Luton boss Rob Edwards is confident the club will “continue to grow whatever happens this year” as they look forward to a crunch relegation battle at Burnley tomorrow night.
The Hatters head to Turf Moor in the bottom three but only a point behind Everton, and with a game in hand, having won two of their last three Premier League games.
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They also appear to be a club trending in the right direction having risen from the National League to the Premier League inside nine years, a point emphasised by Edwards, who said: “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.”
That pragmatic approach means Luton are unlikely to spend heavily in the January transfer window in a bid to pull themselves out of rouble.
Edwards added: “We’ve got to look at where we’ve come from. We can compete and we just do things our way.
“If, and it’s a big 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 this is our first year in the Premier League, we’re never going to be able to go out and match other clubs. But that doesn’t mean we can’t sign good players and we’ve got other good players in the building as well.”
Burnley are four points behind Luton, giving the visitors the chance to put some distance between themselves and the bottom two tomorrow, and Edwards has very few injury worries to contend with.
“Carlton Morris is in contention to play. He was cramping up a little bit against Bolton, but that’s all fine,” he said.
“Jacob Brown was suspended anyway for this one. He was feeling his knee before the Bolton game but he’ll be fit for our next one.
“Apart from that, excluding Marvelous Nakamba and Tom Lockyer, we’ve got a decent team to go up there.”
