Radamel Falcao

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

Having a world class forward in top form won't solve all our problems, but they will make them seem less.

I remember Carlo's first season, i thought for a fair chunk of the season their was clear signs the team was on the way down, what covered up that fact? Didier Drogba's form and goals.

United's team are not great, what's covering that fact?

There are no perfect teams, everyone is wanting in some area on the pitch. Match winners are without a doubt the most important aspect in deciding games, goals win games.

[Hutcho 8,443]

A great Striker can win games single handedly, regardless of the qualiy of the rest of the team. We need one. The building for next season should start with someone like Falcao.

Exactly... uniteds defence has been pretty poor, their midfield is no where near as formidable as it has been, but they have pure quality up front. When we have a striker who can create things for himself, and convert the chances created then it can get the team out of so much trouble... Look at uniteds 3rd choice striker. He is always putting away those chances when his team needs them. Same with Citys' third choice. We don't even have one of those. That is the big difference, and can mean winning those games were you don't play well as a team.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

Take Cole, Terry and Lampard out and we haven't got much in terms of Premier ship experience.

also, remember our start to the season? 1 loss to Clattenburg's ManUre and we never recovered. this side needs leaders on the pitch. enough with the under-23 revolution and go out and sign players in the 24-28 year old bracket

What's the solution to that?

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

do you know what FFP even is? owner's money is quite immaterial. we need to break even without roman's backpocket

Football clubs wishing to take part in the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League must balance their football-related expenditure over a three-year period up to the 2014–15 season

I'm 100% sure the club is aware of this, if we are indeed in for Falcao its because we can afford it! Gourlay mentioned two months ago that there is a huge Sponsorship deal that will be announced in February, I feeling is that coupled with the new TV deal will put FFP concerns to bed

[nadavTKL 1,787]

I just hope it's not a major letdown like last January where we had a bunch of top tier targets and ended up settling for Meireles at the last second.

We got Meireles in the summer. In January we got Cahill, De Bruyne and Piazon.

[Kieran. 6,317]

I'm 100% sure the club is aware of this, if we are indeed in for Falcao its because we can afford it! Gourlay mentioned two months ago that there is a huge Sponsorship deal that will be announced in February, I feeling is that coupled with the new TV deal will put FFP concerns to bed

Yeah, we can afford it if we ignore all of our other glaring needs.

Signing Falcao is so mindblowingly stupid.

[Hutcho 8,443]

Yeah, we can afford it if we ignore all of our other glaring needs.

Signing Falcao is so mindblowingly stupid.

Hardly, mindblowingly stupid...

[CHOULO19 24,332]

So you don't know what our Gazprom deal is worth then? Can we assume that you don't know what our other commercial deals are worth, besides the Samsung and Adidas ones? I'm starting to think that you might not have seen the books in quite some time.

But it's good that despite the complete lack of knowledge of our income you're prepared to say that there is 'no way we can afford this'. Most people would've simply said they don't know, but you've really put your cock on the block and come out with a definitive answer. Congratulations on having the confidence levels of a far more knowledgeable person.

Oh, and we've gone from making heavy losses to actually being in profit whilst amassing a rather impressive pool of young talent, improving our training facilities and also winning the biggest trophy in our club's history. So yeah, I do think they've done a good job.

Obviously very few numbers are known for sure, it's all estimates. By that same logic, how can you want Falcao here when his cost could be 10 billion pounds?

But what we do know is that we made less than 1m profit last year despite the huge CL money and despite spending much much less on transfers than we already have this season, which would make it a fairly logical conclusion to say with some certainty that can't afford Falcao unless one of the numbers involved turned out to be far from from the logical estimate such as the Gazprom deal being for hundreds of million of pounds or the actual price of Falcao being something like 5m instead of 50.

And the success we had, as amazing as it has been, does not mean that the board has done everything perfectly. Would you say that it was a good job to pay 50m and 175k/wk for Torres because we managed to win the CL eve though he contributed next to nothing to that achievement?

Point is there are countless variables to our success and it does not mean that we got every one of the right. There are some decisions, especially financially and in transfers, that have been terrible, at least in my opinion.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

What this CHOULO guy is talking about financial fair play? Did he say the same thing when we paid 18m for Lukaku and 32m for Hazard, who was even more expensive than Juan Mata?

Yes I did, you can go back to the threads and check. And what do those deals have to do with this? Are you saying that because we over-paid and were ripped off for many deals in the past we should allow ourselves to be ripped off and pay over the top for Falcao as well?!

[Hutcho 8,443]

I'll elaborate, with a question...

How is signing arguably the second best finisher in the world mindblowingly stupid?

Now you will say, we need a DM, etc, but a striker has got to be the number one priority. We can be more solid at the back but we will still miss a lot of chances and have trouble in attack, or we can convert those chances, and be more like the man u clubs... yes we all hate them and they concede, but they are both several points ahead of us mainly due to world class strikers. I would rather win games 4-2 than draw some 0-0, with the occasional win 1-0.

We have conceded 17 that is only higher than man city who have concede 2 less goals than us... Man utd have conceded 7 more goals than us... But man u have scored 15 more goals than us.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

Yeah, we can afford it if we ignore all of our other glaring needs.

Signing Falcao is so mindblowingly stupid.

Match winner is the most glaring of all and truly there aren't that many out there that are available. Goals win games not Modric.... Look at Utd, they had Rooney, Chica, Welbeck, Berba and they still ignored their concerns in the midfield and grabbed one of the worlds best strikers.

I believe Falcao will have more of an affect on our ability to win games than a CM, LB and cheap CF.

Also you don't know what our financial situation is, as I've said before Gourlay said a couple months ago that there is a big sponsorship deal int he works that will be announced in Feb. With that and the new TV deal we probably won't even have to worry about FFP... We could easily sell the naming rights to the Bridge too(not ideal but definitely an option if we're ever in a pickle)

Signing Falcao is an unbelievably excellent move for a big club! He is without a doubt the worlds best finisher. Remember when Drogba was winning everything for us singlehandedly? ya that!

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

I'll elaborate, with a question...

How is signing arguably the second best finisher in the world mindblowingly stupid?

Now you will say, we need a DM, etc, but a striker has got to be the number one priority. We can be more solid at the back but we will still miss a lot of chances and have trouble in attack, or we can convert those chances, and be more like the man u clubs... yes we all hate them and they concede, but they are both several points ahead of us mainly due to world class strikers. I would rather win games 4-2 than draw some 0-0, with the occasional win 1-0.

We have conceded 17 that is only higher than man city who have concede 2 less goals than us... Man utd have conceded 7 more goals than us... But man u have scored 15 more goals than us.

Exactly! GOALS WIN GAMES not Modric or Moutinho... We need goals our Defense only looks leaky because we don't have enough goals up top