{"id":668480,"date":"2026-07-01T19:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668480\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:27:11","slug":"elijah-adebayo-forward-leaves-luton-town-after-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668480\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Adebayo: Forward leaves Luton Town after five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luton Town have announced the departure of forward Elijah Adebayo after more than five years at Kenilworth Road during which time he helped the Hatters win promotion to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old joined Luton from Walsall for an undisclosed fee in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/55896442\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 2021<\/a> and went on to make 184 appearances for the club in all competitions, scoring 47 goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adebayo scored 10 goals in 27 Premier League games for Luton in the 2023-24 season but, after successive relegations into League One, the former Fulham youngster suffered serious injury setbacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A cruciate ligament injury sustained in April 2025 kept him out of action until March this year and a hip problem picked up in the second game of his return ended his season as Luton narrowly missed out on the League One play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite announcing he was in talks to sign a new contract when releasing their retained list <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutontown.co.uk\/news\/2026\/may\/8\/luton-town-retained-and-released-list-2026\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in May,, external<\/a> Luton have now confirmed Adebayo is leaving for pastures new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luton Town have announced the departure of forward Elijah Adebayo after more than five years at Kenilworth Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}