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So, I'm playing against my friend's OnG (new armybook) and he fails his animosity check with a unit of night goblins and is forced to charge my greatswords. He stops at the 8" mark to pop is fanatics. Two of them fail to roll high enough to make it through the unit. Given the charge angle, the situation that resulted looked like this:

.........nnnnn
...F.....nnnnn
.....F.. nnnnn
..........nnnnn
GGGGGGG
GGGGGGG
GGGGGGG
GGGGGG.
....F.......

G's are greatswords, Fs are fanatics, n's are night goblins, dots are to take up space. I run my greatswords 7x4 but Back-row Steve died from the fanatic that made it through.

So clearly, he has to maximize right into the middle of my unit, because I'm seven wide and he's five wide, right? Except, there are stuffs in the way. But the stuffs are fanatics, which are units, but which can't be charged and don't really take up any space.

Appealing to others in the store, the ruling was that his guys had to slide over to mine, meaning they stepped on the two fanatics, exploded them, and tanked 4d6 s5 hits (meaning 15 night goblins died and the rest were sliced up into gobbo mcnuggets in revenge for Back-row Steve). I think this is right, but I'm wondering what the community thinks. Comment away!

Fanatics were one of the few cases in which a model could actually be landed on.

If he was in successful charge range, then yes, he should have attempted to maximize contact. That does not necessarily mean he has to hit the dead center of your unit, just that he has to make sure the most amount of models come into contact with one another. In the example you listed though, with the same base sizes, he would indeed have to hit the center of your Greatswords so as to contact 7 models. He would then land on the fanatics and resolve from there.

As above.

The rules for fanatics explicitly let you land on them, and tell you waht to do. The rules for maximising required him to move over.