Radamel Falcao

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

According to the guardian -

£4m loan fee

£170,000 a week wages

£35m option to buy

[chrismada9 1,948]

According to the guardian -

£170,000 a week wages

[CHOULO19 24,332]

its not just guardian. a lot of sources have said that we will be paying half of his wages, and it makes sense. united paid 7mil for the fee, we are paying 4mil, MAKES SENSE.

we play 4 competitions, we will be looking to win 4 competitions, last season, when costa was out, we looked downright poor at times. i am trying to look at it objectively. jose knows what he did last season, how tired our players looked in jan and feb itself. he would not want to make the same mistake again. even in the post season friendly, jose played remy as a RW rather than a striker, which seems fair enough to me. he will be our versatile player, can fit in whereever needed. so no, i dont think falcao has been brought to replace remy. and yes, i definitely think that we did not need a drogba like 3rd striker. we needed someone far more competitive. someone who can push costa to the perform better, falcao will do that. people think that just cos he had one poor season and just cos we had the similar thing we torres, they will go exactly the same. bullshit!!!! try being a little objective here.

So the biggest flop in the league last season who had been hibernating in France the year before and who had an injury that has practically ended the careers of many footballers is "more competitive" and can "push Costa" more than Remy who was probably the best back up striker in Europe last season? And you're asking ME to be objective?!

Yes, it is completely normal to assume that someone who just had a beyond terrible season will more likely have a season closer to that one than the excellent season he had 3 years ago. I acknowledge that he could have a season similar to the one he had 3 years ago, but that is not as likely as having a bad season like the one he just had. THAT is a much better assumption than the baseless one that he will get to his top form automatically.

[didierforever 7,349]

So the biggest flop in the league last season who had been hibernating in France the year before and who had an injury that has practically ended the careers of many footballers is "more competitive" and can "push Costa" more than Remy who was probably the best back up striker in Europe last season? And you're asking ME to be objective?!

Yes, it is completely normal to assume that someone who just had a beyond terrible season will more likely have a season closer to that one than the excellent season he had 3 years ago. I acknowledge that he could have a season similar to the one he had 3 years ago, but that is not as likely as having a bad season like the one he just had. THAT is a much better assumption than the baseless one that he will get to his top form automatically.

thats right, remy was the bestest back up striker in the whole of the universe. i mean he scored a whole of 7 goals and our manager trusted him so much that he chose a 37 year old DD before remy. i like remy, i want him to be here for the next season, but he is nowhere near costa or falcao.

hibernating in france? you mean in the team that went beyond us in CL last season, scoring 13 goals in 22 games? i mean i guess, rvp was awesome when he almost single handedly won united their 20th league title, so all assumptions mean that he will be even better next season, right? thank god, real life and our manager's mind does not work in such a linear fashion. he can actually see that form can be gained back and that the class is still there.

[lucio 5,418]

Apart from Petre, I have not seen one person saying he did alright. I cannot see how anyone think he done good. Guitterez, Falcao's strike partner was much better. Constantly linking up play and causing problems. As BBC put in the best words, he was a peripheral figure for majority of the game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33085574

I looked at the goal player ratings . Said he workedhard to find space and get involved . but i didn't watch it so , nothing i can say

[chrismada9 1,948]

My fear and what is seeming increasingly likely is that Falcao is being brought to replace Remy which would be beyond terrible and risky business.

I honestly think you have a right to see that as an outright fear, as I feel exactly the same! I thought Remy last season fit the bill as a second striker to Costa. He literally scored every time he was either brought on as a sub, or played the entire game because of an injury to Costa.

Remy is guaranteed a goal when he comes on! To put it bluntly, he's our super-sub .. I look at Falcao, and all he is to me, is a player that won't fit in anywhere, will need some time to find his form (which will probably take up half the season), and someone who, despite the huge pay cut, still has a big wage to pay every week!

[Stats 7,136]

thats right, remy was the bestest back up striker in the whole of the universe. i mean he scored a whole of 7 goals and our manager trusted him so much that he chose a 37 year old DD before remy. i like remy, i want him to be here for the next season, but he is nowhere near costa or falcao.

hibernating in france? you mean in the team that went beyond us in CL last season, scoring 13 goals in 22 games? i mean i guess, rvp was awesome when he almost single handedly won united their 20th league title, so all assumptions mean that he will be even better next season, right? thank god, real life and our manager's mind does not work in such a linear fashion. he can actually see that form can be gained back and that the class is still there.

