Radamel Falcao

[Leif 6,006]

What we saw today from Falcao really was that he offers very little unless he's around the opponents penalty box with a soaring cross coming in or if he has the ball at his feet.

[themightyblue 443]

What we saw today from Falcao really was that he offers very little unless he's around the opponents penalty box with a soaring cross coming in or if he has the ball at his feet.

Or an off day where he couldn't get involved in the game........

All the best strikers in the world have games like this. Just feel like it's being over analysed just because its Falcao. It's normal. Happens to everyone

[fAnta 107]

Or an off day where he couldn't get involved in the game........

All the best strikers in the world have games like this. Just feel like it's being over analysed just because its Falcao. It's normal. Happens to everyone

agreed, i think in a game where a striker doesn't score unless your ibrahimovic or drogba your impact will generally be regarded as offering little.

[The Mak 4,459]

By some of the posts on here, it makes it seem like we shouldn't bother buying a striker at all because their either going to end up playing like Torres or because they're not like Drogba...I mean, I know we've become accustomed to high standards, but come on.

I'm pretty sure Falcao will stick the ball in the net wherever he ends up. We've all seen Torres miss some golden chances, including today, and I bet the majority of people here were imagining what if those chances fell to ANY other striker.

I'm just worried about paying £50m for a, soon-to-be, 27 year old. The ideal scenario would be a cash + Torres deal. Either way, I'm sure we'd get £15m+ for Torres.

[Rmpr 8,977]

I'm just worried about paying £50m for a, soon-to-be, 27 year old. The ideal scenario would be a cash + Torres deal. Either way, I'm sure we'd get £1.5m+ for Torres.

OOOH, so much better now

[The Mak 4,459]

OOOH, so much better now

To be honest, I think that's being more realistic!

[Sheva. 5,373]

I just hope someone out there thinks they can revitalize Torres, and take him from us.

[Joker10 946]

I just hope someone out there thinks they can revitalize Torres, and take him from us.

I can't see any club taking a chance on Torres, if it is for on the pitch purpose. Here is the killer about Torres he is extremely overpaid, he makes over 180,000k per week and only the mega rich clubs can afford him. To put it nicely he is well below the standard of PSG, Madrid, Barca, and City players. I only realistically see a club in China or Russia(less likely) taking a chance on him for off the pitch purpose mainly for Marketing.

He has to take a massive pay cut for another club to take a chance on him, at the very least 50% pay cut. Won't speculate if he will or not, if someone like Kaka doesn't do it i have little hope Torres will do it.

My guess is that we will most likely loan him out in the summer and pay vast amount of his salary. Expect something like the Adebayor situation, and hope he plays well and all parties agree to a deal after the loan spell. Don't expect a transfer fee, best scenario would be him off our payroll as soon as possible..

I know some like to speculate that Alti would agree to Cash+Torres=Falcao. I don't see that happening, it comes down to his wages again and note that Alti payroll is equivalent to a mid table club in PL.

[YouNameIt 1,511]

Why for some reason do people think that there are players who are 100% every game?

Get a fucking grip guys..

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

Mate are you actually serious? Please watch a few games of Falcao. Tbh I can't wait till he comes to the premier league and proves people wrong for saying he's not worth 40-50 million when he's winning trophies and scoring goals for either us or City. He won't win you games by himself? Watch an Atletico game. Ask an Atletico and tell me Falcao has never won a game by himself. This is just as bad as when people describe Drogba as a target man

Almost nobody is worth 40-50M no matter what. There have been 4 players in history who have gone for 50M+. (Ronaldo, Torres, Ibrahimovic, and Kaka) Only 2 other players went between 40-50M (Figo and Zidane) 4 of those 6 players were Real Madrid buys and all 4 of those were previous Ballon D'or winners. Other teams are somehow still able to win trophies and get strikers that score goals without spending that much money on a single player. You can get players that will fit your team and not cost 50M pounds. It's amazing. Chelsea have gone after big-name strikers twice. We bought Shevchenko who was a ballon d'or winner and probably the best striker in the world in a league that's always been difficult to score in. He was almost useless for us. Then, we spent 50M on Torres who had scored 65 goals in just over 100 games in England, the starting striker for the best national team in the world. Utterly useless at Chelsea. (That's without mentioning Chris Sutton who cost a lot of money and was even worse than Torres). You're acting like this is a new situation. Like we've never seen a case where there was a striker that everyone thought was amazing who came to Chelsea and flopped. We don't need to spend 50M on players, especially a player who relies on service to score. (Which he absolutely does).

