John Barnes

Right Forward - Luton Town U18
18 Jan 2027
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The Luton Town Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alejandro Pozo

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces

Luton Town sell a favourite for $3.5M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Joe Johnson was one of the reasons people came, and $3.5M does not replace that by itself.

Market

Luton Town sell Joe Johnson for $3.5M

Joe Johnson has left for Reading in a $3.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Luton Town turn down FC Nantes for Josh Keeley

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Luton Town walk away from Hákon Rafn Valdimarsson

$1.2M was the most the club would pay and Brentford were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Boardroom

Luton Town go back to the board over Hákon Rafn Valdimarsson

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.3M — a club that wants Hákon Rafn Valdimarsson enough to be asked twice.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Luton Town

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Tempers go at Luton Town

Alejandro Pozo 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.

Transfer targets

Newcastle United tell Luton Town: Bazoumana Touré is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief