Radamel Falcao

[Henrique 9,133]

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[Henrique 9,133]

People comparing Falcao to Torres before he joined Chelsea are also ridiculous. Torres during 10/11 season was pretty useless, in fact even in 09/10 season he was already fading.

Back then people said he did not have the motivation to play for Liverpool again, because he realized he had tom move to win trophies. Now we know thats wasnt the case.

People moaning about Falcao, are crazy or just trolling.

[Strike 7,474]

People comparing Falcao to Torres before he joined Chelsea are also ridiculous. Torres during 10/11 season was pretty useless, in fact even in 09/10 season he was already fading.

Back then people said he did not have the motivation to play for Liverpool again, because he realized he had tom move to win trophies. Now we know thats wasnt the case.

People moaning about Falcao, are crazy or just trolling.

well the price for Falcao is just absurdly inflated. can't afford him. would rather make 3 signings to freshen up mid and atttack rather than one Falcao in January

[Madmax 9,219]

Opting for anyone apart from the vast majority should be 'an embarrassment' or reveal you as a 'troll or a lunatic'.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

Wrong on just about every count. Torres was not sold because he was worthless, he was sold because we paid 50M pounds. Nobody at that time was saying what you are saying people thought. He was worse the previous 6 months than he was previously, but he wasn't close to as bad as he's been for us.. Shevchenko was the best striker in the world the previous decade. He had led the Champions League in scoring the year before. He had scored 26 or more goals in 3 straight years in a league that was very difficult to score in. He had won the Ballon D'or two seasons before. It's the difference between a striker who was considered one of the best players in the world for about a decade and a striker who is in form.

And why do people compare Falcao to Shevchenko and Torres, simply because of how much Falcao will cost. Hassailbank and Anelka cost under 20M pounds. Drogba cost 24M. Falcao would cost close to 50M. This is the curse of the new Chelsea. Every supporter wants to go out and buy the most expensive player. Villa is worthless! Demba Ba sucks! Grant Holt sucks! Everyone except the flavour of the moment sucks!

@Rmpr-NOBODY is saying that because Shevchenko and Torres failed therefore Falcao will. What we are saying is that anybody can fail even players like Shevchenko and Torres who were regarded as world-class players (the revisionism around here is ridiculous). We have spent so much money as a club that people have insane ideas of market value. You know how many players in the world went for more than 20M pounds this year? Maybe 5-10. 45-50M pounds on one player is insane unless that player is a Ronaldo/Messi/Zidane sort of player. Falcao simply isn't that kind of player. (And as for a tactical analysis, ask SeB, maybe he'll do one for you. The short version for me is that Falcao is a target man, feeds of a system that feeds him. Chelsea don't play in our strikers very much at all and we certainly don't have a team set-up for one player to score. Falcao would score more than Torres because he's a better scorer and Torres misses too many easy goals which Falcao would knock home, but you don't need to spend 50M pounds to get someone better than Torres.

I feel like it's the same thing that happened with Hulk (although I like Falcao more than Hulk) with supporters saying "he's amazing, he'll never fail, he's worth 40M pounds, etc.." If we don't get Falcao, it will be someone else in the summer.

You should do your homework on Torres. The medical staff were quoted when they said "when he left for his physical at Chelsea we were certain he was coming back" He has degenerative knees... And no at the time of the purchase I was irate! it was as plain as day that he lost a half a yard of pace.

Shevy WAS one of the best strikers in the world but when we got him he was he was 30? not exactly a sound purchase point is it? But again Roman bought him because at the time he didn't care if he could only get two years out of him, he deemed it worth it... He would just go back in the window and buy again if it flopped which he did.

I don't believe in curses... If you believe in things that you don't understand you will suffer - Stevie Wonder

[Spike 12,049]

José never really used Sheva properly anyway. Lotss of sub on and off and lots of games on the wing. I think he did that just to spite Roman. Poor Sheva.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

José never really used Sheva properly anyway. Lotss of sub on and off and lots of games on the wing. I think he did that just to spite Roman. Poor Sheva.

Had sheva hit the ground running he would've had more time to find his legs. I really didn't think he was all that bad we all just expected more and at the time Didier was the best striker in the world

[Spike 12,049]

Had sheva hit the ground running he would've had more time to find his legs. I really didn't think he was all that bad we all just expected more and at the time Didier was the best striker in the world

Sheva scored in his debut against Manchester United...

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

Sheva scored in his debut against Manchester United...

community shield... He didn't score again for like 8 or 9 games

[Spike 12,049]

community shield... He didn't score again for like 8 or 9 games

Still counts though doesn't it?

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

Still counts though doesn't it?

ya... sort of.

Drogba was a house on fire that year though.

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

You should do your homework on Torres. The medical staff were quoted when they said "when he left for his physical at Chelsea we were certain he was coming back" He has degenerative knees... And no at the time of the purchase I was irate! it was as plain as day that he lost a half a yard of pace.

Shevy WAS one of the best strikers in the world but when we got him he was he was 30? not exactly a sound purchase point is it? But again Roman bought him because at the time he didn't care if he could only get two years out of him, he deemed it worth it... He would just go back in the window and buy again if it flopped which he did.

I don't believe in curses... If you believe in things that you don't understand you will suffer - Stevie Wonder

You're just making stuff up. Liverpool MAY(don't trust quotes like this) have known about his knees. You didn't. Nobody did. Torres had scored 65 goals in 102 games at Liverpool including 18 in 22 the year before. . He started slowly for Liverpool after his surgery which was to be expected, but he was starting to come on well before we signed him. He scored 1 goal in his first 8 games in the Premier League and then 8 in 15 afterwards including killing us with two. He looked fabulous against us. His runs, his touches, his finishing. It looked like he was just coming back from surgery and was back to where he was before it.This idea that everyone knew that Torres was going to fail is revisionist nonsense. In fact, Torres was much more likely to succeed at that point than Falcao would be coming in as Torres had already proven himself in the Premier League-was PFA team of the year 2 of his 3 years at Liverpool. I never liked the signing because I hate January signings and huge dollar signings have a very high chance of failing, but Torres was still thought of as en elite striker at that point.

[MetsajCFC 1,255]

You can't compare Lewandowski and Falcao... To me, Lewandowski is a big hype, when i watch the games he scores ordinary goals, poacher's goals. Check Falcao's goals. So diverse, so unpredictable, fast as lightning... he is one or two steps up compared to Lewandowski. I'm glad some of you don't compare him to the likes of Cisse and Sturridge...

[Pacquiao 1,834]

You can't compare Lewandowski and Falcao... To me, Lewandowski is a big hype, when i watch the games he scores ordinary goals, poacher's goals. Check Falcao's goals. So diverse, so unpredictable, fast as lightning... he is one or two steps up compared to Lewandowski. I'm glad some of you don't compare him to the likes of Cisse and Sturridge...

so you think Falcao is better because he scores better looking goals than Lewandowski? how can you say Lewy is just big hype??? he is one of the very best strikers in Europe already and has more to his game than Falcao!

[MetsajCFC 1,255]

so you think Falcao is better because he scores better looking goals than Lewandowski? how can you say Lewy is just big hype??? he is one of the very best strikers in Europe already and has more to his game than Falcao!

I think Falcao is better because he is more diverse and in my eyes although he is regarded as the best nr. 9 in the world, he keeps his head down, stays humble. I really value that. I'm not saying Lewandowski is bad, not at all, in fact he is brilliant but he has different attributes to those of Falcao. The age factor doesn't play any role in here, 26 is not even prime age for a footballer - so that won't be a problem when it comes to deciding who is better. I could go as far as say that Falcao has proven himself alot more on bigger stage than Lewandowski, who has only played a handful of games against foreign top clubs. Only team who can challange them in Bundesliga is Bayern Münich and perhaps some other clubs who are on form on that day, other than that it's not very hard for them in the league. Falcao played against top portuguese clubs, won Europa League twice, now plays against Barcelona, Real Madrid, Valencia and even Malaga, and has impressed at every level. Just look at the Super Cup defeat against Atletico in August - he dominated our defence single handedly. Big game player, who ever sings him will get a very good deal, no doubt.

Falcao: Games/goals/ratio of his professional career

Total 301 186 0.62

Europa League top scorer: 2010/2011; 2011/2012

Europa League final man of the match 2011

Europa League final man of the match 2012

UEFA super cup man of the match 2012

Lewandowski: 113 games, 53 goals - ratio of 0.46

Not too much to show for individual efforts, just Polish League merits, DFB Pokal top scorer (7goals)

So it's easy to see who has proven himself, but regardless both can flop but on forums all you can do is debate and the facts are of Falcao's side. Lewandowski has a big potential, Falcao has potential and has also backed it up already on the pitch. If we could sign someone from Dortmund, I'd choose either one of Subotic/Hummels or Reus