Luton fan mocks club with almost half the squad gone from official 2026 calendar – which is now reduced in sale!

Producing an official club calendar comes with an obvious risk for football clubs, as Luton Town have discovered with nearly half of the players featured having left a month into 2026.

The League One side have been attempted to reshape their squad during the January transfer window as they bid to boost their play-off hopes.

It is the first transfer window since Jack Wilshere’s appointment as manager, with the former England and Arsenal star taking charge in October, with Luton hoping to secure promotion after back-to-back relegations.

Luton, who are six points off the League One play-off places, have allowed two players to leave permanently and 10 to depart on loan during the window.

With the number of departures increasing at the window draw towards a close, one fan highlighted how it was playing havoc with the clubs 2026 calendar. 

‘Luton’s 2026 calendar is 31 days old and already 5 out of 12 players aren’t currently at the club,’ the fan wrote, adding circus and clown emojis.

Luton have been attempting to reshape their squad under manager Jack Wilshere

The comment followed confirmation that Jerry Yates had joined Sheffield Wednesday on loan until the end of the season over the weekend.

Yates joined Millenic Alli, Lasse Nordas, Zack Nelson and Joe Gbode in leaving Luton during the window.

Alli and Nordas have joined Portsmouth and Heerenveen respectively, while Nelson and Gbode signed for AFC Wimbledon and Woking.

The players were chosen as cover stars for May, July, August, October and December.

With the quintet having only departed on loans until the end of the season, there remains the prospect that four of those could yet be back at the club for their respective months on the calendar.

While the club work on deadline day transfers, fans could yet get a deal of their own with the 2026 Luton calendar listed for on sale for £5 on the club’s website.

Luton are far from the first team to have seen their calendar impacted by transfer activity in recent years.

Luton’s 2026 calendar is currently listed for a sale price of £5 on the club’s website

Leeds were mocked ahead of the 2024-25 season after their cover stars Georginio Rutter, Archie Gray and Crysensio Summerville had all moved to Premier League clubs during the summer transfer window.

Last summer, Matheus Cunha appeared as the cover star for Wolves for June, with fans turning over a day after the Brazilian completed a £62.5m move to Man United. 

Luton’s chairman David Wilkinson had addressed the club’s transfer business on the weekend in the club’s programme, ahead of their 1-0 win over Blackpool.

‘It is, of course, Jack’s first window and he is involved in every part of the process, along with the recruitment committee and other members of the coaching staff, especially Chris. Since the summer window, we’ve changed manager, and with that, there has been a transition in style of play, which Jack naturally wants to recruit players for,’ Wilkinson wrote.

‘Every manager is going to have his own views on how players fit into their system, and while there have been undoubted successes in players who were recruited to play under the two previous managers, some are just not suited to how Jack wants his team to play and it is better for their development to move elsewhere to play regular football, even if it is temporarily. 

‘That doesn’t make them bad players, or poor signings, and their time may come again with us, or build their value resulting in that re-investment into the squad.

‘Milli Alli has started well at Portsmouth, and Ethon Archer and Zack Nelson have chosen to join fellow League One clubs where they could hurt some of the teams around us, because we know their quality.

‘Lasse Nordas is gaining great experience in the Dutch top-flight, while Joe Gbode could only move to a National League club domestically because he’d already played in the EFL for Gillingham and ourselves this season – a move he wanted to play more football. Joe could end up playing at Wembley twice if he impacts Woking’s season positively, and we wish all of our boys well out on their loans.’