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Goal takes a look at the most memorable Premier League deals that were finalised on January transfer deadline day over the years

GettyFernando Torres | Chelsea | £50m

Fernando Torres’ £35 million deadline day transfer to Chelsea from Liverpool was a then-British transfer record. ‘El Nino’, a former Kop darling, infamously left the Reds to join Chelsea in 2011 in search for silverware and success amid a period of deep turbulence for the Anfield side.

While he had endeared himself to the Merseyside faithful with 81 goals, forming a prolific partnership with Steven Gerrard and earning a reputation as one of the Premier League’s most feared strikers, he was considered a flop at Stamford Bridge.

He scored his first Chelsea goal against West Ham on April 23, 2011 after a 903-minute goal-less run, though he did lift the Champions League trophy with the Blues in 2012.

AdvertisementGetty ImagesLuis Suarez | Liverpool | £23m

The Uruguayan international’s time at Anfield was marred with controversy, but he will be best remember for his scoring prowess and lethal attacking skill with the Reds. Luis Suarez was initially brought to Liverpool to Ajax in a view to partner Torres in attack, and scored on his debut against Stoke in February 2011.

He scored just four Premier League goals in his first half-season for Liverpool but became his side’s most valuable asset over the next few years, steadily increasing his league tally to 11 goals in 2011-12, 23 goals in 2012-13 and 31 goals in 2013-14.

He played a key role in Liverpool’s 2014 title push under Brendan Rodgers, and left for Barcelona later that summer.

GettyAndy Carroll | Liverpool | £35m

If there’s anybody who embodies the idea of a ‘panic buy’, it’s Andy Carroll. Liverpool acted swiftly to purchase the forward from Newcastle as a replacement for the outgoing Torres in January 2011, with Carroll’s club-record £35m signing confirmed on deadline day.

Carroll endured a challenging time at Liverpool, struggling to fill in for Torres. He managed to score just 11 goals in his two seasons for the Reds before leaving for West Ham in 2012.

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Getty ImagesPierre-Emerick Aubameyang | Arsenal | £56m

The Gunners had their eye on Gabon star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang for a while, but his move was only confirmed on deadline day 2018 – as Arsenal, along with Chelsea and Dortmund, were involved in a player merry-go-round. Arsenal wanted Aubameyang, but Dortmund couldn’t sell the player without having a replacement, who they identified in Chelsea’s Michy Batshuayi. The Blues, in turn, wanted to bring in Olivier Giroud from the Emirates, which rounded out the transfer triangle stand-off.

All three clubs finally confirmed all three deals on January 31 – Aubameyang to Arsenal, Batshuyai replacing him at Dortmund, and Giroud signing for Chelsea from Arsenal.

Football management is a demanding job and club boards can sometimes be quick to lose patience when things aren't going right

Getty Images18Sam Allardyce | Crystal Palace | 151 daysSam Allardyce's stint as England manager lasted just 67 days as he was forced to resign in disgrace following a scandal in September 2016. However, he managed to land another job just a couple of months later as he took the reins at Crystal Palace. He saved Palace from relegation but departed in May 2017 after 151 days.AdvertisementGetty Images17Howard WIlkinson | Sunderland | 151 daysHoward Wilkinson took the reins at Sunderland in late 2002 but the former Leeds United boss did not last very long and left the job after 151 days.Getty16Remi Garde | Aston Villa | 147 daysEx-France international Remi Garde had enjoyed a degree of success with Lyon before taking charge of Aston Villa in November 2015, but he could not replicate that at Villa Park. He departed in March 2016 with Villa at the bottom of the table after 147 days.ENJOYED THIS STORY?

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Getty Images15Chris Hutchings | Bradford City | 141 daysWhen Paul Jewell left Bradford City for Sheffield Wednesday in 2000, his assistant Chris Hutchings was promoted to the role of manager. However, his reign lasted only 21 games and he was sacked in November of that year.

Former Newcastle forward Nile Ranger has suggested he could have been as good as Erling Haaland had he eaten and behaved better as a youngster.

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Ranger was rising star at NewcastleEnded up in Championship and League OneSays he could have been like HaalandWHAT HAPPENED?

Ranger made a name for himself as a promising young player when he broke into the Newcastle first-team at the age of 18, the season they earned promotion to the Premier League.

