Rob Edwards: No need to sell any players, says Luton boss

“I feel we’re in a better position now than we were going into the Premier League season. We did a lot of recruitment last season, we evolved as a team and we’ve got a really strong identity now, I know where I want us to be,” he said.

“I want us to play exciting, quick football, aggressive football, I want us to score goals and we saw that a lot last year. This year, I want to try and have that and win games. That’s going to be our challenge now.

“We know we can do it because we’ve done it before. That doesn’t mean we can just turn up and it’s going to be easy and everyone knows that. We’ve all got our heads screwed on.

“The Championship is tough. There’s a lot of good teams, a lot of good coaches but we’re in good shape and want to give it our best and do it in a different way perhaps than we did last time.”

The only signings so far have been former Brentford midfielder Shandon Baptiste and 19-year-old defender Reuell Walters from Arsenal, who will go straight into the senior squad but Edwards ruled out “loads coming in”.

“If we need to, there’s money there we can spend,” he added. “Not many clubs can say that at the moment.

“We’ll always be astute and try do things sensibly but are working on one or two things behind the scenes to strengthen.”