Radamel Falcao

[LDN Blue 7,903]

  On 31/05/2015 at 17:34, michalcfc said:

and he'll come as a 2nd or 3rd striker.

Really? £250-300,000/week (as quoted by most sources) plus a £45m transfer fee and that amounts to "2nd or 3rd striker"?

Shevchenko and Torres. Two players that we signed for record deals and clearly not cut out for this squad, signed simply because of their name. Costa & Remy were smart signings, scouted and well thought out.. They contributed in abundance for fees not near what we're used to paying. Falcao is signing that signals name over anything, I saw a member even suggest shirt sales as a pro for this move?!

If this club is paying those sorts of sums for a second or third striker then it's clearly going in the wrong direction. Sure, he could go elsewhere and become a success and we'd say "oh we should have signed him", but are we really in a position to take such a financial risk? Mourinho has said countless times how we're trying to abide by FFP, if that's true then this is a case of 1 step forward, 2 steps back.

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  On 01/06/2015 at 03:26, LDN Blue said:

Really? £250-300,000/week (as quoted by most sources) plus a £45m transfer fee and that amounts to "2nd or 3rd striker"?

Shevchenko and Torres. Two players that we signed for record deals and clearly not cut out for this squad, signed simply because of their name. Costa & Remy were smart signings, scouted and well thought out.. They contributed in abundance for fees not near what we're used to paying. Falcao is signing that signals name over anything, I saw a member even suggest shirt sales as a pro for this move?!

If this club is paying those sorts of sums for a second or third striker then it's clearly going in the wrong direction. Sure, he could go elsewhere and become a success and we'd say "oh we should have signed him", but are we really in a position to take such a financial risk? Mourinho has said countless times how we're trying to abide by FFP, if that's true then this is a case of 1 step forward, 2 steps back.

In case you misunderstood, we will only sign Falcao on loan with a negotiation for a pay cut. If he still want a huge wage, we will be looking for someone else.

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  On 01/06/2015 at 03:35, RoyalBlues said:

In case you misunderstood, we will only sign Falcao on loan with a negotiation for a pay cut. If he still want a huge wage, we will be looking for someone else.

Call me a skeptic but I think that 'paycut' is quite unlikely. When you live such a luxurious lifestyle you're not going to lower your demands to such an extent. Which ever way you look at it, it's paying over the odds for a second or third striker that simply isn't suitable.

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  On 01/06/2015 at 03:55, LDN Blue said:

Call me a skeptic but I think that 'paycut' is quite unlikely. When you live such a luxurious lifestyle you're not going to lower your demands to such an extent. Which ever way you look at it, it's paying over the odds for a second or third striker that simply isn't suitable.

He will have to, if he want to come here, because no players in here will gain more than Terry and Hazard. Also because this time the player looks badly need the move. Last season at MU, LvG want the move and it still below or the same of Rooney get each week.

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  On 01/06/2015 at 03:55, LDN Blue said:

Call me a skeptic but I think that 'paycut' is quite unlikely. When you live such a luxurious lifestyle you're not going to lower your demands to such an extent. Which ever way you look at it, it's paying over the odds for a second or third striker that simply isn't suitable.

He was on 265k a week, if he wants to take a paycut to 100-150k, we can talk.

He's the desperate one here, not us. After his injury and bad year at United, not many top clubs still want him. He's already almost 30 years old, so probably his last chance to move to an elite club.

If he wants to keep that luxurious lifestyle and throw away his final ambitions, so be it. We already have 2 top strikers, we can easily buy another reasonable striker instead of him. Monaco also knows his market value dropped superbly after these 2 years, they will never get the original transfer sum (+ - £55M) back.

So it's basically like: 130K/wk, £3m loan fee and option to buy at max £22M. Take it or leave it, Monaco and Falcao.

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  On 01/06/2015 at 05:35, stroey said:

He was on 265k a week, if he wants to take a paycut to 100-150k, we can talk.

He's the desperate one here, not us. After his injury and bad year at United, not many top clubs still want him. He's already almost 30 years old, so probably his last chance to move to an elite club.

If he wants to keep that luxurious lifestyle and throw away his final ambitions, so be it. We already have 2 top strikers, we can easily buy another reasonable striker instead of him. Monaco also knows his market value dropped superbly after these 2 years, they will never get the original transfer sum (+ - £55M) back.

So it's basically like: 130K/wk, £3m loan fee and option to buy at max £22M. Take it or leave it, Monaco and Falcao.

has he ever played in CL? we can give him that chance. needs to do an anti-torres by taking a paycut.

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  On 01/06/2015 at 06:02, didierforever said:

has he ever played in CL? we can give him that chance. needs to do an anti-torres by taking a paycut.

Yeah some members here posted a picture of him playing against Arsenal with Porto.

I can't remember that, he was known for years as a world class striker without any/many CL goals/matches.

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  On 01/06/2015 at 06:02, didierforever said:

has he ever played in CL? we can give him that chance. needs to do an anti-torres by taking a paycut.

yes he has played 8 games and scored 4 goals in the CL, and two of those 8 games was against us.

[pHaRaOn 2,131]

He played twice against us in Champions League with Porto.

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  On 01/06/2015 at 03:55, LDN Blue said:

Call me a skeptic but I think that 'paycut' is quite unlikely. When you live such a luxurious lifestyle you're not going to lower your demands to such an extent. Which ever way you look at it, it's paying over the odds for a second or third striker that simply isn't suitable.

**Cough** Etoo *cough*. If I remember, he was earning like 300K/wk. Took a paycut to play for us. And he never earned more than Drogba. #just saying

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  On 01/06/2015 at 08:01, magic weeds said:

**Cough** Etoo *cough*. If I remember, he was earning like 300K/wk. Took a paycut to play for us. And he never earned more than Drogba. #just saying

It's all relative - £100k a week is massive £5.2 million a year! If that's not enough to live on with a luxury lifestyle then what the fuck is?

[Special Juan 27,616]

The greedy cunt should come here for fuck all after he chased the money to Monaco, either that or put the fucker on minimum wage.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

And along with the paycut, hopefully we shouldn't have to pay any loan fee either. That fee have to be paid for a club interested in him. This one the player want the move.

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  On 01/06/2015 at 08:06, Special Juan said:

The greedy cunt should come here for fuck all after he chased the money to Monaco, either that or put the fucker on minimum wage.

wasn't he basically given to Monaco by his 3rd party investors (who i think no longer have an involvement). They wanted to make X amount of million on him/their

"share" when he left Atletico and Monaco offered them exactly what they wanted, as theyd just got the take over not too long prior and were spending money like it was going out of fashion.

Quite interesting to read the Falcao move to Monaco and reasons behind it, is a detailed write up on reddit. In a nutshell, he had no say

[LAB 1,030]

Please don't. We have good academy options but even if Jose insists they are not ready, just try to buy someone like Benteke or Austin. FFS there are plenty of fresh talents out there, why do they always link us with the goners?

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

#Monaco want to offload Falcao permanently for a fee of €35m [massive hit on €60m paid in 2013]. #CFC pushing for loan+option to buy at €25m

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  On 01/06/2015 at 11:54, Eidur the Spider said:

#Monaco want to offload Falcao permanently for a fee of €35m [massive hit on €60m paid in 2013]. #CFC pushing for loan+option to buy at €25m

Loan him for a season. If he's shit, then he can do one. If he's half-decent, then €25m is next to nothing for a proven international striker.

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  On 01/06/2015 at 08:01, magic weeds said:

**Cough** Etoo *cough*. If I remember, he was earning like 300K/wk. Took a paycut to play for us. And he never earned more than Drogba. #just saying

Touché. But I still would be pessimistic about the chances of that happening again.. 2-3 seasons ago this would've been the ideal signing because of the lack of any striker at the time. I just don't see the logic in this, we have Diego and Remy so all we need is one more striker to add depth. I'm not suggesting Bamford and Solanke, because I think the former would benefit from another loan. But there are surely cheaper options that will do the job, who is younger and cheaper. Probably just as able too.

  On 01/06/2015 at 09:53, ChelseaFanUK said:

Quite interesting to read the Falcao move to Monaco and reasons behind it, is a detailed write up on reddit. In a nutshell, he had no say

Do you have the link to this mate?