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Liverpool have invited the Crewe midfielder Gareth Whalley to Anfield for a trial with a view to a pounds 1.5m transfer.

Andy Ritchie, the former Oldham and Manchester United striker who is now playing for Scarborough, has applied for the vacant manager's job at Oldham.

The West Ham striker Steve Jones has completed a pounds 400,000 move to Charlton Athletic.

Raith Rovers were yesterday fined pounds 10,000 by the Scottish League management committee in Glasgow after breaking League rules for the second month running by including three Scandinavian trialists against Dunfermline in November when the rules allow only two.