Ivan Benjamin Elijah Toney is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Championship club Brentford. Toney began his career at Northampton Town before joining Newcastle United in 2015. He spent the 2016–17 season split between two loans at Shrewsbury Town and Scunthorpe United. In 2018, he joined Peterborough for an undisclosed fee.
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Ivan Benjamin Elijah Toney is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Championship club Brentford. Toney began his career at Northampton Town before joining Newcastle United in 2015. He spent the 2016–17 season split between two loans at League One clubs Shrewsbury Town and Scunthorpe United, and the following year at Wigan Athletic. In 2018, he joined Peterborough for an undisclosed fee. He has also had spells on loan at Barnsley, Millwall, Wigan and Wrexham. He is currently on a season-long loan at League Two club Ipswich Town until the end of the 2015-16 season. He was released by Peterborough in the summer of 2018. He made his debut for Northampton in 2012 at the age of 16, and scored 13 goals in 60 matches. He also scored four goals in the FA Youth Cup, in a 5–0 win over York City.
In November 2014, Toney was close to a transfer to Wolverhampton Wanderers, which collapsed due to an undisclosed medical issue. In August 2015, he signed for Newcastle United on a long-term contract. He scored two goals in a 3–2 win away to Wolves in the first round of the League Cup in August 2014. On 26 September, he played his first league match for Newcastle, as an 85th-minute substitute for Aleksandar Mitrović in a 2–2 home draw against Chelsea. On 3 May, he scored a header as Northampton defeated Oxford United 3–1 at home to avoid relegation to the Conference Premier on the final day of the season. On 5 December, he also converted his attempt as they won in the subsequent penalty shoot-out.
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