RVP has a year left on his deal I believe, so if we did ignore Falcao, RVP could have a year on the bench and then he will be gone too. I think sticking with Rooney, Wilson and getting 1 more striker (Dybala/Lacazette etc) would be ideal. Playing a 4-3-3 with pacey wingers would be my preferred formation.
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We have to many supposed « big » players in the same post in our team. This team was supposed to be unbalanced with too many numbers 10s or striker, but it’s exactly the same, or worse now with our recruitment. We haven’t been clever by adding Falcao to our team.
We could have done our season with RVP and Rooney upfront and keeping Chicha, here you have 3 different types of strikers.
Falcao has the same runs as RVP, they can’t combine and can’t play together.
He’s been awful yesterday, but like RVP to be honest. Their partnership are nullifying them, first they’re not in great form, but they’re not playing well.
We can complain the lack of services, the bad runs, crosses etc, but they had once chances yesterday and failed.
I’m totally against paying him and having him in our squad this summer. It’s either him or RVP for me. And I would prefer keeping RVP because we have not to pay 35-45M for him this summer.
LVG tactics is not good enough to make him shine, but Falcao is not good enough for us. He should (like RVP), bring us forward, being our talisman (like Costa, Sanchez, Aguero or Sturrigde for their team), but he’s more a problem.
Bench him and RVP now and play Wazza as a number 9.
LVG said hat Roo won’t play midfielder forever, “depending on the strikers form”… They’ve been awful this season, and it’s time to be better
We could have done our season with RVP and Rooney upfront and keeping Chicha, here you have 3 different types of strikers.
Falcao has the same runs as RVP, they can’t combine and can’t play together.
He’s been awful yesterday, but like RVP to be honest. Their partnership are nullifying them, first they’re not in great form, but they’re not playing well.
We can complain the lack of services, the bad runs, crosses etc, but they had once chances yesterday and failed.
I’m totally against paying him and having him in our squad this summer. It’s either him or RVP for me. And I would prefer keeping RVP because we have not to pay 35-45M for him this summer.
LVG tactics is not good enough to make him shine, but Falcao is not good enough for us. He should (like RVP), bring us forward, being our talisman (like Costa, Sanchez, Aguero or Sturrigde for their team), but he’s more a problem.
Bench him and RVP now and play Wazza as a number 9.
LVG said hat Roo won’t play midfielder forever, “depending on the strikers form”… They’ve been awful this season, and it’s time to be better
I agree that RvP's chance was really good as well (I don't know about better) and you'd expect better from him, but Falcao's was a clear one on one, and it's pretty terrible he didn't even get it on target. In that position, you have to at the very least test the keeper. Overall, I think he's been better than RvP though, who is having a horrible season and should be dropped.
RvP's chances was much easier. On his stronger foot and a perfect height to get a shot off. Falcao's was on his wrong foot and at an akward height. You'd still expect someone with his reputation to convert it with ease though. Just couldn't sort his feet out at all, which has been a theme with his missed chances this season.
Yeah I thought it was weird how he decided to try to hit it with the outside of his right foot given the height, I think poking it with the left would have at least got it on target. But obviously, it happens in a split second and it's more down to muscle memory so who knows. And as you say, VP's chance was almost on a platter, a couple of years ago he'd have smashed that into the roofing of the net.
Regarding the business with him, Mendes and De Gea, I don't believe for a second that we are being forced to sign him in order to get De Gea to sign a new contract. I do think it's possible that we are playing Falcao to keep him sweet.
If we did decide Falcao wasn't good enough and benched him and restricted his minutes for the rest of the season it would really hurt his chances of getting one last big contract somewhere. It's some interesting politics that's fo sho.
If we did decide Falcao wasn't good enough and benched him and restricted his minutes for the rest of the season it would really hurt his chances of getting one last big contract somewhere. It's some interesting politics that's fo sho.
Wouldnt sign him to clean the boots at the moment.
Service to our front two is woeful and tbh RVP doesn't look much better but for the money they're talking I'd need to see a lot more to he convinced he's worth i .
Service to our front two is woeful and tbh RVP doesn't look much better but for the money they're talking I'd need to see a lot more to he convinced he's worth i .
I was assuming you were talking about taking him back on a loan move next season.
Sorry for the misinterpretation. I was excited for this move but it has proven a failure. I wouldn't bring him back at all next season but fair enough the punt for this season was a gamble which could have gone well.
Gutted Falcao missed his big chance yesterday. He had a decent game, and everyone would've been raving about him if he'd stuck that away. Those are the margins, and as a striker, sometime you try too hard 
Gutted Falcao missed his big chance yesterday. He had a decent game, and everyone would've been raving about him if he'd stuck that away. Those are the margins, and as a striker, sometime you try too hard
He was getting a lot of stick before that chance to be fair... to be honest, for me, the chance was the only semi-decent thing he did yesterday (as it was the only time he showed any form of decent movement)... away from that, he was god-awful.
I think the problem was he missed the target completely. If he hit it at the keeper and he saved it, you would have to give props to the keeper and say he was unlucky. But to completely miss the target from 5-10 yards is just beyond stupid given your an elite footballer.
Falcao is as good on his left as he is on his right when it comes to striking the ball. Scored some ridiculous shots with his left before.
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He just isn't the player he was of a couple of seasons ago. I can't recall a moment this season where Falcao has done something that has made you think "this guy is quality".
So far we'd have been better off with Hernandez let's be straight. And yesterday I'd rather have seen Wilson get a game, he at least will try make something happe .
His movement within the box is exceptional - but we are rarley in and around the oppositions box.
His hold up play/ first time lay off is also very good.
I said it before either in this thread or a different one.......if Radamel Falcao, Ander Herrera and Angel Di Maria played for Liverpool, all 3 would be performing at level much higher than they are for us. We are soooooooo slow, clumbersome and unadventerous in possession.
Losing hope on this as it progresses, every game that goes by its just not working remotely.
Dont know if its him, or him and RVP or Utd. But he had a chance and didnt take it and seemed to take an extra step that wasnt necessary. Eventually set up RVP for one chance, but was actually turning inside and got tackled, which was the wrong choice, before laying it off.
I want him to do well. Its just really not happening at the moment.
Dont know if its him, or him and RVP or Utd. But he had a chance and didnt take it and seemed to take an extra step that wasnt necessary. Eventually set up RVP for one chance, but was actually turning inside and got tackled, which was the wrong choice, before laying it off.
I want him to do well. Its just really not happening at the moment.
At this point in time, given the choice between A) Having him signed up, so Mendes has De Gea sign an extension for us or B) not signing this guy up and having to find a new keeper or have Valdes as our number 1, I'd choose option B.
At least with B, we can blood Wilson in instead of wasting our time seeing Falcao struggling.
At least with B, we can blood Wilson in instead of wasting our time seeing Falcao struggling.
From what I've seen, Falcao has been slow, cumbersome and unadventurous in possession himself. He isn't the cause of that problem in your team but he definitely hasn't helped it.
I wouldn't take him at Liverpool for the amount he'd cost. Our non-Sturridge options are shit but he couldn't fit into our style either.
It depends really, I think with Sterling, Coutinho and Lallana providing speed and creation, and him playing as CF in your team, he'd do pretty well. He'd be getting a ton more chances than he is in our set up and would probably be finding his goalscoring boots again. It's a matter of opinion and it's a bit silly as it's fiction football really, but I'm pretty convinced he'd do better elsewhere. Probably not as well as his top form at Atletico, but nowhere near what he's producing at the moment.
Falcao will never replicate his previous form in this United line up, it's legitimately impossible. Either sell him or move on the likes of RVP/Rooney. You can't have them all.
I think Falcao's confidence is just really low and at the moment we're not a club that can give him time to get his game back. We need people who can pick up the rest of the team, not the reverse.
He doesn't look like he's lost any pace. Just the opposite, he does a lot more headless chicken running than he ever did at Atletico. But the sharpness & decision making has just gone. I suspect he could get them back, but Im not hopeful itll be at United. And for £45M? Even Eddy Woodward would have trouble justifying that kinda cash.
He doesn't look like he's lost any pace. Just the opposite, he does a lot more headless chicken running than he ever did at Atletico. But the sharpness & decision making has just gone. I suspect he could get them back, but Im not hopeful itll be at United. And for £45M? Even Eddy Woodward would have trouble justifying that kinda cash.
Sign him up! He's a world class forward. Don't be fooled by bad form and poor team tactics. Ronaldo would look shit upfront in this United team
I've seen Falcao play in person a few times long before he came here. . . He really was a beast and he just looked like someone who was going to batter defences and there was nothing that you could do about it.
Forget about his form and his playing for a moment, the guy just looks lost.
Forget about his form and his playing for a moment, the guy just looks lost.
Has he actually managed to get one cleanly hit shot in yet this season? He has an incredible knack of shanking every single shot he takes.
Close range, miss hits it, long range, miss hits it, free kicks, straight into the wall.
Close range, miss hits it, long range, miss hits it, free kicks, straight into the wall.
He is struggling but at least he appears to be trying unlike a certain someone else who looks more disinterested than a dog at a vegan buffet.
His talent is unquestionable but i think he is lacking confidence, the problem is highlighted by Van Persie misfiring as well, James Wilson being young, enthusiastic but raw and Wayne Rooney being played in midfield. With Di Maria also being way out of form as well we are properly struggling for goals.
Too many excuses, many of you can't be trusted to run a business when you need to be ruthless and make a decision. On the evidence of this season, we'll be stupid to offer him a permanent contract here.
Keep seeing this sentiment of "No-one could do much better than Falcao with our service", "Ronaldo would look shit in this team" etc...
It's amazing how strikers like Ings at Burnley, Austin at QPR and Berahino at West Brom have so completely out-shined Falcao.
Jonathan Walters at Stoke has been more of a goal threat than him.
Goals don't just rely on service, they rely on movement, and Falcao is bordering on immobile by PL standards.
Further still, goals rely on chances taken, and even in that department Falcao isn't taking his chances.
We're paying this guy elite player wages, and while I don't feel resentment toward him, I certainly think that the borderline sympathy needs to stop. He isn't good enough, and the club should show it's ruthlessness imo. Don't reward an overpaid burden of a player with game-time.
His movement is superb. Its the service that is sorely lacking. Rooney only wants to make cross field balls to Valencia who proceeds to cross into his marker. Do you think those strikers you mentioned would shine in this United setup? Honestly now. Even Wilson would've probably scored more goals with his limited appearances at Spurs
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The forward partnership at United has been very poor for a few seasons now. You could count the number of passes Rooney & RVP have completed on one hand.
That trend has continued with RVP & Falcao
The midfield is taking a large part of the blame but all I would say is IF Falcao had taken a few of his chances then the dynamic of the match changes.
Trying to break a team down is always difficult, doing it with two slow forwards is making it harder...BUT it would be far easier to create chances at 1-0 than it has been at 0-0 or 1 nil down.
That trend has continued with RVP & Falcao
The midfield is taking a large part of the blame but all I would say is IF Falcao had taken a few of his chances then the dynamic of the match changes.
Trying to break a team down is always difficult, doing it with two slow forwards is making it harder...BUT it would be far easier to create chances at 1-0 than it has been at 0-0 or 1 nil down.
I have to agree the service the forwards are getting is absolutely shocking. If your constantly moving to into space and no ones got the quality to pick you out, naturally you think it's easier to hit a still one than a moving target or to drop deep to get the easier ball. Trust me if Falcao was wearing a chelsea shirt, he'd be on double figures already. There are no issues with Cesc, William et al finding Costa. Even Ronaldo would fail in this setup. Di Maria is looking like Young pre LVG
You're absolutely right. I see Costa struggling at United. It will only take Falcao moving on to a proper team that can provide service to show his doubters how wrong they are. I specifically remember LVG instructing Falcao to drop deep in an FA cup game and I remember RVP getting only 13 touches one game. Shocking how poor we are in this respect. No wonder no one has hit double figures and no wonder we haven't won a single fvcking penalty this season
Its incredibly hard to provide service to a striker when you know you can't play any kind of through ball too, or can't slightly over hit a pass too. Everything has to be on a plate for Falcao, because he simply doesn't have any acceleration left in him.
Would like to hear from match-going fans on this one. Buddy of mine saw the Spurs game in London and said Falcao was making runs and getting frustrated by the lack of service. I didn't see this watching on TV.
Is this something you see as well? Is Falcao making runs and dropping deeper because he's not getting the ball in dangerous areas?
I don't see the correlation between not having service and being unable to control a football.
And he's missed a lot of the chances he has had, let's not forget. The latest being yesterdays.
He could easily turn it around, but at the moment there's blatantly a lot of special pleading being made on his behalf, just because he's 'Falcao'.
People overstate his pace and acceleration before his injury. He's never been a speed merchant. RVP has never been a pacy player, RVN was never a pacy player either. Falcao is no slouch though, and he still gets into good positions
Exactly. Lots of people saying that Falcao and Van Persie aren't the problem, the service is, but both have missed a lot of good chances this season too. The service obviously isn't as good as it should be but they deserve at least half of the blame too.
This. Nothing excuses the huge number of sitters he and RVP missed in all the games they played in.
Forgot this... Yeah he's fecked. Unless he gets 26 goals in 14 games plus a few fa cup games....
Will 4 do?
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