Wilshere admits his transfer window plans for the Hatters are constantly changing

Luton boss Jack Wilshere has admitted his plans for the January transfer window are constantly changing due to the way the Hatters have been playing over the Christmas period.

Town, like the rest of the teams up and down the footballing pyramid, will soon have a month in which to bolster their squads, clubs allowed to do business from Thursday, January 1, to 7pm on Monday, February 2 when the deadline passes. Chief executive Gary Sweet recently spoke about how ‘integral’ meetings have been taking place recently with both Wilshere and assistant boss Chris Powell to firm up the kind of targets they have in mind to give themselves every chance of promotion back to a Championship they were in last season, before suffering a second successive relegation into the third tier.

Back in the summer, Luton, who made 14 additions and saw 11 go the other way, only registered a 20-man squad, meaning they already have two free spaces available in which to strengthen without having to let anyone go. That could become three if midfielder Shandon Baptiste isn’t included following his season-ending ACL injury, but with the Hatters picking up back-to-back wins in their two festive matches, scoring seven goals and conceding none, while with players like Joe Johnson stepping up after the injury to Kal Naismith and Reuell Walters back too, Wilshere now faces something of a dilemma.

Asked whether his plans have been altered, speaking to Three Counties Radio, Wilshere said: “It's really hard as of course we've had meetings, of course we're thinking about it, but it changes every day because of an injury or because of someone's form. JJ's come in and done really well at full back, so things like that, you give players an opportunity and they take it. I think it will be like that until we get to the window and sit down, maybe one or two will leave and we see what we have to get in, but I want people to know that I am really happy with the players that we have, and how they are trying to do what we want them to do.

"I think they've improved so much with it. We went through a sticky spell where results weren't good enough, performances weren't good enough, but when you work the way we do and we have processes, it's clear what it is, you can teach the players that, you can develop them within that and we have. So it’s a tricky question to answer and one that will probably reveal itself more when it actually opens.”