Striker Elijah Adebayo has become the latest player to sign a contract extension with Luton following the club’s promotion to the Premier League last season.
The 25-year-old arrived at Kenilworth Road in January 2021 for an undisclosed fee from Walsall, scoring five goals in his first 18 Championship outings.
He then had an excellent maiden full season in the second tier, top-scoring for Town with 17 goals in 42 matches, as his injury in the latter stages of the campaign severely hampered Luton’s bid to make it into the play-off final, beaten 2-1 on aggregate by Huddersfield Town, Adebayo hobbling off the bench in the closing stages of the second leg.
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Adebayo has now scored 32 times in 109 appearances, as speaking to the club’s official website following his return to pre-season training last week, he said: “Obviously spirits are high after what happened at the back end of last season, I had a lovely time away, but I think everyone’s excited to be back to kick-off the new campaign.
My time off was enjoyable, we had the promotion party with the boys which everyone enjoyed and then went away and had a few more relaxing holidays.
“I’ve been back in England for the last couple of weeks and at the training ground as well to try and get ahead.
“It’s good to see everyone here and we all will be trying to fight for a place in the squad.
“The pre-season games are really important to get the minutes, get the fitness levels right, we know we’ve got to be right at it.
“It’s going to be an even tougher league this year than it was last year, so it’s just about getting what you can out of the pre-season games.
“I’m sure we’ll be doing some extras, whatever minutes we play, do some extra runs to make sure you are topping ourselves up and hopefully everyone will be ready in August.”
Adebayo, who joins Tom Lockyer, Luke Berry,bout making sure I’m in the right frame of mind, we all are, body-wise and mentally for the start of the season
