Luton boss will use the loan market again despite Blades recalling Welsh international Norrington-Davies

Town manager Nathan Jones hasn’t ruled out bringing in another loan player despite seeing Rhys Norrington-Davies recalled by Sheffield United yesterday.

The full back had been due to remain at Kenilworth Road for the entire season, but despite receiving repeated assurances from Blades boss Chris Wilder that would be the case, the 21-year-old went back to Bramall Lane, moving to Stoke City later in the day.

With Jones confirming he is looking to bolster his defence due to Norrington-Davies’ exit, he will use the loan market again if necessary, even after his experience this week.

He said: “Our stance on loan signings is always the same, because we have a real belief here that we do good work.

“We have a belief that we move people forward, those who join us and trust us and buy into everything, invariably move forward.

“Those who stay longer with us move forward at a real rate and then there comes a time when either they move quicker than us or we move quicker than them, or we move at the same rate and we move along together

“In terms of JJ (James Justin) and Jack Stacey for example, as we’ve got a good record with full backs, they moved quicker than us really as they got to a level where they got to be Premier League players, no problem we move on and they're doing fantastically well.

“Someone like for example and I don't like naming names, but Isaac Vassell, jumped too quickly from us and those are the things.

“So when we take loans, we know that when we enhance them and make them better, we’re not doing it for our own benefit, we're doing it for someone else.

“We like to take not gambles, but calculated gambles.

"We get them in, they’re our player and if they move quicker than us, we make money, put it back into the club and that's why we've got a fantastic board.

“But it won’t change our stance on loans as we don't like doing it, categorically, but if we feel that the player is worth it, because they add something, then we’ll take loans.”

Town have benefited from some excellent loan signings in recent years, with Cameron Carter-Vickers a prime example from last term, the Spurs defender playing a massive part in the club’s successful fight against relegation.

This term they have brought in Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall from Leicester City who has also starred, ensuring Jones wasn’t too bitter about one deal that hasn’t worked out, as he continued: “Everyone takes loan signings, they're a means to an end to give you a little bit more quality, give you a push, but you know they're not your player.

"Sometimes we take one thinking we can make the loan permanent, but generally we like to assemble our own squad that’s ours, that is very settled and they are ours then.

"It's very difficult with the loan signings as well, exceptional ones, and we have an exceptional one here with Kiernan, that buys into everything we want to do, that wants to improve and it really means something to him.

"So it’s unfair to say every loan is the same.”

Luton came up against a QPR side last night who had been bolstered by a loan addition of their own in strike Charlie Austin, who has huge Premier League experience behind him.

Jones knows that he won’t be able to compete on that scale during the January window, but wasn’t worried by that, saying: “Charlie’s been there before, so he’s known and Tony Fernandes (majority shareholder) knows him.

“We can’t go out and spend that, we know that, but we’re not bitching about it, it’s the league we’re in.

“At times how we play and the energy we show and the way we go after teams, not everyone wants to do that.

"I’ve been at a club (Stoke City) where I had the biggest budget in history, and not every player wanted to go out and do that on a daily basis.

“So money doesn't give you everything, we know that we’re competing in a league where financially we can’t compete, but that's why we have the work, the structure and the processes that we have and we’re very proud of those.”