Crewe Alex: Arsenal's Ryan Alebiosu, Chelsea's Tariq Uwakwe and Oxford's Dan Agyei all sign

Crewe's new signings Ryan Alebiosu (left), Tariq Uwakwe and Dan Agyei (right)

Crewe Alexandra have completed three new signings in a day ahead of Monday's close of the transfer window.

Right-back Ryan Alebiosu, 20, has joined on loan from Arsenal until the end of the season.

Midfielder Tariq Uwakwe, 22, has joined from Chelsea on an 18-month contract.

The League One side then signed 24-year-old striker Dan Agyei late in the day from fellow League One side Oxford United for an undisclosed fee.

Alebiosu, who made the Arsenal bench for last weekend's Premier League match with Burnley, is free to face promotion chasing Rotherham United on Saturday, but it is not yet clear whether Uwakwe and Agyei have signed in time to feature.

Crewe were unsuccessful in a move to complete the signing of former Liverpool trainee Yan Dhanda from Swansea City.

David Artell's Crewe, who lie 22nd in League One, six points adrift of safety, entered the final week of the January window having not previously made a signing.

But, following the sales of Owen Dale to Blackpool and defender Callum McFadzean to non-league Wrexham, the Alex have now brought in four players in little more than 24 hours, starting with German striker Bassala Sambou from Dutch side Fortuna Sittard, on an 18-month deal.

Uwakwe went out on loan last season, making 15 league appearances for Accrington, where he scored four goals in his first two games after hitting an EFL Trophy hat-trick on his debut against Leeds United Under-21s.

He also scored in the EFL Trophy this season, in his one appearance for Chelsea Under-21s, at Forest Green.

Londoner Agyei, who began his career at Wimbledon, signed for Burnley in 2015 and had loan spells at Coventry City, Walsall and Blackpool.

He signed in the summer of 2019 for Oxford, for whom he has scored 11 goals, mostly coming off the bench.