Tom Atcheson

Central Defender - Luton Town
30 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process

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The Luton Town Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Luton Town make their move for Jordan Morris

$5.7M on the table at Seattle Sounders. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Luton Town rebuffed over Bongokuhle Hlongwane

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Minnesota United FC have kept their man, and Luton Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Luton Town — 7.88

1 for Shandon Baptiste, marked 7.88, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

A falling-out at Luton Town

Kellen Fisher and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Luton Town caught on 91 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Mansfield Town scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Adam Mayor is in the works

Luton Town have made the call to Millwall. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Match

Shandon Baptiste rescues a point for Luton Town

It needed Shandon Baptiste to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Mansfield Town, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Jason Murray chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

Squad

Tom Atcheson is a square peg at Luton Town

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief