It’s a great achievement for Luton Town to make it to the Premier League. In fact, it’s hard to find any of their fans who could have predicted the sensational promotion a year or two years ago. But it happened. Of course, it’s great to make it to the top division, but it also presents the club executives with some problems. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mads Juel Andersen (@madsjuelandersen) Getting to the EPL and receiving millions from TV networks and sponsors is all very well, but assembling a team that wouldn’t embarrass themselves every week is another matter – especially for such a modest, old club.Luton won’t sign glamourous players. Their best performers won’t be smiling on the cover page of the new FIFA game, but they will sign fighters ready to battle for every point against superior opponents every week.##NAJAVA_MECA_7349212##Since sealing promotion to the EPL, Luton have brought in Lagos-born Ireland international Chiedozie Ogbene on a free transfer from second-tier Rotherham. It was a pretty shrewd piece of business, but the same can be said about the latest arrival: Danish centre-back Mads Juel Andersen from League One side Barnsley. The 25-year-old became Luton’s record signing on Monday.Andersen came through the ranks at Danish Superliga club Brondby, where he made his professional debut and earned two caps for his country at Under-19 level. After a loan at second-tier KB Hoge, he joined AC Horsens in 2017 and scored five goals in 32 appearances – enough to earn a move to South Yorkshire for a reported fee of $1,000,000 in 2019. In the past four years, he became the Tykes’ captain and one of the best-respected players in the third tier. Barnsley missed out on promotion to the EFL Championship by losing the play-off final to Sheffield Wednesday. The time has come to move.
Speaking after completing his medical in Luton, Andersen described his emotions on signing for the Hatters and fulfilling his long-held target since his time back home in Scandinavia of reaching the English Premier League.”It feels very, very good. I’m delighted and I’m looking forward to this next chapter of my life at Luton Town. I’m so excited. It’s a dream come true. When I made my move in Denmark from Brondby to a lower team in the same division, me and my dad spoke about it and I said, ‘In one and a half years, I’m going to go to the Championship’, and that is exactly what happened. During that period, I also wrote on a piece of paper, ‘Premier League’, and stuck it on the fridge. I completely forgot about it, until my family told me, ‘You put that on the fridge!’. So it’s a proud moment for them as well.”