Premier League: Survival or relegation, Luton will continue to grow, says Edwards

Luton Town have the prospect to climb out of the Premier League’s relegation zone when it travels to Burnley in a match of big significance for either side of their struggle for survival on Friday.

It is the kind of conflict that exams the nerve of managers on the fallacious finish of the desk, however Luton’s Rob Edwards is managing to stay comparatively relaxed regardless of what’s at stake.

Luton has earned admirers within the membership’s first top-flight season for greater than 30 years and whereas Edwards admits it’s contact and go whether or not it survives, he says the membership’s future is vivid.

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“We’ve got to look at where we’ve come from. We can compete and we just do things our way,” Edwards, whose aspect will transfer above Seventeenth-placed Everton with a win, advised a news convention.

“If, and it’s a big if, if we can stay at this level and keep competing for a long time, then we’ll be in a better position to keep building and growing.”

But he insists relegation could be no catastrophe.

“This is our first year in the Premier League, we’re never going to be able to go out and match other clubs,” he stated.

“But that doesn’t mean we can’t sign good players and we’ve got other good players in the building as well.

“We’re in the process of achieving something and that’s a long term thing. This club will continue to grow whatever happens this year because there is a really good plan with brilliant people running the club.

“We’re not going to be forced into sales or people losing jobs if the worst was to happen and we go down. We’ll continue to build and grow and get better.”

Striker Carlton Morris is match after struggling some cramping in Luton’s FA Cup third spherical match towards Bolton Wanderers, though Jacob Brown is suspended and captain Tom Lockyer and Marvelous Nakamba are each nonetheless unavailable.

Burnley is nineteenth with 11 factors, 4 behind fellow promoted membership Luton, and defeat could be a large blow to its survival hopes, however supervisor Vincent Kompany performed down the strain.

“I’d hope that we like pressure, we like to be in a pressured environment,” he stated. “What club are you if you don’t want pressure? This year is the same type of pressure (as the Championship), being able to stay in the league.”