Newcastle United are attempting to avoid relegation with a January spending spree.

Andros Townsend, Jonjo Shelvey and Henri Saivet were bought for a combined cost of £29 million.

The total spent by Bundesliga clubs so far is just £25.8 million, with Jonas Hofmann's £8 million move from Borussia Dortmund to Borussia Monchengladbach the biggest deal of the German window at this point.