I'm not doubting RN, and I know nothing about what's going on behind the scenes, but it seems to me that it's looking less likely that we're going to get Newell. If Luton are that determined to keep him and will build a new stadium in attempt to get to him to stay, then I can't see him leaving. As that article said, why leave a team just outside the playoffs where he already has a good reputation and following for a team whose battling relegation? Only reason would be that we are a bigger club with better facilities, but if they give him a new stadium and more money then we wouldn't look such an attractive prospect.
Hopefully we do get him! Just the longer this goes on the less optimistic I am about it...