Luton skipper Sonny Bradley now looks set to stay with the Championship Hatters, snubbing the chance to join the Blues this summer.

The 29-year-old was believed to be close to joining Town having rejected a new offer at Kenilworth Road with some sources suggesting the deal was all but done.

However, according to Football Insider, the centre-half is now minded to agree a new deal with Luton, who he joined three seasons ago and TWTD understands that while not yet confirmed, Bradley is indeed now more likely to remain with the Hatters than move on this summer.

Yesterday, Bradley’s centre-half partner Matty Pearson agreed to join Huddersfield which may well have led the Hatters to step up their attempts to keep hold of their captain.

The Blues' interest in Bradley began circulating on social media last weekend with Town understood to be very much the frontrunners for his signature, while Preston had previously been linked.

Bradley started his career with hometown club Hull City and while a Tigers player spent time on loan at Harrogate, IK Frej in Sweden and Aldershot before moving on to Portsmouth in 2013 - prior to Paul Cook’s time at Fratton Park - having made only one start and one sub appearance while at the KCOM Stadium.

After one season at Pompey, 6ft 5in tall Bradley moved on to Crawley, where he spent two years prior to another two campaigns at Plymouth Argyle.

In 2018 left-sided Bradley joined Luton, then in League One, on a free transfer, signing a three-year deal which is up this summer. He helped them to promotion in his first season and has been one of their top performers in the second tier in the last two campaigns.

As previously reported, Town boss Paul Cook is looking to assemble a squad of Championship standard players this summer and will be looking for a number of central defenders.

As revealed last week, former loanee Callum Connolly is among Cook’s central defensive targets with the 23-year-old now having confirmed his Everton departure.

Town may struggle to compete with Championship clubs when it comes to wages this summer with League One’s SCMP Financial Fair Play rules limiting sides to spending 60 per cent of their turnover on wages.

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blues1 added 13:21 - May 22 Monkeyblue. U clearly have no clue. We actually do have £40m available to spend this summer. Doesnt mean we're gonna spend it all. But yes, as u say, we are still going to be bound by the ffp when it comes to wages, up against income. But as we are likely to have a much smaller squad for next season that will allow us to pay bigger wages to those players we do sign. And with players likely to be sold in the summer that will give us extra income, meaning again, we can spend more on wages. If u were thinking a bit more laterally and you'd realise that. Rather than looking at the size of squad last season and judging what we can pay based on that.

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Monkey_Blue added 13:38 - May 22 Blues1. We can't spend £40m. How clueless are you. We don't have the wage budget to spend £40m. If you don't understand the rules then keep quiet. If you can only spend 60% of your generated revenue on wages please explain to me how we could spend £40m. A player worth £1m will get far better contracts from championship clubs. If we beat their offer we then have even less to spend on wages for other signings. Please tell me you haven't understood the rules or you look like the people who's cognitive dissonance and ignorance on here ticks me off so much. We can pay fees, but the players will be no better than the wages we can afford. Even if I agreed with lambert that we need rid of woofenden, Dozzell? Downes, Dobra, Bishop etc we won't get better players for the budget especially given cooks public pronouncements have devalued all significantly and no decent manager publicly criticises players the way cook has as its poor man management,

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Monkey_Blue added 13:53 - May 22 Blues1 as for thinking laterally…. I'm aware we can pay more if the squad is smaller. I know maths, but we still would have to overpay significantly to beat a championship club to a player and do you want a player who's just here for the money? Cook has gone about this all wrong from the start. Sick of hearing “honest” confused with “backside covering, finger pointing rant”. Saying something harsh doesn't mean honest. His job is to manage the players btw…. That includes some understanding of man management, not spouting off to fans. I don't mind if he's not honest to fans if it's to get the best out of players. I know a scout at Ipswich who says the issue with chambers was jealousy. The players respected him and lost respect for cook pretty quickly when he didn't just criticise the performances that suffered because of his tactics, but basically said they were all terrible players. Even if they were, we had a chance of the play-offs so a good manager would have kept his mouth shut. I am not a serial criticiser of managers. Didn't like royle, only thought Keane should go after a year or so, Jewell was shot towards the end and hurst was an obvious mistake from the start. Now count all the other managers since 1978 I haven't felt at some point needed lots of criticism. The Mick haters are the hurst haters are the lambert haters who almost all now think Cook is the messiah. MM improved results with a squad who weren't his players and didn't specify a particular way to play other than one that would work. Cook has blamed the players for not being suited to his ONE way and formation…. Whereas a good manager/coach adapts and doesn't live in a Tactical straight jacket

