JACK WALTON MAKES LOAN SWITCH TO TANNADICE FROM LUTON TOWN

Dundee United are delighted to announce the signing of goalkeeper Jack Walton, who joins the club on loan from Luton Town until the end of the 2023/24 campaign subject to international clearance.

After stints with both Bury and Bolton Wanderers during his younger years, Walton made the switch to Barnsley as a 15-year-old.

His stellar and consistent performances with the club’s youth sides saw him gain international recognition, as he was included in England’s U18s squad in 2015.

The shot-stopper’s inevitable breakthrough into the first-team at Oakwell soon followed, before he cemented himself as the club’s number one ‘keeper towards the end of the 2019/20 season.

An impressive run of five clean sheets in nine Championship matches for Walton helped the Tykes defy the odds to retain their second-tier status against the odds. The following campaign, he made 24 appearances as Barnsley reached the semi-final of the promotion play-offs.

As a decade in South Yorkshire concluded, the academy graduate had turned out more than 60 times in red and white and averaged a shutout every 3.9 matches.

The talented 25-year-old was snapped up by Premier League-bound Luton Town earlier this year, and was part of the squad which succeeded in getting the Bedfordshire-based outfit’s historic promotion over the line.

Walton, heading north of the border with a rich pedigree from multiple years of regular dependency across various levels of the English game, is ready to immediately integrate himself within the first-team setup at Tannadice.

Demanding Standards

"Jack is a very good young 'keeper who commands his area and will put demands on the defenders in front of him by being vocal and a good organiser" said United Manager Jim Goodwin upon the announcement of Jack's Tannadice switch.

He continued "Having played a number of games in the English Championship, he has also been part of two promotion-winning teams already in his career and we are very grateful to Luton for their help in getting the loan deal over the line."