Radamel Falcao

[zolayes 14,489]

I went to a school that was that bad even the teachers sneaked off......I only went in for three lessons.

that could explain a lot

[Special Juan 27,439]

that could explain a lot

[DDA 9,689]

I went to a school that was that bad even the teachers sneaked off......I only went in for three lessons.

You and me both breadbin!

[johnnythefirst 1,076]

Didn't read up on him at all, didn't see any matches of him this year, but my gut feeling says he'll become Torres the sequel if you buy him now.

[DH1988 1,304]

I think the signing, on loan, Falcao would be perfect for us.

He has already made clear in recent weeks that this recovered from his injury and his main problem is Van Gaal, a very stubborn man.

I remember Diego Costa is playing with caution for his injury in the hamstring, and he can not play two games a week.

Remy is a great player, but he has not shown to be well physically.

As for Drogba, I think it would be very unfair to demand Didier something more than it has already given us. He may be important in big games in defining moments, but to a hypothetical injury of Diego Costa, we may suffer too much,

I think Falcao in serious loan perfect because he is a pure striker Pure centre, capable of scoring goals without him having a lot of space, the would ask not always be in the starting eleven if he plays regularly, he knows perfectly Diego Costa and they they can play together.

He is 28 years old and many great players have had major injuries and recovered to take back their high level. And Falcao has such great winning mentality and sure that he only thinks again be a TOP player.

Now the Real Madrid already this pose immediate signing this market in January, otherwise it is now, they will return to try their loan in summer, for sure.

I share your fears to repeat again the signing of Torres, that would be horrible, I did not want to imagine it, but Torres has never been even half of the player who has been Falcao. I think Falcao can not compare with Torres. TOP Torres never been a player, Torres was only a pseudo-great player, a scam that he looked great because he played for Liverpool, and in Liverpool is easier seem a great player.

Falcao is a different player, and if we have in our team both players Diego Costa and Falcao, we may rotate them both and avoid injury all season long.

I understand and share those fears after the nightmare with Torres, but Falcao is another type of player with an immense winning mentality.

He's made it clear he's recovered from his injury? Why would he say otherwise and decrease his market value as he's on LOAN. Falcao has to say all the right things in the public media no matter what.

It's because lvg is stubborn? No its most likely due to the fact that he's not performing well in training and not doing the business. A coach sees day in day out let alone the potential muddied loan deal that was struck, who knows if they have add ons and bonuses attached to the loan deal? Nobody knows that until the end of the season.

Right now he looks like a shadow of himself. When I watch him in matches do I think he is currently worth a big transfer fee as Monaco are not mugs despite some potential money issues, no he's not. Do I think he justifies his enormous wages to consider taking him on a loan basis? Nope not even half.

Not a big believer in loan deals, never feel like you get the players full attention.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

Looking back so glad we dodged this bullet, no wonder no one was interested in him...£285k per week and 10m loan fee + 40m for permanent. The Atletico version is gone for good, replaced by a look-a-like with same facial expression but a fraction of the ability.

[supporter 3,088]

He's made it clear he's recovered from his injury? Why would he say otherwise and decrease his market value as he's on LOAN. Falcao has to say all the right things in the public media no matter what.

It's because lvg is stubborn? No its most likely due to the fact that he's not performing well in training and not doing the business. A coach sees day in day out let alone the potential muddied loan deal that was struck, who knows if they have add ons and bonuses attached to the loan deal? Nobody knows that until the end of the season.

Right now he looks like a shadow of himself. When I watch him in matches do I think he is currently worth a big transfer fee as Monaco are not mugs despite some potential money issues, no he's not. Do I think he justifies his enormous wages to consider taking him on a loan basis? Nope not even half.

Not a big believer in loan deals, never feel like you get the players full attention.

This message was to answer DH1988. Sorry, I forgot to give "Quote". I agree with you on many things that you say, it is a very quite understandable reasoning. I agree that the operation of Falcao could be very dangerous for us. and I do not believe in the policy of loans for our team (loans only for our players on other teams, I think).

But I think the risk of the operation of Falcao would be very mitigated this risk if the operation is not a permanent transfer and if a loan for a year or two (one full season and half of the current season). I think if we get to Falcao on loan by that time and we have a clause for its final signing if we want (for a reasonable amount), I think it would be an interesting operation. If in the summer of 2016 we definitely do not want to sign Falcao, we may reject your final signing. Right now, both Monaco and Falcao are not able to be demanding in a hypothetical negotiations with us, because the president of Monaco does not want to invest money and he is by dismantling your computer, and also Falcao has created many doubts about their performance . I think we could get a good price if we get to Falcao on loan and we pay your salary only (not the loan would cost us anything because they no longer want to have Facao).

