Brafman, Da10 points ahead of Newcastle. Crystal Palvid Dinkin, and Adam Hassanali completace,the Brentford LeedsofUnited ed rout in a and mismatch a tie. are also above but will be determined not LionsEverton could have scored in the opening end up in minute of the therelegation clash but fight. soon opened the The most heart-warming signing of the scoring and led 9-0 by half time. window has beenOne the return footballoutof The Division team, to though former Juventus and Tottenham classed, battled away to the end. star Christian Eriksen the for endwords of theatseason at Lions boss until was lost full time Brentford his heart scare the Eurosuch was after the display from hisatteam who peanevery Champions last summer. Everyone gave respect to the opposition. in“I’m the game is wishing the Danish internanot really sure there’s anything to tional in resurrecting careertowith say, wewell are happy to make ithis through the the World later this year a clear target. next roundCup of the cup, ” he commented. Another eye-catching hasvictors been Hendon United Sportssignature ran out 3-1 PhilippeLeague Coutinho Aston Villa, initially against Oneatoutfi t North London on loan with an option of a £33m deal in the Raiders. summer. Villa boss Gerrard deterThe Premier sideSteven led early in theissecond mined to succeed andto the Brazilian’s half only for Raiders equalise butarrival struck two late goals to book a place in round three of the competition. Hendon now turn their attentions to the league as they travel to Oakwood A for a crucial top of the table clash on Sunday (10am). Daniel Kristall’s team stunned the league leaders last month when they won 2-0, a BY DAVID SAFFER victory would move them to within a point Premier League of Hendon with afavourites match in Hendon hand. United Sports came from to defeat de Elsewhere in thebehind latest round of Club fixtures, Chigwell.North London Galaxy made it a 10-man Gav Lewis scored a brace in aDivision 6-2 win over three-way title race in the only One the struggling Essex to move 10 points clash of the day afterside defeating Oakwood B. clear of Oakwood, bottom of Jamie Murray sawwho reddefeated early on but Galaxy the table Faithfold 5-3 in an eight-goal rallied with goals White from Josh Cohen and Jathriller. cob Leigh to record an important 2-1 away Dovi Fehler and Chaim Korman also win. scored. benefitedJewish from Care two own GalaxyHendon head Redbridge A in goals. the table by just one point after 10 matches, Hendon’s Garbacz third place David Fairlop FC arecommented, five points“We bewere 2-1 at half time to a tricky team on hind withdown two games in hand. a tricky pitch but turned it on in the second Rafi Bloom scored for Oakwood. half showawe are potential champions. “Ittowas fantastic performance in” a The O’s have played two more games than
Tottenham’s Dele Alli has boosted Everton’s squad
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is a statement that he means business. Title favourites Manchester City are nine points clear of Liverpool and both clubs have brought in intriguing players with an eye on the future. Pep Guardiola picked up the signing of Julian Alvarez (River Plate) for £14.1m. Alvarez will not be a part of City’s treble bid this season as he returns on loan to River Plate until July. Jurgen Klopp never rests on his laurels and struck late in the window with a £37m deal for Porto winger Luis Díaz to deny Tottenham who thought they had landed the 16-goal Maccabi London Lionsinternational. It will talented Columbian be interesting to see how matters transpire with Mo Salah, on African of must-win game,currently ” commented GalaxyCup player-manager Luke Lewis. “We sat back and allowed Oakwood the ball, given the one-man advantage and looked to hit them on the counter attack with pace. “Both goals came down the right-hand side. Leigh crossed the first one into Cohen Hendon. HMH are ahimself. point back to finish, Third-place before slotting home Up with three games to first we go. ” in hand. But it will take an almighty collapseTwo for Hendon not to reclaim The Division title race also took championship. athetwist with league leaders Herstwood Maccabi eased any relegation Vale going London down toFC a 2-1 defeat at Temple fears with a 3-0 victory over London Bears Fortune. who are nowB inhave a scrap withaChigwell and Faithfold played game more Faithfold. than Vale but moved level with a 5-3 win at In Division league Masters. leaders Stoke SalmNorth London1,Raiders onJacob moved seven points clear of Borussia Kalms struck twice for Fortune who Jewdinese. scored through leading scorer James MilAlex Bleetman andof Jamie Smaje bagged a letwith his 17th goal the season. brace a 7-0 East LonThe apiece result in was all win the over moreFC remarkable donTemple Bees. were down to 11 players with as Ben Ingram, Jonny Halmer and aJames Bar‘keeper Ben Rebuck dislocating shoulder nett also hit the in the warm up.target. Stoke’s Jamiea Weiner waswin delighted “Th is was fantastic given with the the result.
