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·1 December 2024
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It will cost Luton a lot of money to part company with Edwards should they decide a change is needed in the dugout
Luton Town would have to pay manager Rob Edwards a £1.5 million fee to part company with him, amid a poor run of form which sees the Bedfordshire outfit sit 19th in the Championship table.
It has been reported by Alan Nixon that the Hatters boss has a hefty severance fee in his contract, and it is one that could currently be putting the Kenilworth Road hierarchy off making a change in the dugout.
After being relegated from the Premier League last season, Luton have struggled to adapt to life back in the Championship and find themselves a mammoth 12 points adrift of the play-off places, while they're only three points above the bottom three.
A 4-2 defeat to Norwich City on Saturday prompted an angry reaction from Luton fans on social media, with the Hatters' faithful growing frustrated with the position their side find themselves in, particularly after tasting the Premier League last season.
They'll be disheartened to see this latest update after weeks of believing their sides' fortunes would turn around, only to see disappointment continue on the pitch with each passing week.
It's hard to believe that dismissing Edwards is even a topic of conversation after he was the man who guided them back to the Premier League and so nearly kept them there.
But their terrible start to the season has made that conversation a reality, but for Luton to appease what a chunk of their fanbase is asking for, Nixon reports that it will cost them a hefty £1.5m to do so.
Having just dropped out of the Premier League, you'd be forgiven for thinking that kind of money is small fry for Luton, but for a club who have notoriously struggled financially, that's a huge chunk of money to find.
That's largely due to the fact Edwards signed a new Kenilworth Road deal over the summer despite their relegation, with Luton now living to regret that as they'll have to pay him, and likely his staff, off if they're to recruit a new manager.
The elephant in the room as far as any managerial sacking goes is Mark Robins, whose departure from Coventry will almost certainly have caught the eye of a lot of clubs debating sacking their manager.
It seems as though Robins would be a shoo-in for any second tier job, and he would seemingly be a perfect fit for Luton, but this financial hurdle could see them miss out.
It's hard to think Robins will be on the market for long amid some intense Hull City interest, but if Luton could find the money to dismiss Edwards and they believed it was the right move for the club, they could have the hottest property on the unemployed manager's list.
Whether his availability forces Luton's hand remains to be seen, but one certainty is that Edwards isn't sitting comfortably in his job at the moment.
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