Regarding Falcao and if he may be lying about their true physical condition to get make a big deal, I'm quite sure that Falcao would never do this. I have read many interviews Falcao and many reports on television with and about Falcao and he is a profoundly honest person. Last summer, with all their country (Colombia) willing to wait for him even if not fully recovered from his injury, even Falcao train with Colombia until the last day to announce that players went to the World Cup, he was honest and acknowledged that no I was fine and that he preferred to another colleague was finally to the World Cup in place, which means for a player to miss the World Cup. Falcao could have lied and have played the world without being fully recovered from his injury just to earn more money in terms of advertising and merchandising (Falcao is one of the players with more commercial impact of all South America). Falcao was honest and he lied to anyone. I think he is someone whom we can trust if we want to get his loan.

In addition, severe knee injuries have a total recovery time of 12 months and it's been a year since Falcao was injured in Monaco, and he is a very committed player regarding the care of their physical condition. I think from now will see a much improved Falcao in the physical aspect. He perhaps did too much effort getting to play the World Cup. This physical wear maybe he has too overloaded and at the beginning of this season he has played at times looking like a robot with his physical condition quite rusty.

But I think Falcao month has been shown to have recovered pretty good performance, improving slowly (I put videos on this thread of his last games). I think from now on its performance will again be as in the past.

I think his main problem is Van Gaal. This man is always very stubborn, with a very checkered mind and very uncompromising. He has struggled in Spain, Germany and now in England (he also had problems with his personality coaching Netherlands).

Jose Mourinho is different, he has coached in four countries with four different cultures and Jose has been successful in all these countries (Champion of the league and cup in the four countries, he has come to Semifinals Champions League with four different teams four different countries and has won two Champions League with two different teams in two different countries). I think Falcao may be suffering problems of adaptation to the Premier League (the rhythm of the game in England is very different from the pace of the game in Spain or Portugal). I think he would get a better understanding of the Premier League with Jose as coach, as he has done this year with Diego Costa.

And regarding his move to Monaco, Falcao never wanted to play for Monaco, but its federal rights belong to Jorge Mendes, Falcao does not decide his future, decides Jorge Mendes. He wanted to join Real Madrid, but Jorge Mendes preferred to first take him to Monaco (2013), and he following year (2014) Jorge Mendes pretended to take him to Real Madrid and the way Jorge Mendes made money thanks to the percentage that he charges per signing. Jorge Mendes has only thought about your business and not on Falcao.

I think that this month we have the opportunity to get a player who very recently was one of the best strikers in the world. He is very young still, he only has 28. If he had not been injured, I'm sure Falcao would be now playing at Real Madrid with Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale. Florentino Perez is very intelligent and he is already thinking about signing Falcao for next season.

We must seize this opportunity. Falcao and Diego Costa are perfectly compatible in our team. Diego Costa plays better with spaces and spaces Falcao not need to make a goal. Your loan would give us the possibility of having a striker for each situation according to our competitors do every game.

I think we have to seize this opportunity.

Regards.

[supporter 3,088]

Sorry if I insist too much, but I think Falcao is recovering his best performance. He has 5 occasions very simple of goal and he does not make a goal, it is true, but he generates many occasions. Perhaps the fact that no target Falcao goals is because he has his sagging morale, and surely that is because of Van Gaal.

I see a Falcao generating occasions, he fights all over the pitch, and he helps his teammates. Often for strikers goals are like a pot of ketchup; Sometimes it does not appear however much you try, but after they come all at once.

I think training every day with Jose, Falcao probably benching security in itself and he would return to be the big centre forward he proved to be before his injury a center forward with great killer instinct to get the goal. Falcao is always well placed on the pitch and in the box.

I think his problem is anxiety, he generates a lot of chances of gol but did not have the comfort needed to make a goal.

I leave the video of his match of today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCFg3sMjLvs

Regards.

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Sorry if I insist too much, but I think Falcao is recovering his best performance. He has 5 occasions very simple of goal and he does not make a goal, it is true, but he generates many occasions. Perhaps the fact that no target Falcao goals is because he has his sagging morale, and surely that is because of Van Gaal.

I see a Falcao generating occasions, he fights all over the pitch, and he helps his teammates. Often for strikers goals are like a pot of ketchup; Sometimes it does not appear however much you try, but after they come all at once.

I think training every day with Jose, Falcao probably benching security in itself and he would return to be the big centre forward he proved to be before his injury a center forward with great killer instinct to get the goal. Falcao is always well placed on the pitch and in the box.

