Carlos Edwards poised to sign for Luton Town.
BBC Sport
Luton Town manager Mike Newell is on the verge of signing Wrexham right-winger Carlos Edwards on a Bosman free transfer. Edwards will quit Wrexham after agreeing a three-year contract with the Hatters.
The Trinidad and Tobago international joins fellow defender Stephen Roberts - who will join Doncaster Rovers - in leaving the Racecourse.
Edwards, 26, was offered a new deal by the Dragons, but becomes a free agent on 1 July and will join Luton then. Mike Newell's side were promoted from League One as champions, while Wrexham were relegated to League Two.
Edwards' agent confirmed the move to BBC Wales and revealed that both Plymouth Argyle and Coventry City were keen to sign the player.
Wrexham have struggled to pay wages this season and were forced into administration, being docked the 10 League points in the process that pushed them towards relegation.
Edwards' agent Mike Berry confirmed that Edwards will join up with his new team-mates in early June, and praised Newell for building up a good relationship with the 26-year-old whilst he has been tracking his progress.
"He will sign for Luton, effectively it will be the 1st of July, but we've agreed personal terms and he's looking forward to joining the club," Berry told skysports.com.
"We turned down Plymouth last Friday, and also Coventry, but he also had Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds, he had numerous Championship clubs chasing him.
"Mike Newell's been watching him for three years and he has a good rapport with the manager and Mike Newell made him very welcome at the meeting and the chairman was very ambitious and they just said all the right things you know.
"But mainly Mike Newell, he won the League One Manger of the Year award last night and there is a nice rapport between the two of them, that's the main reason he joined, Mike Newell."
The north Wales club still faces an uncertain future off the pitch.
Owner Alex Hamilton has served Wrexham FC with a notice to quit the Racecourse Ground this summer, although administrators running the club are ready to go to the courts to stop Wrexham being evicted.
Edwards joined Wrexham in June 2000 from Trinidad side Defence Force FC and has been one of the team's most consistent performers, catching the eye on both flanks with his attacking flair and defensive qualities.
The player was the subject of a £350,000 bid from Preston North End last season before he suffered a serious knee ligament injury while on international duty that sidelined him for seven months.
He is expected to be the first of three new singings by Luton Town boss Newell this summer, with Portsmouth striker Rowan Vine, who spent last season on loan at Kenilworth Road a target for a permanent move, and ex-Hatters defender Matt Jackson, recently promoted to the Premiership with Wigan Athletic, also on Newell’s summer shopping list.
Newell has freed up some space for new arrivals by releasing Alan Neilson, Ian Hillier, David Bayliss and Lee Mansell after their contracts expired.
