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Joachim Andersen sale agreed?

doombear said:
Love it.e specially the stop talking about him in case the Palace fans find out 🤣

I've said all along that selling Andersen and replacing him with Lacroix (at little over half of what we're getting for Andersen) was a great bit of business.
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And he missed out on a FA Cup medal, greedy git lol
 
I was concerned at the time however I think it was a great piece of business for us and Lacroix has proved to be a better player.

I don't blame Andersen and I wont call him greedy. Any worker is entitled to maximise their wages. He didn't cause any trouble for us. Fulham came in with a bid we accepted and he wanted to go.

It's odd how some clubs strategy seems to be based around signing mature players. I notice that Everton are still being linked with a whole bunch of (big name) players in their late twenties and early thirties.

Personally I think our strategy is the right one. Avoid the superstars as we can't afford for them to go wrong and upset the dressing room. Go young and go potential and walk away if we get into a bidding war with a bigger club.
 
The impression i got from watching one of their (very good) podcasts is that fulham fans don't rate anderson very highly. And they don't very much like their record signing smith-rowe either.

I liked anderson the player (especially his passing) when he was here but i never appreciated when he used to be quoted about wanting this, that and the other in the press. It was no surprise when he left for more money!!
 
They're on the hook for £60m with him. An amazing deal for us and bad one for them. They'll be paying him when he's 33 and nothing like the player they bought, with zero sell on value.

I recall a tweet at the start on the season from a Fulham fan "I think we won the transfer window" it said. That aged about as well as Anderson will.
 
BromleyMonkey said:
We might not have won the cup with him at the back. LaCroix was a definite upgrade. I always said, great with the ball at his feet, but defensively Andersen was decidedly flakey at times.
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I have asserted as such on a few occasions on HOL.
I did recognise his passing abilities, either out to the flanks or into midfield.
I believe the deal with Fulham for Andersen was £25 Mill rising to £30 Mill.The deal for the younger Lacroix was a fee of up to £21 Mill.
 
I would have loved to see him in a back 3 with Lacroix and Guehi.

Don’t understand the criticism of him. Less bad games than a lot of players and his passing and vision was in the top 10% in the PL for a defender. Only reason I was happy to see him go was the money issue although we never get to hear the full story.
 
The big difference with Lacroix is it has allowed us to play higher up the pitch as he's quick enough to recover. Andersen was more physically imposing, but he was slow and would get caught flat-footed sometimes. I still can't believe Fulham agreed to pay him 150k per week. It must also be hard for their fans to truly embrace him when he said he would have stayed with us if we'd paid him more.
 
I binned Twitter before he left, but if anyone uses it, you’ll know all the #teamjoa girls who used to wet their knickers over him. They had t-shirts printed the lot. That is my only regret of scrapping Twitter, missing their reaction when we sold him 🤣🤣
 
Eaglecoops said:
I would have loved to see him in a back 3 with Lacroix and Guehi.

Don’t understand the criticism of him. Less bad games than a lot of players and his passing and vision was in the top 10% in the PL for a defender. Only reason I was happy to see him go was the money issue although we never get to hear the full story.
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I think this is the problem and where the criticism comes from, even in the modern era you still need your defenders to actually do some good old fashioned defending and he was left wanting on many occasion in that department. In the modern game of stats I’d love to know how many times LaCroix got his head on the ball in the penalty area last season. Our defending of crosses and set pieces definitely improved with him at the back instead of Andersen that’s for sure
 
Eaglecoops said:
I would have loved to see him in a back 3 with Lacroix and Guehi.

Don’t understand the criticism of him. Less bad games than a lot of players and his passing and vision was in the top 10% in the PL for a defender. Only reason I was happy to see him go was the money issue although we never get to hear the full story.
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He was slow and getting slower each year, I think Lerma is a better CB than him.
 
BromleyMonkey said:
I think this is the problem and where the criticism comes from, even in the modern era you still need your defenders to actually do some good old fashioned defending and he was left wanting on many occasion in that department. In the modern game of stats I’d love to know how many times LaCroix got his head on the ball in the penalty area last season. Our defending of crosses and set pieces definitely improved with him at the back instead of Andersen that’s for sure
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To be honest I don’t compare Andersen to Lacroix, they are different types of centre back. I liked Andersen because of his ability to turn defence into attack in a flash and that is not something that Lacroix really has. Guehi has deficiencies in his game, mostly in the air but it doesn’t stop him being a top centre half.

Was it good business selling Andersen? Yes, at that money.
 
Eaglecoops said:
To be honest I don’t compare Andersen to Lacroix, they are different types of centre back. I liked Andersen because of his ability to turn defence into attack in a flash and that is not something that Lacroix really has. Guehi has deficiencies in his game, mostly in the air but it doesn’t stop him being a top centre half.

Was it good business selling Andersen? Yes, at that money.
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I do make you right, I know it’s easy to look at an ex-players deficiencies rather than their good points.
I think as well, it’s not something we’ve been used to over the years, replacing good players that leave with better as in LaCroix for Andersen. Also although not better, Sarr has been a great replacement for Olise.
 
BromleyMonkey said:
I do make you right, I know it’s easy to look at an ex-players deficiencies rather than their good points.
I think as well, it’s not something we’ve been used to over the years, replacing good players that leave with better as in LaCroix for Andersen. Also although not better, Sarr has been a great replacement for Olise.
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Given the loadsamoney bigger clubs have paid for garbage in recent years, Sarr was something of a bargain. Like others, I did wonder what Freedman saw in Sarr - now I know!
 
Spindle said:
They're on the hook for £60m with him. An amazing deal for us and bad one for them. They'll be paying him when he's 33 and nothing like the player they bought, with zero sell on value.

I recall a tweet at the start on the season from a Fulham fan "I think we won the transfer window" it said. That aged about as well as Anderson will.
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Yep odd call from Fulham fan as it was only likely to look good in the short term
 
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