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Mourinho thinks he can bring the best out of Falcao
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Why do people keep suggesting that it has something to do with Mendes? Do you know how silly and ridiculous that sounds? 
You really think that a manager who's so desperate and under so much pressure to compete for the biggest honors is going to jeopardize his chances of doing so by doing his agent a favor? Come on, guys.
The only reason José would sign him is if he believed he can still offer something.
You really think that a manager who's so desperate and under so much pressure to compete for the biggest honors is going to jeopardize his chances of doing so by doing his agent a favor? Come on, guys.
The only reason José would sign him is if he believed he can still offer something.
Why do people keep suggesting that it has something to do with Mendes? Do you know how silly and ridiculous that sounds?
You really think that a manager who's so desperate and under so much pressure to compete for the biggest honors is going to jeopardize his chances of doing so by doing his agent a favor? Come on, guys.
The only reason José would sign him is if he believed he can still offer something.
He can't have watched him this season then. Would make more sense to give Remy more chances or perhaps (heaven forbid) an acedemy player.
That doesn't matter for a real man(ager)
Why do people keep suggesting that it has something to do with Mendes? Do you know how silly and ridiculous that sounds?
You really think that a manager who's so desperate and under so much pressure to compete for the biggest honors is going to jeopardize his chances of doing so by doing his agent a favor? Come on, guys.
The only reason José would sign him is if he believed he can still offer something.
That's like saying it's silly to suggest a team as big as Man Utd didn't sign Bebe to do Mendes a favour. It happens, Mourinho spent €30m on Coentrão when he had one of the best left backs in the world...
Why do people keep suggesting that it has something to do with Mendes? Do you know how silly and ridiculous that sounds?
You really think that a manager who's so desperate and under so much pressure to compete for the biggest honors is going to jeopardize his chances of doing so by doing his agent a favor? Come on, guys.
The only reason José would sign him is if he believed he can still offer something.
Something, yes. But his stock is so low that getting the same amount of gametime as Remy will be a blessing for him
Really hope Chelsea sign him.
Even if he scores 40 goals next season there shouldn't be a single person here who regrets not signing him. His performances were awful and he was given chance after chance to prove himself and didn't. Remember, he had to sell himself to us and it was up to him to give us his best. Had he shown enough and scored maybe 15 goals, I dare say we would have signed him.
I have said it before and I'l say it again, he'd be a good buy for Chelsea. I'd rather they didnt get him.
Surely you'd rather they bought Falcao than someone who isn't finished?
There's not a chance he recaptures his peak form. At best he'll be a decent striker, but not as good as what Chelsea have...plus he (like Drogba) will block the path of a youngster.
Falcao will be a great player for them.
For us he was the right player at the wrong time, short of confidence and recovering from a major injury at a time when the team itself didn't know what exactly it was supposed to be, bought for name and not purpose.
If Jose Mourinho saw his season with us and thinks he can get the best out of him, I'm inclined to believe he will.
For us he was the right player at the wrong time, short of confidence and recovering from a major injury at a time when the team itself didn't know what exactly it was supposed to be, bought for name and not purpose.
If Jose Mourinho saw his season with us and thinks he can get the best out of him, I'm inclined to believe he will.
That's the thing though, I dont think Falcao is finished. He'l be 2nd choice there behind Costa which means the pressure and the scrutiny will be much less and without that, he'l get the time to settle. Mourinho will be a good manager too. Chelsea also create a lot of chances unlike us which will be help Falcao. The problem he had here wasnt of him missing too many chances. We didnt create many clear cut ones and he was unable to create and finish on his own unlike the past where he used to do it frequently.
I dont think he'l recapture his peak form either but even if he goes to 75% of that, he'l be among the best strikers in the world. They arent a club that develop youngsters anyways so that isnt an issue. He'd be a very good No 2 and given time, be more than that.
He will play good and we will be crying
There's absolutely no reason on earth to think this is true and yet I know in my heart that this is exactly what will happen. I just don't know why.
And why the feck would we cry or regret letting him go? There's absolutely no assurance that he'd look remotely decent for us the next season after this year's circus, he could've as well stayed with us and looked as dogshit as he did this year. If Jose indeed buys him and manages to get him going again then credit to him but it doesn't automatically mean that we've fecked something up.
Not as silly and ridiculous as completely brushing the notion aside. It happens. Bob Loblaw has given two examples.Why do people keep suggesting that it has something to do with Mendes? Do you know how silly and ridiculous that sounds?
You really think that a manager who's so desperate and under so much pressure to compete for the biggest honors is going to jeopardize his chances of doing so by doing his agent a favor? Come on, guys.
The only reason José would sign him is if he believed he can still offer something.
This. Even if he plays well for them, doesn't mean he would've been a success with us.
I don't really understand him going there as back up to Costa. Isn't this the same guy who had his family, agent, national coach moaning in public all season that it was our fault he wasn't playing well as he wasn't playing all the time?
Knowing our luck the past few years, we will have another Pogba situation, where every jurno, fan and football expert will ram it down our throats that we never give him enough games, if he turns out brilliantly. captain hindsight will not let us hear the end of it, just like Paul Pogba
Remember when Captain Heindsight comes to the rescue, with shoulda, coulda and woulda we are all in trouble
I have a bad feeling that he would be good for them.
Nah. He'll struggle again. Legs are gone. Why would that suddenly change?
Delighted for him.
It's probably some big ego trip for Mourinho. If he can get Falcao to perform when van Gaal couldn't then the media will probably fawn over him even more.
No chance he can do well there surely? This wasn't a case of bad luck or lack of confidence (although he did lack confidence) the talent has clearly just disappeared. That injury fecked him.
Wow reading this threat there is some serious fanboyism. It's quite strange how people will deny blind facts and what they see with their eyes.
Nobody who watched falcao all year last year will think he will ever be the same again. His knee injury has clearly effected him so badly that he will never recover the movement he once had.
His movement in the box was pretty poor too, I could forgive his lack of pace of poor first touch, but he never got across defenders in the box or earnt himself a goal.
I am really glad we didn't sign him, if Chelsea want too that's fine but it's no more than a PR exercise.
I wish him all the best we he was always respectful with us, but he is nowhere near the best in the world anymore.
Nobody who watched falcao all year last year will think he will ever be the same again. His knee injury has clearly effected him so badly that he will never recover the movement he once had.
His movement in the box was pretty poor too, I could forgive his lack of pace of poor first touch, but he never got across defenders in the box or earnt himself a goal.
I am really glad we didn't sign him, if Chelsea want too that's fine but it's no more than a PR exercise.
I wish him all the best we he was always respectful with us, but he is nowhere near the best in the world anymore.
A loft of people on this forum seem to think that Falcao will be great at Chelsea.
Can someone give logical reasoning for this?
I'm not talking about what he did 4 years ago. I want you to base your arguments on logic and form, based on the last 12 months (or even 24 months).
I believe he will take the place of Torres as a non-scoring striker....just as he was for Man Utd.
I say this because top strikers usually decline very quickly, usually within 2 years of their peak - which is where Falcao is at right now.
He has very little experience of the CL, so was never able to make impact against top sides from other leagues.
His last good season was in 2012-13 season, which is 2 years ago.
In the EPL, we saw this year, how physically weak he is - struggling in the reserves to fend of teenagers.
We also know his balance is not good - he struggles to stay on his feet (see video below).
I came across this article which summed up my feelings perfectly....just in case some of you have forgotten how awful he was (in the EPL).
Can someone give logical reasoning for this?
I'm not talking about what he did 4 years ago. I want you to base your arguments on logic and form, based on the last 12 months (or even 24 months).
I believe he will take the place of Torres as a non-scoring striker....just as he was for Man Utd.
I say this because top strikers usually decline very quickly, usually within 2 years of their peak - which is where Falcao is at right now.
He has very little experience of the CL, so was never able to make impact against top sides from other leagues.
His last good season was in 2012-13 season, which is 2 years ago.
In the EPL, we saw this year, how physically weak he is - struggling in the reserves to fend of teenagers.
We also know his balance is not good - he struggles to stay on his feet (see video below).
I came across this article which summed up my feelings perfectly....just in case some of you have forgotten how awful he was (in the EPL).
Na, he looked way off pace everytime in the past few months. He might do well moderately but i find it hard to believe he will get back to his best again. Still, much rather he went somewhere out of Pl as I would like to see him do well.
Don't think any Chelsea fan with a bit of sense about them expects him to get back to his best. Like I've been saying, we have a world class #9 already. We don't need Falcao to be a 25 goal scorer.
If he nets 10 goals in the PL and a few more in the others comps then it'll be a successful season.
If he nets 10 goals in the PL and a few more in the others comps then it'll be a successful season.
It's all about reputation. If he was at a financially stable club on his last big contract then he'd likely keep quiet but as it is he's got to keep his reputation up so he has clubs that can pay his wages interested.
He's probably got 4 years of potential contract time left where, with smart handling by his agent, he can earn good money. He's going to want to do all he can to maximise his earnings in that period and having everyone he knows talk about how good he still is and how the club situation isn't helping will go someway to helping.
If he manages to not fall on his backside it would be a successful season.
Why would people discount his entire career bar one season when trying to appraise a 29 year old? that's what people did with young and fellaini last season and look pretty stupid now
Why would you pay a player 300,000 a week to do that though? You can get players to do that for better value
Absolutely no way we're paying him remotely close to what you guys paid him.
It would be one up on his old Mentor LVG if he were the 'special' one to resurrect Falcao......or some shit like that
why would he agree to that
Why would he take less than what he's on at Monaco?
It's only a loan after all. If there were any chance of him accepting less United would have followed it through last year.
Because he's desperate to stay at top team and prove he still has it I would guess. This is the main reason we're signing him. He's willing to take a massive pay cut to stay in the PL.
Our highest earning player is Hazard on a reported 200k a week. No chance we'd pay a near 30 year old Falcao the 260-300k United did to be Costa's backup.
he doesn't pay tax in monaco. Do you really think he'll go from 300k no tax to 60k or something after tax? Why would he do that just to be a back up striker? At a team that plays ultra negative football? I'd say he'll be matching the highest earners if he moves. He's no stupid he knows he won't play at chelsea, and that him getting 10 goals won't prove anything to anyone
Our "ultra negative" football scored us significantly more goals than you guys did and second most in the league.
From most of the reliable outlets it's being reported that one of the main reasons he's even being considered is because he's willing to cut his wages down significantly. He'll probably still be one of our highest earning players but we aren't completely shattering our wage structure for him. We don't pay silly wages like you guys do.
If he were still demanding 300k we'd simply look elsewhere.
You can pay him what you like but I never saw anything from him last season to suggest he's good enough , for even the second striker at Chelsea .
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