Andros Townsend spent last season with Luton as they failed to hold onto their Premier League status and his exit from Kenilworth Road since then has not gone very smoothly
Ex-England winger Andros Townsend has admitted he does not know which club he is contracted to despite completing a summer transfer.
The former Tottenham and Everton star spent last season with relegated Luton. He made 27 Premier League appearances for the Hatters after missing the entirety of the previous campaign due to injury.
Despite that, he chose to leave Luton after just a solitary season. Townsend, 33, revealed that he had put pen to paper on a deal with Turkish side Antalyaspor.
But the deal has not officially been announced due to a transfer ban for the club. And that has left Townsend confused over which side he is employed by.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, he said: “I’ve had a crazy couple of weeks. Three days before the start of the season at Luton, I get a phone call from Antalyaspor, saying ‘we have an offer for you but you’ve got 24 hours to respond because we’ve got a transfer ban coming and we need to get you in before the transfer ban’.
“So, no time to think about it. I managed to negotiate to be involved in the first game for Luton, played ten minutes in that and then it was literally all signed, all done. Then we missed the deadline by a couple of hours.
“So the contract is signed with Antalyaspor. They can’t officially register me, they can’t announce me, because they have a transfer ban, so I’m literally just stuck in Antalyaspor, just training.
Andros Townsend is current in Turkey after signing a contract with Antalyaspor (
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“I dont know who owns me. Don’t know where my contact is, so yeah, that’s me. I can’t play, they can’t register me, they can’t officially announce me because they’ve got a transfer ban, similar to what Barcelona have, at times.
“I think they’ve got a dispute with just one player who’s taking them to court, so until that’s settled, they can’t bring in any new players. But every time I ask them, they say, ‘the contract is signed, you’re our player.’
“But nothing’s been announced. I can’t play. I’m literally in a hotel at the training ground just training and keeping my head down.”
Townsend has already played for Luton this season having appeared as a substitute in the Hatters’ Championship opener against fellow relegated side Burnley. Fortunately, he has a little more time to complete a move to Antalyaspor.
The Turkish transfer window remains open until September 13. Meanwhile, English clubs only have until this Friday to sort any remaining business.