I think his problem is anxiety, he generates a lot of chances of gol but did not have the comfort needed to make a goal.

I leave the video of his match of today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCFg3sMjLvs

Regards.

They faced one of the worst defences in Europe, though... Every team has at least four or five huge chances (goals not included) against QPR week-in, week-out.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

They faced one of the worst defences in Europe, though... Every team has at least four or five huge chances (goals not included) against QPR week-in, week-out.

Lol, about to said the same thing

QPR is shit, that's all

[Hostedenis 556]

Looking back so glad we dodged this bullet, no wonder no one was interested in him...£285k per week and 10m loan fee + 40m for permanent. The Atletico version is gone for good, replaced by a look-a-like with same facial expression but a fraction of the ability.

Dude, I remember you this summer as being the main guy on this forum telling everyone we needed to sign Falcao. Some including me told you that his wages were to high and his loan fee was outrageous, and that he wasn't the same Falcao as in his Atleti days and you even got angry with me and others when we said these things.

If by saying "glad we dodged this bullet" you mean you didn't see the bullet coming and are glad you dodged it, you've seen the light I'm happy you did. If you however mean "no wonder no one was interested in him" as "it was so obvious he was going to flop" then I'm sorry for you but you've completely did a 180 to how you thought just a few months ago or so...

Posted by MrBlueGuy on 18 June 2014

Actually Falcao for 25-35m is better than Costa at 32m

Posted by MrBlueGuy on 29 August 2014

What, you are afraid that Costa won't be happy because he won't be the main man if another player as good or better than him arrives?

[rantdeville 195]

Sorry if I insist too much, but I think Falcao is recovering his best performance. He has 5 occasions very simple of goal and he does not make a goal, it is true, but he generates many occasions. Perhaps the fact that no target Falcao goals is because he has his sagging morale, and surely that is because of Van Gaal.

I see a Falcao generating occasions, he fights all over the pitch, and he helps his teammates. Often for strikers goals are like a pot of ketchup; Sometimes it does not appear however much you try, but after they come all at once.

I think training every day with Jose, Falcao probably benching security in itself and he would return to be the big centre forward he proved to be before his injury a center forward with great killer instinct to get the goal. Falcao is always well placed on the pitch and in the box.

I think his problem is anxiety, he generates a lot of chances of gol but did not have the comfort needed to make a goal.

I leave the video of his match of today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCFg3sMjLvs

Regards.

We just now found a striker with goals in him after nearly 5 years without. Barking up the wrong tree trying to sell a hard-working, (relatively) old, post-knee-op, outrageously expensive striker who can't score. Not only that, but the whole confidence-based striker who gets hurt feelings and can't score under a particular coach...nah. No one here has time for that.

4 years trying to tell ourselves that Torres linked up play and worked well off the ball but didn't work cuz the "system."

No más.

[Hostedenis 556]

We just now found a striker with goals in him after nearly 5 years without. Barking up the wrong tree trying to sell a hard-working, (relatively) old, post-knee-op, outrageously expensive striker who can't score.

Couldn't agree more :tophat:

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

God knows how we won trophies with Torres in the team. Now clubs like United and Liverpool know exactly how it was for us these past few years.

[supporter 3,088]

We just now found a striker with goals in him after nearly 5 years without. Barking up the wrong tree trying to sell a hard-working, (relatively) old, post-knee-op, outrageously expensive striker who can't score. Not only that, but the whole confidence-based striker who gets hurt feelings and can't score under a particular coach...nah. No one here has time for that.

4 years trying to tell ourselves that Torres linked up play and worked well off the ball but didn't work cuz the "system."

No más.

Let's see ... I NEVER, NEVER, NEVER have said that I want for us to do the signing Radamel like Falcao to change it by / to remove Diego Costa on our starting eleven. That would be a real madness. IMPOSSIBLE. Diego Costa is our Centre-striker without any type of doubt. No one exchange Diego Costa by Radamel Falcao now. This is obvious.

What I mean to say is that Jose always uses 2 great strikers per season in all its equipment. Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and now in Chelsea.

Jose always 3/4 front on their trams, and always two of them are big Centre-striker, as you can see below.

Radamel Falcao is not having a great season, of course, obvious, but he has been a great player for many years, being the only one that will stand the fight to Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, and even Roman Abramovich and Florentino Perez would have paid any amount to have him on their teams.

Falcao ONLY have 28 years old. Sometimes it seems that he is 35 years old, but Falcao has only 28 years old. He is young and a knee injury to a player with the mentality and physical strength of like Falcao this is not going to retire early.

