Hayrettin backs Still to unearth more diamonds at Luton

Hatters first team coach Hakan Hayrettin believes boss John Still will look to develop Town’s youngsters as he has done at previous club Dagenham & Redbridge, writes Mike Simmonds.
L13-897 LTFC v Aston Villa pre season friendly at Kenilworth road, Luton
Mark Wood
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23.7.13L13-897 LTFC v Aston Villa pre season friendly at Kenilworth road, Luton
Mark Wood
JR 30
23.7.13
L13-897 LTFC v Aston Villa pre season friendly at Kenilworth road, Luton Mark Wood JR 30 23.7.13

In the week that former Still protege Dwight Gayle moved from Peterborough to Crystal Palace for a fee believed to be around £4.5million, Hayrettin said: “The gaffer has an ethos that he loves raw, young talent.

“We believe we’ve got some excellent youngsters here, so we want to try and push them through as much as we can.

“We want to keep our best players and our youngsters, they’ve been schooled the right way which is the main thing and we’re adding our little touches on to it.

“They don’t know the way we do it. We’ve got to teach them that and there has to be a filtering process where the youth team squad mirrors the first team, so it will apply all the way through.

“We’re going to push that and get it the way the gaffer wants.”