{"id":29624,"date":"2025-05-09T20:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/pelly-ruddock-mpanzu-luton-town-legend-to-leave-the-club\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:41:17","slug":"pelly-ruddock-mpanzu-luton-town-legend-to-leave-the-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/pelly-ruddock-mpanzu-luton-town-legend-to-leave-the-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu: Luton Town legend to leave the club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Luton Town have announced they will release &#8220;club legend&#8221; Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu at the end of his contract next month.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old&#8217;s departure will bring to an end a stay of more than 11 years for the  midfielder, who joined the Hatters when they were in the National League and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/65695212\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">helped them to four promotions<\/a>, a record, as they rose to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The DR Congo international made 412 appearances for the club, although he spent the second half of the season on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cqx9dn7l5xpo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">loan at Rotherham United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club website said Mpanzu &#8220;departs as a Luton Town legend for his role in our rise from non-league to the Premier League over 11-and-a-half glorious years at Kenilworth Road since signing from West Ham as a teenager in 2013&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also leaving Luton after their relegation from the Championship, will be goalkeeper Tim Krul, defender Amari&#8217;i Bell and Nigeria international Victor Moses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bell leaves after four years, and was also part of the 2022-23 side that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/65654937\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">secured promotion to the Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jameson Horlick is another first-team squad member who will leave Kenilworth Road, but the club confirmed that defender and club captain Tom Lockyer, who is out of contract, will remain with the club to complete his rehabilitation from ankle surgery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cn8zldjnzpro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luton Town have announced they will release &#8220;club legend&#8221; Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu at the end of his contract next month. The 31-year-old&#8217;s departure will bring to an end a stay of more than 11 years for the midfielder, who joined the Hatters when they were in the National League and helped them to four promotions, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29626,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624\/revisions\/29626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}