Luton have signed Andros Townsend on a short-term contract until January. The 32-year-old winger was released by Everton last summer and has not played since March 2022 due to an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
“Luton are my local team – I live 20-25 minutes away so I’ve kept my eye on their progress and watching the Championship playoff final and see them win promotion was great for the club,” said Townsend. “I never thought I’d pull on the Luton shirt, so it’s a huge honour to play again in the Premier League for this club and hopefully help this club get as many points as we can and see where it takes us.”
Townsend has made a made a total of 264 Premier League appearances, also featuring for Tottenham, Newcastle and Crystal Palace. He also won 13 caps for England.
“He’s been brilliant and his attitude has been phenomenal,” said the Luton manager, Rob Edwards. “He’s a humble, hard-working individual that we will benefit from having at the training ground on a weekly basis. Young players are going to look up to him and think ‘they are the standards I need to be at’.
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“Of course, he has had a difficult period with injury through no fault of his own and we wouldn’t be able to sign him if he’d had played in the last 18 months.”
