Luton Town possess scary threat that most of League One should worry about | OneFootball

Luton Town have an abundance of attacking talent in League One after this summer's transfer window.

Following back-to-back relegations from the Premier League and back down to League One, Luton Town are still reeling from what has been a remarkable decade and a half or so, and it could yet continue with another promotion this season.

In the 2000/01 season, Luton Town were relegated from the then Second Division down into the Third Division, which was the fourth-tier of English football at the time. Including that campaign and last season, Luton have completed 25 seasons in English football.

In those 25 seasons, the Hatters have been relegated on six occasions, including two in the last two years, and they have been promoted six occasions, with a further six campaigns ending in failed play-off efforts.

They have gone from the Championship to non-league in successive seasons, from non-league football to the top-flight in nine years and then back down from the top-flight to League One in a couple of years.

Perhaps no team have yo-yo’d through the pyramid as much as Luton have, and the Bedfordshire-based outfit should strap themselves in for further drama, with the squad assembled by Town for this squad simply way too good for League One – especially in attack.

Luton boast far too good of an attack for League One

As a result of being relegated from the Championship, Luton have been forced into quite a few sales of key talents, most recently the likes of Mark McGuinness and Tahith Chong to Sheffield United.

That has followed on from Carlton Morris being sold to Derby County, as well as Thelo Aaagaard to Rangers and Alfie Doughty to Millwall, whilst both Thomas Kaminski and Reece Burke joining Charlton Athletic to link up with Amari’i Bell, who moved to The Valley on a free transfer.

That many crucial first-team departures should have reasonably left any squad in a bit of a state but, such has been the impressive recruitment of Luton over recent seasons, they remain chock full of stars for the level.

In the striking department, Jerry Yates has been brought in from Swansea City. Last season, Yates hit double figures for Derby County in the Championship. He has previously scored 20 in a season for Blackpool in League One.

As well as Yates, there is Elijah Adebayo, who scored double figures for the club in their season in the Premier League. There is also Nahki Wells, a seasoned EFL poacher, Lasse Nordas, a relatively big money signing from Tromso in January who is now beginning to find his feet, and Jacob Brown, again a player who was signed for Luton to play in the top-flight.

In behind that, they also have Millenic Alli, who arrived from Exeter City in the winter and was excellent for Town in the Championship, whilst Gideon Kodua and Isaiah Jones are also players of pedigree competing for spots out-wide.

On deadline day, the club spent £300,000 to bring in Joe Gbode from Gillingham and also signed Shayden Morris from Aberdeen for a hefty fee to compete for forward positions, whilst Iraq international striker Ali Al-Hamadi, who scored four goals in 14 games to help Ipswich Town gain promotion to the Premier League, has arrived on loan.

Matt Bloomfield should be the man to make things work

In the first-half of last season, Wycombe Wanderers were setting the pace in a League One that eventually saw Birmingham City set the all-time points record.

Matt Bloomfield had cultivated a style of football that was energetic and extremely entertaining to watch, with the Chairboys perpetually on the front foot and occasionally racking up goals.

What Wycombe did have was enormous depth in their squad, not the same level of quality as to what Luton have at their disposal, but Bloomfield’s ability to rotate and ensure everyone was kept happy, whilst maintaining a ruthlessness and attacking intensity in the final third, will make Luton supporters very confident he can create a side that should cause havoc in League One.

Having that much depth can often be overrated as there are only 11 players on the field but, frankly, it is a level of quality that could even rival what Birmingham had at their disposal last season.

Luton have to find the right system and formula to be consistently better than their opponents in-game, but the attacking quality that Bloomfield has at his disposal makes them a very worrying proposition for the rest of the division.