We have to forget us about Fernando Torres and his ghost. Torres is past, we give thanks for his goal against Barcelona that allowed us to be at the Final of our first Champions League. Thanks for everything and see you later.

But Torres has not had the same knee injury that Radamel Falcao, Torres was operated in April and in June he was playing the World Cup with Spain in the starting eleven World champion team. His injuries are very different.

But above all, it is IMPOSSIBLE to compare Radamel Falcao with Fernando Torres. You can not set any comparison. Falcao has become a TOP PLAYER, and Fernando Torres is one of the most overrated in the history of football players. Torres was just in the right place at the most opportune moment 4/5 times in his career. Falcao has been incredible.

I do not speak of Falcao as our only chance. There are also many other good Centre-striker in the market. Not only exite the possibility of Falcao, there are many other good players, and even our team and the market is looking for new Centre-striker like Icardi, talist ... The coaching staff of Jose Mourinho knows that Drogba is in the final of his glorious career (Didier became part of the same coaching staff next season) and Remy is more a winger. (like many other forum members also think about Remy).

They are intelligent and are looking for our team to have the next season Diego Costa as our main Centre-striker and another Centre-striker with great quality, goal, and that he can play in tight spaces. Besides having to Remy as third choice between Centre-striker and winger.

I do not speak of Falcao as our only chance. There are also many other good Centre-striker in the market. We do not have only the possibility of Falcao, there are many other good players, and even our team and the market is looking for new Centre-striker like Icardi, talist ... The coaching staff of Jose Mourinho knows that Drogba is in the final of his glorious career (Didier became part of the same coaching staff next season) and Remy is more a winger. (like many other forum members also think about Remy).

It's simple, Jose always 3/4 Centre-striker in ALL their equipment, and ALWAYS he has 2 TOP Centre-striker. If you look the following information is quite simple to understand.

Mourinho's Porto 2002-2003. FW 1. Derlei. FW 2. Benny McCarthy. FW 3. Edgaras Jankauskas.

Mourinho's Porto 2003-2004. FW 1. Carlos Alberto. FW 2. Derlei. FW 3. Benny McCarthy.

Mourinho's Chelsea 2004-2005. FW 1. Didier Drogba. FW 2. Mateja Kežman. FW 3. Eiðyour Guðjohnsen. FW 4. Adrian Mutu (released).

Mourinho's Chelsea 2005-2006. FW 1. Didier Drogba. FW 2. Hernán Crespo. FW 3. Eiðyour Guðjohnsen. FW 4. Scott Sinclair.

Mourinho's Chelsea 2005-2006. FW 1. Didier Drogba. FW 2. Andriy Shevchenko. FW 3. Salomon Kalou. FW 4. Scott Sinclair.

Mourinho's Chelsea 2006-2007. FW 1. Didier Drogba. FW 2. Andriy Shevchenko. FW 3. Claudio Pizarro. FW 4. Salomon Kalou. This year Scott Sinclair moved on to playing as a winger, as I believe it will happen with Remy.

Mourinho's Internazionale Milano 2008-2009. FW 1. Ibrahimović. FW 2. Crespo. FW 3. Cruz. FW 4. Balotelli. FW 5. Adriano.

Mourinho's Internazionale Milano 2009-2010. FW 1. Eto'o. FW 2. Milito. FW 3. Balotelli. FW 4. Pandev.

Mourinho's Real Madrid 2010-2011. FW 1. Benzema. FW 2. Higuain. FW 3. Adebayor. FW 4. Morata. Jose also had an attacker like Cristiano Ronaldo ...

Mourinho's Real Madrid 2011-2012. FW 1. Benzema. FW 2. Higuain. FW 3. Morata. Jose also had an attacker like Cristiano Ronaldo ...

Mourinho's Real Madrid 2012-2013. FW 1. Benzema. FW 2. Higuain. FW 3. Morata. Jose also had an attacker like Cristiano Ronaldo ...

Mourinho's Chelsea 2013-2014. FW 1. Eto'o. FW 2. Torres. FW 3. Ba.

Mourinho's Chelsea 2014-2015. FW 1. Diego Costa. FW 2. Didier Drogba. FW 3. Remy.

I do not care if Falcao or other TOP PLAYER, but I want two Centre-strike TOP this season and the next in our team. I think having our team to two Centre-striker makes both players have competition every day, every practice and every game. In this type of situation, both players feed back each other and this makes them both have a better performance. Thus you have two Centre-striker who know that every day they have to pay at its maximum level or they become backed up your partner. This feeds the competitiveness of a team, and meritocracy appears, the player only plays when he is the best.