His career did not go on the trajectory expected of him, however, and he ended up on loan in the Championship with Barnsley for half a season and then spent the remainder of the campaign in League One with Sheffield Wednesday. Since then, he has played for Swindon, Blackpool, Southend, Spalding and Boreham Wood.

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The attacker, now 32, says he had the talent to reach the top of the game and feels he shared many similarities with Manchester City star Haaland, who scored 52 goals to help fire Pep Guardiola's side to the European and English treble last season.

However, Ranger admits his behaviour and refusal to listen to the advice he was given early in his career hindered him.

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"There needs to be a movie on my life because it’s a real one, it’s an interesting one," he told "I have players coming to me saying: ‘What happened? What’s wrong with you? With your talent, what are you doing?’ I made my bed and now I have to lie in it. I feel frustrated. I know what I can do but it’s deeper than that because I’ve had so many chances. I didn’t take in the advice.

"I should be minimum Championship right now. I shouldn’t be having problems but I didn’t listen. If I added nutrition to my game and behaviour, I’m Haaland. But I didn’t want to listen. I thought I knew it all."

He continued: "Every club I’ve had, even as an adult, my mum has had to come in — because they respect her — to see if it could work as a last throw of the dice. She is my life coach, she’s probably disappointed deep down I didn’t really go higher… but she always says: ‘Listen, we had a blast, no matter what’."

Now a free agent since leaving Boreham Wood, he is eager to find a new club, adding: "I know I’m very good at football, people can play to 38 or 39. I can still play. I want to get back then I can climb. I’ve got to go and show what I can do or I’m going to get to an age where I can’t move. It catches up with you."

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The Englishman will continue his search for a new club as he looks to get back on the field before long.

Alastair Cook admitted to the “lowest moment” of his career as England slumped to Ashes defeat in Perth and said several members of his side would be “playing for their future” in the remaining two games of the series.

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‘Australia batted England into submission’

Alastair Cook admitted to the “lowest moment” of his career as England slumped to Ashes defeat in Perth and said several members of his side would be “playing for their future” in the remaining two games of the series.The England captain said conceding a 3-0 lead in the five-match series “hurts like hell” and described the dressing room as “a tough place to be”. It is Cook’s first series loss as captain and England’s first Ashes loss in four series stretching back to 2006-07.But while accepting that “inquests” into the defeat were inevitable, Cook appealed for calm before conclusions are made about the reasons for the loss. In particular, Cook was keen to defend Andy Flower and refuted any suggestion that the England coach should step down.”I want him to carry on,” Cook said. “He’s an outstanding coach and an outstanding person. He’s a great person to have around, especially for me, as a captain and the advice he gives me. It’s not down to him why we’ve lost this. It’s down to the fact we haven’t had enough players in form.”Cook, who has averaged just 26.93 in his last eight Tests against Australia, also reasserted his determination to continue as captain, though he accepted he needed to reflect on some of his tactics and that there would be “people questioning my place”.”There’s always going to be theories,” he said. “There’s always going to be inquests when you lose. The simple fact of the matter is we haven’t had enough players in form with either bat or ball. People in the dressing room know that.”It’s a tough place my batting. I’m putting the work in but not quite getting the results. You can see the feet aren’t always going in the right place. I’ve had a couple of very good balls as well, which doesn’t help. And when I have got in at Brisbane and here, I haven’t gone on to make a bigger score.Alastair Cook admitted that senior players hadn’t performed so far in this series and will be playing for their places in the rest of the series•Getty Images”But I don’t think the captaincy is affecting my batting. There’s always a strain, but the challenge of being a captain is trying to deal with it. I can honestly say that when I go out there as a batter, I’m thinking as a batter. My mind is not thinking about what’s going on elsewhere.”Of course, if other people who make the decisions don’t think that way, we have to go by that decision. When you lose the Ashes in the way we’ve lost, there will always be people questioning my place and all that kind of stuff. That’s the first place you always look when you lose. As a captain, the buck stops with you. I have to look at am I managing the players right? Am I doing the right things out in the middle? We have to have some honest chats.”Cook also defended his players, despite admitting that several senior figures had endured undistinguished series and that many would be playing for their futures in the remaining two games of the series.”The first thing you do when you lose is look at the hunger and the desire. I can honestly say in our dressing room, both are there. We just haven’t had the skills to match it. Sport is not about trying at all; it’s about delivering. We know we tried as hard as we could and we haven’t delivered.”It’s not just Anderson and Swann who haven’t performed. A lot of us senior batters haven’t performed as well. It’s incredibly frustrating – I know as a batter when you’re not delivering what you’re capable of – there’s not a worse place to be as a player.”I’ll never feel let down by any of the lads that go out there and put on an England shirt. I look into their eyes and I see what they do in training. The way they go about their business and the effort, you don’t see all that.”I’m never going to be embarrassed. We haven’t been good enough, that’s the reason we lost. I’ll never be embarrassed for the way we go about things and the effort the lads put in. It’s a hard thing to say when you’ve been beaten and you deserve to get beaten. It’s never good to admit it, but we have.”When you lose, or even when you win, there’s so many good players around in England wanting to be in the 11 spots we presently hold. So we are always playing for our future. There’s always a balancing act with sides when you lose with trying to introduce new players. Are they better than the players you have?”