Midfielder Cristian Eriksen has joined Brentford
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Nations duty for Egypt. Newcastle’s Eddie Howe has brought in five players in the battle to stay up. England regular Kieran Trippier (Atletico Madrid), Chris Wood (Burnley), Bruno Guimaraes (Lyon), Matt Targett (Aston Villa, loan) and £13m late addition Dan Burn (Brighton) will surely all play a part in the coming months. New Everton boss Frank Lampard has also bolstered his beleaguered squad with five players arriving at Goodison Park. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) is the key transfer at a possible £40m but the loan signing of Donny van de Beek (Manchester United) is also significant. Vitalii Mykolenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Nathan Patterson (Rangers) and Anwar El Ghazi (Aston Villa, loan) have
also joined the Merserysiders. Bottom of the table Burnley take on Watford this weekend and the Clarets will have £12m striker Wout Weghorst (Wolfsburg) leading the line with Wood’s departure to Newcastle. Burnley’s Sean Dysche has only brought in Weghorst but new Watford boss, Roy Hodgson, has returned to the hot seat of a Premier club. And the former England boss has Maduka Okoye (Sparta Rotterdam), Hassane Kamara (Nice), Samir (Udinese), Edo Kayembe (Eupen) and Samuel Kalu (Bordeaux) to select from after a successful window. If anyone can get Watford out of the relegation mire Hodgson can with his vast experience. The only side of the bottom four teams not to invest is Norwich. Only time will tell if this strategy works, but the Canaries have enjoyed the best form of the strugglers with successive wins in recent weeks. Away from transfers there were a number of notable departures that included Arsenal sharpshooter Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to Barcelona. Aubameyang had been out of the picture for some time so his move was no surprise to Gunners fans but he made his mark at the club. PHOTO: DAVID SAFFER Time will tell how the deals transpire but it is clear how essential staying at the top table is for all clubs.
“It was a proper old school performance, we battled and defended for the 90 minutes and took our chances. Experience proved “After football in the”last few hand over Athletico. to beminimal the winner. weeks our rustiness was clear from the start, Camden City defeated Brady FC 2-1, Ha-
Lewis double sends Hendon 10 points clear however the goals soon came,” he said. “It was another dominant the circumstances, ” said performance delighted from Fortune boys,Simon an important boss Linden.win for confidence and team Sunday’s game “Wemorale had a heading number into of players out, Reagainst buck gotJewdinese. injured, ”so I couldn’t have asked Second placethe Jewdinese down to a any more from players.went We wish Ben surpriserecovery. 3-1 defeat at mid-table NWL Azzurri. speedy Brook Rovers Scrabble 7-1. “It wasFarm a proper oldthumped school performance, Phillipe Auret Jonah for Gordon Oli we battled and(2), defended the 90Boyd, minutes Assor, Danour Cohen, Simon Zeffertt and Sam and took chances. Experience proved Georgevic scored It’s for Rovers. to be the winner. a big win, one we will In Division Two, to Geez Park and enjoy and we hope build onRangers it in 2019. ” London Athletico the spoils in aas topa He added, “Thisshared win marks 50 years of the table football clubclash. and will be one Nigel Kyte and Rangersassociated remain three points ahead after a everyone with the club from day hard fought 1-1 draw and have two games in
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poel Hampstead and Boca Chillers drew 1-1. Away from league action, Oakwood Old one will enjoy. ” Boys past Oakwood 2-1 and Valeedged boss Jacob EmanuelTown was quick to Maccabi London FC Vets defeated Mill Hill wish Rebuck well following his injury. Dons 3-1 in the Peter Morrison Trophy. “First and most importantly, everyone at In would the second O’sFortune Old Boys host Vale like toround, wish the ‘keeper Jewishwe Care B ortoLondon aRedbridge quick recovery, hope see himBears, back Maccabi Vets pitch face as a tough at Stoke on the football soon astask possible, ” he Salmon. In other ties the highlight sees said. HMH Oakwood in an commented, all-Premier As forplay the defeat, Emanuel clash, Hendon are clear against “It doesn’t matter how favourites big a squad you Chigwell. Maccabi Boca have, you Manchester can never account forand unavailChillers Geesfive Park and ability orwelcome injury. Only of Rangers today’s team Leeds Maccabi respectively. Faithfold Whitea played in our recent win over FC Team, host of NWL Azzuri, London Athletico play lack togetherness and poor individual Reich Insurance.
