Jul 8
Nigel Adkins continues to get the band back together, some would say Lee Bowyer’s band, but the additions of Adam Matthews and Akin Famewo are both welcome.
Adam Matthews signed on for a year, whilst Akin Famewo joined on a season long loan, with an option of a permanent move next summer. The 22-year old has a Norwich contract until June 2023.
Please click for moreI have been a bit of an apostle for young players being loaned back to us after we’d flogged them in the past…. have we ever done that by the way?
It seems that Thomas and Steve Gallen have been negotiating hard with clubs over Alfie Doughty to a) get the best instant price b) the most attractive sell-on fee and c) allow him to see out the season with us after he regains fitness.
The salary cap is an annoyance isn’t it. The first time since our promotion from League One under the spiffs have we got a few bob to spend and we can’t spend it.
January transfer window activity is notoriously hard, even before the current EFL restriction and in the wider context of what the pandemic has brought, but I do foresee Thomas pushing through a fair bit of January turnover.
A much needed central defender joined the club this morning. Left footed 21-year old Akin Famewo has signed on a season long loan from Norwich City, the second signing for Lee Bowyer and Steve Gallen since Thomas Sandgaard bought the club yesterday.
Famewo was born in Lewisham and was in Luton’s academy from the age of 10. The Hatters sold him to Norwich City during the January 2019 transfer window.
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