A round-up of the Ranji Trophy Group A matches played on January 6, 2015

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ScorecardManoj Tiwary’s fifty led Bengal’s reply against Tamil Nadu•PTI Irfan Pathan made his comeback to first-class cricket by scoring 98 runs which helped lead Baroda to a strong score of 498. Baroda spinner Swapnil Singh’s also chipped in with a fifty on the second day in Lucknow. Uttar Pradesh’s steady reply was led by an unbeaten fifty from opener Tanmay Srivastava as they finished the day trailing by 395 runs.Baroda, 316 for 6 overnight, had Irfan on 15 and lost Penal Shah after he added only four runs to his overnight score. Swapnil joined Irfan with the score at 320 for 7 and they stitched a partnership of 139 runs to propel Baroda past 450. Playing a first-class match after more than a year, Irfan’s 98 featured 12 fours before he was bowled by Ali Murtaza. Swapnil went on to bat with the tail, scoring an unbeaten 73 with eight fours and three sixes. Murtaza took the last two wickets and finished with 4 for 103.UP’s opening stand of 49 was broken when Yusuf Pathan had Akash Verma caught for 12. However, Srivastava’s 69 not out, with Mukul Dagar, steered them to 103 for 1.
ScorecardPrasanna unlikely for rest of the match with injury

Tamil Nadu captain R Prasanna had to be stretchered off the field after colliding with Bengal’s Ashok Dinda at the non-striker’s end at Eden Gardens. Prasanna suffered a lower back injury and was straightaway taken to a hospital. Scans revealed he had a bulge in the disc. He is unlikely to play any further part in the match.

Manoj Tiwary’s unbeaten fifty led Bengal’s reply after Tamil Nadu lost their last four wickets for 38 runs on the second morning in Kolkata to be dismissed for 246. Bengal ended the day 63 runs behind TN after good starts from their top four batsmen who steered them to a solid 183 for 2.TN were 208 for 5 overnight but Ashok Dinda struck in the first over the of day to remove R Sathish. Laxmipathy Balaji’s 25-ball 2 kept the wickets at bay for nearly eight overs but medium-pacer Pritam Chakraborty’s two quick wickets reduced them to 228 for 8. TN were dented further when their captain R Prasanna retired hurt just after reaching his fifty, at the score of 236 and a run-out ended their innings in the 89th over. Dinda finished with 4 for 76.Bengal openers Rohan Banerjee and Arindam Das put on a solid opening stand of 74, which was broken by Balaji, when he trapped Arindam lbw for 48. Banerjee also fell seven overs later but Abhimanyu Easwaran (41*) and Tiwary (54*) put Bengal in a position of strength with an unbeaten stand of 81 runs.Karnataka v Jammu & Kashmir: Uthappa 156 powers Karnataka
Mumbai v Madhya Pradesh: Rawat, Jalaj Saxena lead MP’s fightback

A four-wicket haul from the seamer Shaheen Khan, followed by an unbeaten half-century from the opener Andrew Puttick powered Cape Cobras to a bonus-point victory against Knights in a rain-affected clash in Kimberley

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ScorecardFile photo: Rilee Rossouw’s fifty went in vain as Knights crashed to a big defeat•Gallo ImagesA four-wicket haul from the seamer Shaheen Khan, followed by an unbeaten half-century from the opener Andrew Puttick powered Cape Cobras to a bonus-point victory against Knights in a rain-affected clash in Kimberley.After the game was reduced to 48 overs per side following a rain delay, Knights, having been inserted, began their innings in shaky fashion, losing three wickets inside two overs. An 86-run stand between Rilee Rossouw (57) and Rudi Second (26) guided a brief recovery, but from 93 for 3, Knights once again collapsed, losing their last seven wickets for just 69 runs.Shaheen ran through Knights’ tail, taking three of the last four wickets on his way to collecting 4 for 38. Rory Kleinveldt took 3 for 28, while Zakhele Qwabe chipped in with 2 for 29 to bowl Knights out for 162 in 41 overs.Cobras lost Richard Levi in the first over of the chase, but Puttick stroked 12 fours during his 89 not out to drive the team towards a comfortable win. Cobras suffered two more wickets, but their captain Justin Ontong (47*) joined hands with Puttick for an unbroken 101-run partnership and the team raced home with almost 15 overs to spare.

USMNT stars Weston McKennie, Tyler Adams & Brenden Aaronson were present for a brutal defensive assessment from Sam Allardyce at Leeds last campaign.

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Whites struggled throughout 2022-23 campaignAmerican stars unable to steer them to safetyEx-England boss oversaw slide into the ChampionshipWHAT HAPPENED?

None of that trio are at Elland Road in 2023-24, with McKennie returning to Juventus at the end of his loan spell, while Adams has joined Bournemouth and Aaronson is spending the current campaign at Union Berlin. Their departures were sparked by relegation out of the Premier League, with Allardyce unable to pull off a great escape after taking in just four games at the helm.

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He inherited a squad that was stuck in a rut, and did not hold back when offering an opinion on those at his disposal during a brutal first squad meeting. Patrick Bamford has lifted the lid on that chat, telling the podcast: “Honestly, he was brilliant. We had a meeting, we're all sat there, he's come in, just walked in, just stood at the front with his cup of tea, and just basically told us we're sh*t at defending. Just told us we need to sort this out. And that's what he did. There was no beating around the bush.

"The lads who didn't really know much about him, in terms of they'd been playing abroad or are foreign lads, are a bit taken aback. But obviously us English lads, who even growing up have watched him as a manager, you know what he's like. We're just like 'this is brilliant'. Tell it to us how it is and we can deal with it. It was simplifying it and just going back to the basics, which obviously last year we weren’t very good at. So he had a job on his hands. He definitely got us tighter at the back and if he’d been there a little but longer, we would’ve been fine.”

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Leeds finished five points adrift of safety last season, with Allardyce picking up just one from the 12 available to him. United States international Adams, who captained his country at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, was among those unavailable to the vastly experienced former England boss through injury.

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Leeds have, following a mass summer clearout, moved on to Daniel Farke in the managerial department and are looking to bounce back into the Premier League at the first time of asking – with the Whites currently sat third in the Championship table.

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Derby County have announced the signing of Leicester’s Andy King on loan for the remainder of the season as Frank Lampard adds further experience to the ranks – the Rams previously signed Chelsea legend Ashley Cole on a free transfer in January.

The 30-year-old midfielder has a Premier League winner’s medal to his name having made 25 appearances for the Foxes in their dreamland 2015/16 campaign and will bring goals from midfield to his new side.

Having won the title under Claudio Ranieri three seasons ago, the 50-cap Wales international became the first player in the Premier League era to have been crowned champion in the top three divisions with the same club.

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King is expected to provide competition for Tom Huddlestone, Mason Mount and Harry Wilson and could have walked straight into the starting XI had the first of the aforementioned trio sealed a loan move to Udinese on deadline day. That deal fell through, though, and now he will have to work for a spot in Lampard’s midfield.

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India’s Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked the BCCI and all its 29 member units for details about the land and buildings occupied by them and the Commission will hear the matter on July 25 and 26