Diego Costa has had some moments this season in which he was not at its highest level, but he was still playing every game in our starting eleven because there was another Centre-back from his spectacular level. If we had had a great player as backup for Diego Costa, I am sure that Diego had struggled much more in these small stages of the season in which he has not been good.

For example. If we had to Falcao on our team ... On Tuesday Diego Costa could play against Liverpool at Anfield. In FA CUP would play Radamel Falcao, would play against Liverpool at home or Falcao Diego Costa depending on the outcome of the first game, and Saturday against Manchester City player would play you had better performance in games. Absolute competition every day, our Centre-striker giving their best performance every minute, every move to be in the next game in the starting eleven.

Pure meritocracy

I'd rather have a team where what matters is meritocracy and not have a team where Centre-striker plays every game in the starting eleven because we do not have a TOP backup at this time (Didier Drogba will always be a glorious legend, but we can not demand him to 36 years of age he still be a TOP PLAYER).

To conclude and summarize, I think Falcao would be our best option to have a second Centre-striker in our team as always wants Jose on their teams

1. In matches this season but we have been against teams that are locked up behind a deadbolt and left no options. I think Falcao is an expert in playing in small spaces, and does not need much space for overall chances. The lack of space is the main problem for Diego Costa. No spaces lower yields.

2. Having two centre-striker like Radamel Falcao and Diego Costa makes to our team more professional and competence. If someone is not competent that person tends to be in a position accommodated without pressure. The pressure increases competition and competitiveness, and result in meritocracy.

3. Diego Costa and Radamel Falcao were a perfect mate at Atletico de Madrid. They understood without looking them in the eye. Falcao was a teacher for Diego Costa, and Diego deeply admired. Respect including guaranteed. In addition, this pair of centre-back would give us a tactic chance that we do not have, the chance to play with two Centre-striker in certain games or certain time. It would be another way to try to broke the defend of our rivals.

4. Radamel Falcao was injured along one year ago, and those injuries take a year to be fully recovered. From now see your best performance.

5. Its price would be low. He is on loan at Manchester United because the Monaco can no longer pay his salary. The president of Monaco has just divorced his wife a billionaire divorce, and he is reducing the maximum their expenses in Monaco. Falcao and Monaco are in no position to demand anything in this negotiation. They are trying to go on loan Falcao that market January even if Manchester United break the loan agreement. In Spain very reliable reports speak of Seville and Valencia (a team of Jorge Mendes) want your loan and Falcao's salary would drop to £ 6.11 million (€ 8 million). If we get a loan with option to definitely buy if we are happy with the performance of Falcao, we can buy him. But if we do not want, we do not buy him.

6. Its price would be low. He is on loan at Manchester United because the Monaco can no longer pay his salary. The president of Monaco has just divorced his wife a billionaire divorce, and he is reducing the maximum their expenses in Monaco. Falcao and Monaco are in no position to demand anything in this negotiation. They are trying to go on loan Falcao that market January even if Manchester United break the loan agreement. In Spain very reliable reports speak of Seville and Valencia (a team of Jorge Mendes) want your loan and Falcao's salary would drop to £ 6.11 million (€ 8 million). If we get a loan with option to definitely buy if we are happy with the performance of Falcao, we would have a great striker with a base salary in relation price / quality.

7. Falcao can play Champions League with us this season. His presence in our team would help us to have greater ability to rotate players.

8. I think his problem is becouse of anxiety, he generates a lot of chances of gol but did not have the comfort needed to make a goal. Often for strikers goals are like a pot of ketchup; Sometimes it does not appear however much you try, but after they come all at once.

But ok, if nobody wants to Falcao and our team thinks the same, and finally we signed him another Centre-striker, I accept it, but I want to see in our Team Two TOP Centre-striker which have competition, competitiveness and how important daily is always meritocracy.

To FINISH, Diego Costa has been, is and will be my first and only choice for our preferred Centre-striker in the starting eleven. Diego is the best Centre-striker in the world.

Dieeego! Dieeego! Dieeeego! Dieeego! Dieeego! Dieeego! Dieego! Dieeego!

Regards.

Edited January 18, 2015 by supporter

[Special Juan 27,439]

at him yesterday.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

So glad we didn't sign him. Some great, great strikers are just not cut out to play in the Premier League. And a lot of those players are South American, i.e. Crespo (though I did rate him), Diego Forlan, etc.

[dkim2 73]

Face it. He's done. 3 knee surgeries so far in his career. He has some issues about faking his age (though it is just a rumor) I bet his knee would be that of 50yrs old. I'm fucking glad Falcao (who was miserable with Monaco playing inferior French league) signed with ManU and hope them to sign him permanently. Can you imagine this joke Falcao is making 4 times more than Matic? lol