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When's Copa America over?

Imagine telling the Talk Chelsea of a couple of years ago that we'd be signing Falcao and were desperate to avoid him. I'm willing to be open minded and back him because I always get a bit giddy when we sign a striker. He gets 10-15 PL goals somehow and looks more like the dangerous predator that he was I'd consider it a successful season for him. He won't get back to the heights that he once did but he may become a very solid player under José and with the service of our midfield.

In terms of skill set and injury situation I can understand the Torres comparison. This situation however cannot be compared at all. Torres was meant to be our flashy, talismanic, face-of-the-club signing. Falcao wouldn't have any of that expectation and would be a backup. High reward potential? Yes. Is it truly high risk? Not really because he isn't going to cost £30, 40, or 50m and it wouldn't be a disaster if he flopped again. Falcao has a repeat of his United season? Sucks, but oh well. Costa and Remy are still there and we can flog him off if need be.

Every target we've been linked with has now either been ruled out by our manager or ruled out by the players themselves. Pogba, Bale, Koke, Griezmann... Then other players we have been linked with are apparently close to joining other sides like Schniederlin. *sigh* Least we have Falcao to look forward to, right guys?

Indifferent on both, tbh...

Who the hell are we signing?

We're waiting until after the CL final to make our bid. Don't want him to lose his focus.

True, unfortunately.

If we got back every penny of what we paid for him then I can't say I'd miss him. Think he gets until January if it's up to the club. If he himself actually wants to leave then he can fuck off honestly and we can move on.

Twitter is slacking with these days. No pictures of Falcao on a plane with the caption "On Roman Abramovich's private jet," or partying on "Roman Abramovich's yacht?"

I don't know, the necks look slightly different...

Yeah, his head looks too big for the body there.

What a way to unveil the new kit that would be! If only.

I know it's not the best opposition, but if Hazard plays with this attitude every match in the PL and Europe then he'll take that next step up in his evolution. Rather than occasionally slowing his game down and being more passive he has taken his man on and sprinted at defenders Robben-style and destroyed people. You can't get close to him when he does this. Diego looked sharper and more fit than I've seen since the first half of the season. A nice, easy preseason with plenty of rest and I think we'll burst out of the gate just like we did last season.

Diego was awesome and Hazard was in his unstoppable form.

I'm up early as fuck here in the US. Someone better post up another YouTube stream like last game.

LOL, yeah right!

I really want him now. Will be very disappointed if we don't sign him.

That's most likely the case, but you'd expect some whispers here and there with SOME truth to them.Pretty much every player we've bought recently we've heard rumblings about prior to them coming. Except for maybe Cesc from what I remember. Only players were hearing about now are Falcao (who's been shit for a year) and Rob Green (who many here think isn't even good enough to trust as our backup).

If it's true that we aren't after Griezmann then who ARE we after? He was really the only player we've been seriously linked with so far.Weird how we aren't heavily linked with anyone like we were last summer. Slightly concerning.

Pretty sure it was reported months ago that Fiorentina exercised the option to extend his loan for another season with an option to buy a year from now, wasn't it?

Just saw this retweeted on my timeline from that WUM Rob Beasley: He's a huge troll, though, so I'm sure it's bullshit.

Ricky Lambert? :lol:

That black United kit is absolutely disgusting. And not in a good way. As for our supposed new kits hanging on the door, they'd probably look much better when they're actually on our players. Also if they didn't look like they were size 3x.

So long as we also sign Griezmann then I'm fine with Falcao. We need an attacking player that directly and instantly improves our first XI and Falcao isn't that.