Mads Andersen

Central Defender - Luton Town
30 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Mads Andersen

7 Edition

The Luton Town Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Isaiah Jones

Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Luton Town turn down Chesterfield for Sverre Sandal

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

Squad

Isaiah Jones in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Luton Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Kasey Palmer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Josh Keeley

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Reuell Walters

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Nahki Wells dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Mamadou Sarr

Marked 4.95, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

Match

Point won or two lost for Luton Town?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Doncaster Rovers? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

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The Luton Town Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Isaiah Jones runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Gideon Kumar at 21 — 7.76

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gideon Kumar did not need any: 7.76, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Isaiah Jones in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Luton Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Kasey Palmer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Luton Town see off Lincoln City

Three points for Luton Town, 2‑1 the final word against Lincoln City in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Gideon Kumar

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Kasey Palmer at his very best

Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Luton Town.

Squad

No hiding place for Kyle Bartley

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kyle Bartley, and the manager let it.

Squad

Luton Town lose Dylan Stitt

30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

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The Luton Town Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Elijah Adebayo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Elijah Adebayo and Luton Town agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Luton Town

Isaiah Jones 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.

Squad

Words at Luton Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kasey Palmer is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

James Shea attracts admirers

The name of James Shea has come up in conversations Luton Town were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market

Mads Andersen is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Luton Town has been clear about where Mads Andersen stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

6 new faces, and Luton Town are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief