Radamel Falcao

[We Hate Scouse 10,286]

@Alex

If he scores 15 goals coming season, I will set a donkey as my avatar.

And if he doesn't Alex has to?

[mediator 2,026]

Whats the loan fee? Manu payed 6£m + 275k/w?

10M rumoured

[zolayes 14,489]

Chelsea HQ ‏@Chelsea_HQ 2 Min.Vor 2 Minuten

It is understood #Chelsea will pay a loan fee of around £5m for Falcao + the option to buy him permanently next summer for £35m. [Telegraph]

35m buy option? what? how come we agree to that. someone who has played bad for 2 years, is nearly 30 and injury-prone. so many good deals in the past (cesc, diego etc) and now seems like we are back to bs

we only pay it IF it turns out he proves to be worth it

[The Mak 4,459]

So it happend already? did we lose Remy? omg no!

'Omg', please note:

If we lose Remy, a proven back-up, and Bamford because we took a chance on the current sack of crap that is Falcao, Mourinho will have failed big time. I thought it was about 'keeping the current squad'?

And:

Loic Remy will consider Chelsea exit if Chelsea sign Falcao

Loic Remy wants to QUIT Chelsea with Man United flop Falcao closing in on move

Palace keen on Remy

Remy considering future in light of Falcao deal

etc. It goes on.

Also:

Everton interested in Chelsea forward Patrick Bamford

Don't forget Villa rumours as well.

So yeah, cheers.

[FabHazard 655]

Will he wear our sacred no 9 shirt?

I think so mate...only legends will wear that sacred 9 shirt

[Sosuke Aizen 46]

@We Hate Scouse

Nope. If Falcao scores 15 this coming season, I would wear a donkey as my avatar but both I and Alex would be delighted. If he doesn't, Alex wearing a donkey wouldn't mitigate the annoyance I would feel at Falcao not performing.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

I think so mate...only legends will wear that sacred 9 shirt

We're dooooomed

[King11Didier 916]

Shit! Again number 9 in the squad...

[milka 3,349]

New Fernando Torres or new hit as Diego Costa ?!

[nadavTKL 1,787]

'Omg', please note:

And:

Loic Remy will consider Chelsea exit if Chelsea sign Falcao

Loic Remy wants to QUIT Chelsea with Man United flop Falcao closing in on move

Palace keen on Remy

Remy considering future in light of Falcao deal

etc. It goes on.

Also:

Everton interested in Chelsea forward Patrick Bamford

Don't forget Villa rumours as well.

So yeah, cheers.

It sounded like you already can't wait to criticize Mourinho.

If Remy wants to leave so he could be assured for more game time, like some of this articles suggests, than it's about him, it's his career decision, not Chelsea's. He and his fans (and I'm one of them) can't expect Mourinho to not bring anyone when Drogba leaves, a striker who played like 30 games last season. We can't and shouldn't do everything to keep Remy happy, with all the respect to him. But I'm sure Mourinho wants him to stay, like many articles suggests.

[didierforever 7,349]

i really don't care what people say now about certian players during the transfer window. at the end this is a forum so there has to be some discussion. positive and negative viewpoint is needed. not everyone is always right.

agree. positive AND negative. unfortunately some people just love being negative.

[mediator 2,026]

I'm glad we sign this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTkrigV0HIk

[1chelsea 864]

Had some good laugh really good laugh but Hazard had some of this funny stuff when he not yet confident but look what he had brought to the chelsea table. Let see what Jose will make of him

[Special Juan 27,439]

Pleased about this.

[Oscar 441]

15 goals next season.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Sky Sports News HQ ‏@SkySportsNewsHQ 2h2 hours ago
BREAKING: Sky sources: @ChelseaFC agree deal with @AS_Monaco to sign Radamel Falcao on loan. #SSNHQ


Radamel Falcao: Chelsea on verge of loan deal for Monaco striker

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33155911

WELCOME! :blue scalf:

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Alright, since this is looking like it is actually going to happen (against all logic), I will try to get all the criticism out in this post and will try my best to back him and give him all the support that every player in Chelsea blue deserves. So here we go:

I genuinely hope that this transfer is a result of Jose wanting to do Jorge Mendez a favor or some shit like that because otherwise I would seriously start to doubt Jose's footballing judgement and his mental abilities in general. Why in the world would he want to sign last season's biggest flop of the league, otherwise?

Falcao last season seemed to have lost his scoring instinct as well as his much of his pace and physical abilities. What's worse is that his off the ball work was pretty bad as well so he literally offered next to nothing for utd. And before someone says that their system didn't suite him, how the hell do you know that ours would?!

Yes, he CLOUD regain his previous abilities, but that is hardly convincing. You can say literally about every striker on the market that he COULD come here and score 25 goals per season but what are the actual chances of that happening?!

The point is, we are not in a position where we need to take such risks, we already have two excellent strikers. If we are going to take such long shots then why not put faith in Patrick Bamford instead? I genuinely think HE is a lot more likely to surprise everyone and have a great season for us than Falcao.

Side note: Let's face it, most people who want this transfer feel that way because they bought into the incredible "El Tigre" hype he had a couple of years ago at Atletico. Basically, we are agreeing with Jose and the club taking an incredibly high risk, relatively low reward shot because of some shitty YouTube compilation videos and a silly nickname.

But without a doubt the worst part of this potential transfer would be if Remy asks to leave as a result. The guy is simply the best backup striker in the country and one of the best in Europe; he had many games where he was playing even better than Costa himself, his mins per goal ratio was ridiculous and more importantly a lot of his goals came at crucial moments. Swapping Remy for Falcao would be a HUGE step backwards and beyond a stupid decision by Jose and the board.

I'll leave it at that and not get into his wages, age, the shortsightedness of this transfer and his questionable decisions in joining Monaco and utd. If he signs, I will give him the full support from now till he's had sufficient time to prove himself and I would be absolutely delighted to be proven wrong about this transfer.

[samzilla 517]

there are some significant differences to costa and falcao:

-yes costa had a poor world cup, but...

-costa had an amazing club season

-costa was coming off an injury that hadn't been given enough time to heal by all accounts

-falcao is having a poor copa america, but...

-falcao had a poor club season

-falcao's knee ligament injury has been "healed" for some time, so what you see is probably what you get