Mads Andersen insists Luton will feed off people casting the Hatters as Premier League relegation fodder and use it as fuel for their survival mission.
Town’s newest signing was officially unveiled on Monday after his switch from Barnsley, where he was captain.
The 26-year-old’s signing from a League One club, is the latest piece of business which has seen social media awash with people questioning Luton’s chances at England’s top table.
But for Andersen, whose dream it has been to play in the Premier League since he was a teen trying to make the grade back home at Brondby, is fully aware that everyone outside of Luton is writing his new team off before a ball has even been kicked.
“We’re going to use that as fuel,” said the centre half, adding: “They can tell us whatever they want but we’re going to use it as fuel, that’s what we have to do. I’m confident.”
Andersen will join up with his new team-mates tomorrow for the start of pre-season, where there will be a core of players that have been with the club all the way through the Football League.
Luke Berry is the latest to have signed a new deal, while Dan Potts and James Shea are still at the club and Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu – who was with the club in the Conference – is widely expected to agree a new deal that would ensure another personal entry in the history books.
Andersen joined Barnsley in 2019 when they were in the Championship but after relegation played last term in the third tier and is now preparing for the Premier League.
“To prove to yourself that you can play here, that’s going to be a strength of ours,” said the Dane, adding: “Because everyone will probably say that we will go down, but that’s just fuel to the fire so it’s good.”