Here are the top goal-scorers in the Premier League and how much they cost

Suarez-22.8M, Van Persie-24M , Ba-Free, Michu-2M, Defoe-15.75M, Fellaini-15M-Not one costing more than 24M pounds (and Van Persie cost Arsenal about 1M pounds)

The five most expensive strikers in Premier League history

Torres, Shevchenko, Aguero, Robinho, Caroll...4 complete and utter flops out of 5.

This is why the board needs to be better than fans. They need to actually go out and find players that will fit into the (theoretical) manager's vision of the club, not just splurge on whoever the biggest name is.

@FAnta-whoscored.com has very good free access to statistics.

[Jase 43,479]

Falcao has scored just 1 goal in the last 5 La Liga games and even that came from the penalty spot...

[Jase 43,479]

What we saw today from Falcao really was that he offers very little unless he's around the opponents penalty box with a soaring cross coming in or if he has the ball at his feet.

This is where @SeB will say "I told you so!".

Despite Falcao's impressive goalscoring form, is he really what we need if he's just a striker that depends on service or otherwise he won't contribute much elsewhere? I'm sure many will use the reason of that shouldn't be a problem when there are Mata, Hazard and Oscar playing behind but in the really big games where chances don't come often, can he offer anything else upfront? I'm not sure personally.

[Ankit 3,176]

Eduardo Lara (U17 coach of Falcao): "Radamel can drop back into midfield and play with players like Eden Hazard, Juan Mata and Oscar." Lara: "I have no doubt at all that Falcao would fit into that team and that Rafa Benítez would get the best out of him."-Twitter

[Mufassir08 2,400]

I actually feel lewandowski will be best suited to us.He wont come in january so we will have to buy a stop gap type of striker(huntelaar,Llorente) till the summer.Also lewandowski will not cost more then 25m and has already said he wants to play in the BPL.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Well Torres for 50 and Pastore for 40 (to Psg) were flops of decade.

To think that we were close to sign Pastore back then freaks me out even more. Stuck with Torres and Pastore for 90mio would be fucking dissapointing...thank god there are clubs like Psg that have even more clueless boards than us...

[fAnta 107]

Nope, with overhyped I mean everything Falcao does is great, everything Torres does is bad or let aside of consideration.

Torres was subject to one of the worse mediatic bashing or wich hunt of the last 10 years or so. That's a fact.

Falcao sells papers because he's the scoring colombian of an outsider team, doing marvels in Europa League etc... Don't you think medias would be the first to laugh at Roman's expensive purchase if he doesn't scores? Stop being naive

So Atleti spending 40 million for falcao didn't have scrutiny, even halfway people were talking about the money. everything he does has hype because he scores ever game, everything torres does has hype because everyone knows how much he cost, how good he used to be and how bad he is today. Obviously he will be under scrutiny I never said he wouldn't, I said unlike Torres Falcao has the mentality to pull through and will get the goals.we brought torres at the wrong time he was on a downward fall, even when he signed i wanted us to sign aguero as partner but knew it wouldnt be possible. falcao however is at a peak and like rvp who is 29, i have confidence this guy can bring his goals to the league.

[Jype 6,398]

Well Torres for 50 and Pastore for 40 (to Psg) were flops of decade.

To think that we were close to sign Pastore back then freaks me out even more. Stuck with Torres and Pastore for 90mio would be fucking dissapointing...thank god there are clubs like Psg that have even more clueless boards than us...

Oh come on, Pastore's transfer wasn't all that bad, at least when compared to Torres. Pastore is only 23 years old and will improve. Also he still has resale value should PSG decide to get rid of him and his wages aren't too high either so I'm sure there would be a lot of clubs waiting in line to snap him up. Can't say the same for Fernando and we'd be lucky if someone were willing to take him even for free, without us having to pay the majority of his wages till 2016.

[themightyblue 443]

Yes, you know what?

Falcao is more dependent to service than Torres has ever been, especially since Torres adapted his play at Chelsea. That's a fact

I don't even want to discuss it. That's obvious. Feel free to deny facts until noticing that wasn't actually that stupid.

I just want Falcao to come and to hear the hypocrisy about how he suddently needs service (i.e We're Chelsea, we can't play just for fucking Fernando Torres), how he can disappear during games etc...

Cannot free space for others, when he can't ask through space or when he's no support he's useless. Can not keep the ball upfront, I mean in PL he'll get the odd free kick but PL is such a specific place for strikers for that aspect...

Torres gets service here, but he's just not good enough to finish the chances off. We've seen it this season. A lot of striker need service, but the problem of Torres is that he's not good enough anymore. He doesn't make the right runs, he's always static. Our problem is the fact that our strikers can't always put away the chances we get. When we had a striker that wasn't static and was making clever runs (Sturridge vs WBA), did you see how many more chances our team were able to create. Torres hasn't been failing yet again because of service, but because he's not good enough anymore. Our team creates chances, and that is where Falcao comes in