Radamel Falcao

[OneMoSalah 8,885]

Things that AREN'T going for us in this deal:

• Real Madrid are our rivals in this deal
• Claudio Ranieri and the vice-president claim that he is happy at Monaco
• He's expensive as sh*t (January or in the summer)

Things going for us in this deal:

• Falcao was promised £14 million/year but is only going to receive £7 million/year.... (Thats where the news of "Falcao is unsettled" stemmed from I believe)
• Monaco are looking to offload him to comply with the UEFA financial Fair Play regulations
• Mourinho and Falcao share an agent
• Dmitry Rybolovlev (owner of Monaco) and Roman Abramovich are fellow Russian billionaires and they could smooth the way for a transfer
• He's eligible to play in the Champions league for us (You would think he'd want to play at the very top level before he leads his team to the World Cup)

Sorry but because he shares an agent you think that will give us an advantage in a sense? Jose shares an agent with Ronaldo but there is no chance in hell of us signing him, if thats the case then we have the possibility of signing about 50 top players because they share an agent with Jose.

Also because the two owners are Russian you think that will smooth it out? How? There is no possible chance that he will 'smooth the way' for transfer, they bought him for 60m do you think hes going to say 'Roman my friend, I don't know you but your Russian so here offer me £40 million monies for Radamel and I will give him to you' ....

The thing that is going against this is that apparently Jose has been told he will not be given money to invest in January. He wants to sell all 3 strikers apparently as well, which I can't see happening, especially if he won't be given a lot of money to get strikers in January. Who is going to sell their striker in January? Dortmund won't, they said they would rather lose Lewa on a free than sell him, Monaco won't sell Falcao in January as they want CL football, Porto are in a 3 way title race they need Martinez to stay until May as well... so its quite impossible looking at it

[mediator 2,026]

He didn't play last week end, and is not training with the team.

Could be on his way to push for a january transfer.

Give Monaco 50M + Torres and everybody would be happy

[Mufassir08 2,400]

He didn't play last week end, and is not training with the team.

Why?

[mediator 2,026]

Why?

According to the Monaco forum, old slight injury contracted when he was in Madrid until the end of December...

The fans on this forum are scared that he played his last game before going to... chelsea.

May be same kind of (fake) injury that Sturridge "suffered" before going to Liverpool.

That says that he is not really injured but feeled some pain.

I know nothing reliable at all, but worth a read if you understand some french http://asmforum.fr/topic/38069-radamel-falcao/page-158

[yuvala 2,167]

dont get your hopes up just yet ...

[haranr 485]

dont get your hopes up just yet ...

Don't tell us what to do

[Namika 922]

There's something up with Falcao. He hasn't played with Monaco since Ranieri took him off in a Ligue 1 game four weeks ago. They said he had a thigh injury but he was fine when he took him off. The club don't want to speak about it and Ranieri says one thing about it one week and another the next week.

L'equipe today: http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/826/whsb.jpg http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8627/m76y.jpg

All this Monaco thing seems weird, almost all the players that Monaco bought are managed by Jorge Mendes, maybe he made some deal with Rybolovlev.

[WilsonMay 12]

There's something up with Falcao. He hasn't played with Monaco since Ranieri took him off in a Ligue 1 game four weeks ago. They said he had a thigh injury but he was fine when he took him off. The club don't want to speak about it and Ranieri says one thing about it one week and another the next week.

L'equipe today: http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/826/whsb.jpg http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8627/m76y.jpg

All this Monaco thing seems weird, almost all the players that Monaco bought are managed by Jorge Mendes, maybe he made some deal with Rybolovlev.

That is so weird!

[Waterfall 893]

Here's what you do:

Buy Zouma, send him and one of our current strikers out on loan to Monaco

Get Falcao on loan

Re-evaluate the striker situation in summer when Lukaku comes back.

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Here's what you do:

Buy Zouma, send him and one of our current strikers out on loan to Monaco

Get Falcao on loan

Re-evaluate the striker situation in summer when Lukaku comes back.

Got no idea where you get the idea that Monaco wanted Zouma from, if they wanted they could just buy him themselves.

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

If we did get him on loan with an option to buy in the summer, that would be perfect.

We wouldn't have wasted money on a fee is he turns out to be utter gash. Not much pressure on him too

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

Something is happening.

Yes, he's going to Real

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

No he is staying. lol

If he leaves it's to Real. My opinion, of course..

[nyikolajevics 2,690]

If he leaves it's to Real. My opinion, of course..

Real would be brutal with him.. CR, Isco and Bale behind him. Ancelotti will build a great team in Madrid.

[The Skipper 20,609]

I think Benzema is better than Falcao personally.