Sam Alabi

Defensive Midfielder - Newcastle United
8 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sam Alabi

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The Newcastle United Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A brace, and Jacob Ramsey takes the afternoon — 8.44

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jacob Ramsey provided it, and the 8.44 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Joelinton falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Tempers go at Newcastle United

Tino Livramento was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Jacob Ramsey sends Newcastle United past West Ham United

It finished 2‑0, and it was Jacob Ramsey’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Newcastle United.

Squad

A smaller club would suit Nick Pope now

He has had enough of the noise. Whether Newcastle United can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.

The dugout

A satisfied Jason Harris

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Jason Harris could afford to be generous.

The dugout

Newcastle United pick somebody else ahead of Dan Burn

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad

Sam Alabi, 17, gets his chance

Off the academy pitches and onto a senior team sheet at 17. The debut is the easy part; the second appearance is the one every young player has to earn.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Fabian Schär

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 12 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief