Luton manager Rob Edwards hopes Carlton Morris can be the next in a line of Championship strikers that have stepped up to prove themselves in the Premier League after the hotshot penned a new long-term contract extension.
The 27-year-old only signed for the Hatters last summer from Barnsley, becoming their club-record signing, but the £1.3million fee appeared a snip as he fired 20 goals in Town’s promotion campaign.
That was nine more than his previous season’s best and a tally that hadn’t been reached by a Town player in the second tier for 41 years.
His team-mates voted him joint Players’ Player of the Year alongside Tom Lockyer as a result and his latest reward has been a new long-term deal to take into his debut Premier League campaign.
There he’ll have a chance to follow in the footsteps of goalscorers like Brentford’s Ivan Toney and Leicester’s Jamie Vardy who are just two forwards to have made the step up from the second tier.
Edwards said: “He’s got great experience now, but he’s a good age, someone who is really hungry, and he deserves the opportunity now to have a go in the Premier League.
“If you look over the last ten years-plus, there have been a lot of strikers that have done well in the Championship, stepped up and then have gone and done well in the Premier League as well, and let’s hope Carlton is one of them.”
But it isn’t just his prowess in front of goal that has his manager purring as Edwards told the club’s website: “We’re so pleased to get someone as important to us as Carlton signed on for even longer. He’s a brilliant person to have in our squad,” the Town chief.
“His goals were influential last season, but whenever I spoke about him or was asked about him, it was his all-round game and what he brought to the team, whether it was hold-up play, work-rate, headers, defensive headers in his own box from corners. It was everything that he gave the team, as well as the goal threat.”
Edwards added: “He played through a lot of pain last season, he didn’t want to miss a minute. He’s a proper leader, he’s got a voice and people respect him. The fans love him, we love him – he knows that – and I think he responds well to that as well.
“He knows how important he is, but he goes and puts it all out there every day in training. He goes over that white line on a Saturday, or any matchday now, and he’s right at it and a handful for anyone. We’re delighted to have him as our handful for the long-term.”
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The way Rob Edwards describes Carlton on match days,’He’s right at it!’ Brilliant! That’s motivation in action!