Jasvinder Sidhu24-Jul-2013India’s Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked the BCCI and all its 29 member units for details about the land and buildings occupied by them, including information on stadiums allotted by state governments, the annual rent paid by the BCCI, and its units and copies of lease deeds as part of their agreement. The Information Commissioner has constituted a full bench of the CIC to hear the case on July 25 and 26 in New Delhi.The CIC is a government body formed to effectively shed light on the working of India’s traditionally opaque public institutions by entertaining petitions from the public under the country’s relatively new Right to Information Act (RTI); a ruling earlier this month sought to bring political parties within its purview. Under the law, the Central and State Information Commissions have the same powers as a civil court.The CIC’s issuing of a notice to the BCCI is yet another step by the Indian government to establish the BCCI as a public body. The BCCI is currently registered as a private society. In its notice, dated July 10, the CIC has directed the BCCI and all of its affiliated units to attend the hearing either personally or through authorised representatives.The CIC’s deputy registrar K L Dass, who is the signatory on the notice to the BCCI, said: “The question here is whether the BCCI is a public authority or not and [to this end] the CIC wants to check if the BCCI is getting any government funding? This is why [the] CIC has asked the BCCI and its units to provide details.”The CIC has also instructed the BCCI and its member units to provide information regarding income tax, customs duty, entertainment tax exemptions, if any, for the last five years from the 2007-08 fiscal year. The full bench is also expected to examine the security expenses incurred by states government for organising cricket matches during the same period.The petitioner, Delhi resident Madhu Agrawal, says that bringing the BCCI under the RTI Act is a matter of national importance because the BCCI conducts cricket matches with various teams under their purview, and utilises facilities offered by the federal and state governments.Agrawal’s petition is a redrafted version of an existing petition filed by her husband Subhash Agrawal, a well-known RTI activist. That petition is pending before a one-member bench of the CIC. Agrawal told ESPNcricinfo that it was filed in his wife’s name because RTI rules give priority to petitions filed by women senior citizens – a full bench of the CIC is required to take up such cases “sooner than any other case.”The CIC has also been hearing a petition against the BCCI, following a 2005 case concerning its public function. The BCCI has submitted a copy of the Supreme Court’s judgment of 2005 in the Zee Telefilms v Union of India & others, which said the BCCI was not defined as a ‘state’. The BCCI also argued it didn’t take any financial help from the Indian Government. In February, 2011 though, the Supreme Court upheld a Kerala High Court decision and stated that officials of the Kerala Cricket Association are ‘public servants’.

Windward Islands captain Liam Sebastien said that his team will relish being tagged as underdogs ahead of their Nagico Super50 match against Jamaica

Renaldo Matadeen30-Jan-2014Windward Islands will be relishing their tags as underdogs despite coming into the Nagico Super50 as the defending champions, according to the captain Liam Sebastien. “We know we are the underdogs. Everyone pegs Jamaica as favorites over us tomorrow as it’s always been in the past,” Sebastien said. “We have been playing good cricket over the past few years with all due respect to the other Caribbean teams. We don’t fear anyone and we beat them (Jamaica) comfortably in the semis last year. They are missing players just like us so it will be a good match.”Sebastien also dismissed suggestions that the absence of the injured Darren Sammy and suspended Shane Shillingford would hamper the team, indicating that they won the title last year without Sammy and that the suspension of Shillingford was out of their hands.”We have to use their absences as a positive. We can’t harp on it or let it affect us negatively. It’s important for us to get off to a winning start tomorrow, especially in a short format like this where you put yourselves on the backfoot if you lose the first match and then you must win the next two games.”There’s no added pressure. We’re the team to beat. They (other teams) look at us as the lesser team but we’re not cocky and we’ll let our cricket out on the pitch do the talking for us.”Sebastien admitted that the weather was a concern but remained optimistic, especially as he believed that the grassy pitch at the Queen’s Park Oval would favour bounce and aid his bowling attack, which he deemed ‘adaptable’ and ‘versatile’ even if pitch conditions changed overnight.David Bernard, the captain of Jamaica, also expressed confidence in his bowlers doing well on the Oval pitch, which he described as more ‘dry than expected’. Sheldon Cottrell and the returning Jerome Taylor are expected to lead the charge for the team.”We must impose ourselves with the aim of winning. Starting off with a win will do well for our confidence and we don’t want to play catch-up cricket,” Bernard said. “We don’t take anybody lightly for for granted and we’ll be playing all our matches according to the surface.”Despite missing out on the services of Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels for the first few games, Bernard believed that his young team were more than good enough to cope without them, pointing to the likes of Nikita Miller, Jon-Ross Campbell and Horace Miller as the players he expected to make a step up.”Initially, Gayle wasn’t in the squad so we were preparing without him. He came in and then left again. We hope he and Marlon recover speedily but we have capable players. It’s irrelevant what Chris can do at this point as we have to play with what we have.”We cannot underestimate any team. We are a young talented bunch and I think we can win this. No matter who we are missing, we have a good bunch of players to make this work.”