Come of it. Do you really think Falcao would have had the same impact at us last season like Remy did in his limited appearances or vice-versa, Remy would have scored much more goals for United last season if he was playing. I would take Remy over Falcao 100%. He might of not been the level of Falcao of Atletico, but now that is just an absurd statement. Remy is a quality striker. You have seemed to downplay Remy's qualities because a 37 year old striker was played ahead of him. So does that mean KDB is worse than Oscar who you are not a big fan of because Mourinho chose him over KDB??

[WhatsTheMatic? 28]

That's a 12.8m pounds investment in just one year! To put that into perspective, last season Remy cost us about half of that (6-7m) and Didier cost us just 4-5m. Remy's transfer fee over his 4-year contract length is less than that loan fee!

Only Costa and Fabregas will cost us more on next season's books. Hazard about the same. That is INSANE!

Hazard is the highest paid player on our books though?

[Steve 10,227]

A signing I would of loved four seasons a go. Hopefully the lad can still produce when needed. Having serious knee problems myself I know how hard it is to come back from them after surgery...

[Unionjack 7,531]

OK Falcao didn't have his best game last night and he seemed to be gasping for air 1/2 way thru the 1st half but he wasn't used. None of his players got the ball to him. We have got lads that can do that.

I'm nervous about this too but the transfers not gone thru yet. His medical is supposedly after the Copa. TBH I would take injury prone Remy over him but Ive never felt that Mou had any love for him and I cant see him being round much longer.

I know these 2 will probably not be round neither next season but what did you guys think about the lack of love between Filipe and Cuadrado last night?

[CHOULO19 24,332]

thats right, remy was the bestest back up striker in the whole of the universe. i mean he scored a whole of 7 goals and our manager trusted him so much that he chose a 37 year old DD before remy. i like remy, i want him to be here for the next season, but he is nowhere near costa or falcao.

hibernating in france? you mean in the team that went beyond us in CL last season, scoring 13 goals in 22 games? i mean i guess, rvp was awesome when he almost single handedly won united their 20th league title, so all assumptions mean that he will be even better next season, right? thank god, real life and our manager's mind does not work in such a linear fashion. he can actually see that form can be gained back and that the class is still there.

Remy had the best minutes per goal ratio in the entire league last season with a goal every 99 minutes followed by Aguero with a every 100 minutes. Falcao had a goal every...wait for it...325 minutes. And that's without counting his FA cup and League Cup appearances where he failed to score anything.

Mate, you're clutching at straws here..

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

[didierforever 7,349]

Remy had the best minutes per goal ratio in the entire league last season with a goal every 99 minutes followed by Aguero with a every 100 minutes. Falcao had a goal every...wait for it...325 minutes. And that's without counting his FA cup and League Cup appearances where he failed to score anything.

Mate, you're clutching at straws here..

costa had an awesome minutes/goal ratio until he lost his purple patch and then had a lean patch. its easier to score 7 goals in 700 minutes than 20 goals in 2000 minutes.

again, remy was very good, and should be with us next season, but just having costa and remy for the whole season with bamford would have been stupid. how many times did remy/DD start and we looked like we had no bite.

clutching at straws.. our manager thinks almost the same thing. well, i guess i am clutching at straws...

[didierforever 7,349]

Come of it. Do you really think Falcao would have had the same impact at us last season like Remy did in his limited appearances or vice-versa, Remy would have scored much more goals for United last season if he was playing. I would take Remy over Falcao 100%. He might of not been the level of Falcao of Atletico, but now that is just an absurd statement. Remy is a quality striker. You have seemed to downplay Remy's qualities because a 37 year old striker was played ahead of him. So does that mean KDB is worse than Oscar who you are not a big fan of because Mourinho chose him over KDB??

how was kdb for us? downright shit!!! i ll judge him by that and not by some midlevel bundesliga team.

oscar is getting another year (apparently), lets see where that ends up. but i can definitely see why jose did what he did with falcao. if costa is injured, i wont want remy to lead our line in a CL semi final against bayern/rm/barca. one poor season of falcao does not equate him to becoming a torres. people need to come of the torres generalization.

[Stats 7,136]

costa had an awesome minutes/goal ratio until he lost his purple patch and then had a lean patch. its easier to score 7 goals in 700 minutes than 20 goals in 2000 minutes.

again, remy was very good, and should be with us next season, but just having costa and remy for the whole season with bamford would have been stupid. how many times did remy/DD start and we looked like we had no bite.

clutching at straws.. our manager thinks almost the same thing. well, i guess i am clutching at straws...

Maybe it is the fact that Mourinho wants Remy to stay however Remy has told him he wants to play regular football and in that case that is why Falcao may have been brought in?