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Monkey_Blue added 13:53 - May 22 Blues1 as for thinking laterally…. I'm aware we can pay more if the squad is smaller. I know maths, but we still would have to overpay significantly to beat a championship club to a player and do you want a player who's just here for the money? Cook has gone about this all wrong from the start. Sick of hearing “honest” confused with “backside covering, finger pointing rant”. Saying something harsh doesn't mean honest. His job is to manage the players btw…. That includes some understanding of man management, not spouting off to fans. I don't mind if he's not honest to fans if it's to get the best out of players. I know a scout at Ipswich who says the issue with chambers was jealousy. The players respected him and lost respect for cook pretty quickly when he didn't just criticise the performances that suffered because of his tactics, but basically said they were all terrible players. Even if they were, we had a chance of the play-offs so a good manager would have kept his mouth shut. I am not a serial criticiser of managers. Didn't like royle, only thought Keane should go after a year or so, Jewell was shot towards the end and hurst was an obvious mistake from the start. Now count all the other managers since 1978 I haven't felt at some point needed lots of criticism. The Mick haters are the hurst haters are the lambert haters who almost all now think Cook is the messiah. MM improved results with a squad who weren't his players and didn't specify a particular way to play other than one that would work. Cook has blamed the players for not being suited to his ONE way and formation…. Whereas a good manager/coach adapts and doesn't live in a Tactical straight jacket

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WonTheCupin78 added 14:04 - May 22 Won't get much for our present players. Cook has made it clear they are not good....
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Monkey_Blue added 15:12 - May 22 WonTheCupin78….. so because Cook says so it must be true? It's like people who say I feel Jesus so It must be true…. No evidence just blind following of a messiah…. Neither are mate. How do you justify Cook's judgement is not able to be questioned?
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Monkey_Blue added 15:20 - May 22 WonTheCupin78…. Cook has never been offered a decent championship club job and shown no loyalty to the clubs he has managed. These are just facts. He strikes me as totally self obsessed which might work short term for him…. But how many of the clubs he's managed are in a higher division than when he left them? He's a narcissist and that's the worst kind of manager and person.

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Monkey_Blue added 15:48 - May 22 WonTheCupIn78. Whatever we can get for our players just went down significantly because of the weeks of cook deriding them and him telling them he doesn't want them. Even if this was done in a disrespectful 45 second meeting…. The players, their agents and suiters all know they can get all of them at knock down prices. Tell me how this helps us when we can't get better than downes or wooflfenden? Hence less money in the pot for wages but also we could need a dozen players or more if dobra, Dozzell, downes, Bishop, edwards et al all leave. We've done the nonsense huge turn around with hurst before. It's called evolution because it works and is about adaptation to circumstances…. This is blitzing reality

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cat added 15:51 - May 22 Monkey Blue - There's two ways you can look towards next season. 1/ Go through the summer full of doom cause Cook failed to motivate a group of below average players who just got to comfortable with life at ITFC OR 2/ New owners who are willing to invest, new Captain, Ed as our sponsor, old guard dismantled and a summer full of new signings and at last some optimism for the fan who want it! We have been crying out for all the things in 2 so I'm simply going to enjoy that one!

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Monkey_Blue added 23:06 - May 22 Cat. There is accepting reality and there is making s41t up to make yourself feel better. I'm always positive given reason. Cook couldn't care less about legacy, his record shows he's a short term merchant who cares about HIS record. With potentially a large long term commitment I don't won't a narrow sighted self cantered manager who thinks all failure is someone else's fault.

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dirtydingusmagee added 14:09 - May 24 another agent / press story sunk .
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