{"id":579065,"date":"2021-01-15T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T20:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=579065"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:54:25","slug":"luton-town-complete-signing-of-kal-naismith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/15\/luton-town-complete-signing-of-kal-naismith\/","title":{"rendered":"Luton Town Complete Signing of Kal Naismith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/08\/nottingham-forest-nicholas-ioannou-loan\/\" target=\"_self\">Luton Town<\/a> have officially completed the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/d3ccb0ea\/Kal-Naismith\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kal Naismith<\/a>. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/11\/wigan-athletic-sign-tendayi-darikwa\/\" target=\"_self\">Wigan Athletic<\/a> man joins as a free agent having departed Wigan earlier this month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 28-year-old will be hoping to make an instant impact in his first game against third-placed Bournemouth. Luton will undoubtedly be the underdogs but, with the addition of the versatile Naismith, a shock could be on the cards.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Luton Complete Naismith Signing\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\udd1d \ud835\ude52\ud835\ude40\ud835\ude47\ud835\ude3e\ud835\ude4a\ud835\ude48\ud835\ude40 \ud835\ude46\ud835\ude3c\ud835\ude47!<\/p>\n<p>The Hatters have completed the signing of Kal Naismith following his departure from Wigan Athletic earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/alIRLZDGaz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/alIRLZDGaz<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COYH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#COYH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0yBAsJ6hZv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/0yBAsJ6hZv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @LutonTown (@LutonTown) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LutonTown\/status\/1350156121911275522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Naismith &#8216;Delighted&#8217; With Move<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Speaking to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutontown.co.uk\/news\/2021\/january\/kal-naismith\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Luton Town&#8217;s official website<\/a>, Naismith expressed his delight at signing for the club, saying: \u201cI\u2019m excited to meet the lads and I\u2019m delighted I\u2019m here, looking forward to getting started.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI loved my time at Wigan and I\u2019m very grateful for the opportunity that the club gave me to go and play Championship football. There were some great lads and staff members, it was excellent for me and my career, but I\u2019m looking forward to the next step now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIt has been a tough few months and I\u2019m just looking forward to getting back into that environment with the lads and back in the Championship, which is a great league.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIt\u2019s a challenging league and obviously Luton are doing well. I\u2019m looking forward to joining the lads and hopefully keep doing as well as they are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Manager Nathan Jones also shared his delight of the move, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutontown.co.uk\/news\/2021\/january\/kal-naismith\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a>: \u201cKal is a real good fit for us. He\u2019s played against us many times over the years and he\u2019s one that we tried to get in the summer. It wasn\u2019t possible then, but we are delighted to get him in now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cPosition wise, we\u2019ve brought him in as a left-sided player but we know that he is so versatile. He\u2019s played left wing, wide right, up front, left-back, left centre-half \u2013 so he gives us real options and ticks a lot of boxes with his experience and character.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe signed a lot of younger players in the close season that we will develop and make better. Kal is a real good age, one that we believe is Championship-ready, and you have to have a blend of both.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"HGmP1MbkQdBvpaau30CA1Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1272773348\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'HGmP1MbkQdBvpaau30CA1Q',sig:'WfLX_IsyClBLNmPkWz8WKVxeOb_u9Gm9p4-P2iwsJnk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1272773348',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luton Town have officially completed the signing of Kal Naismith. The former Wigan Athletic man joins as a free agent having departed Wigan earlier this month.\u00a0 The 28-year-old will be hoping to make an instant impact in his first game against third-placed Bournemouth. Luton will undoubtedly be the underdogs but, with the addition of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":579067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32,28],"tags":[6862,168,657,1301,917,6861,136],"class_list":["post-579065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-championship","category-league-football","category-transfers","tag-2020-21-championship","tag-efl","tag-efl-league-one","tag-football-transfers","tag-kal-naismith","tag-wigan-ahtletic","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666714,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579065\/revisions\/666714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}