Probably second in line behind Rooney. Wouldn't want to anger or confuse Wayne.
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It made very little sense as a signing but I'm still ridiculously excited about this. Stylistically, he reminds me quite a bit of Batistuta. As a pure, natural centre forward, he's the best fit since Ruud Van Nistelrooy imo. As great as Rooney and RVP have been, their games are a bit different. I wonder if there's any chance of RVP reprising his earlier Arsenal role and playing as a second striker alongside Falcao? He's been brilliant for us, even last season I thought, but the nature of his position as an outright No. 9 means he hasn't really utilised his creativity and excellent short range passing for us.
He seems happy in the interview. Just wait till he see the crossing machines Valencia and Young 'supplying' him with crosses in training.
A section of Monaco's support are demanding refunds on their season tickets due to the sales of Falcao and James. 
Wait till he starts linking up with Mata, Di Maria, Herrera, Rooney, RVP & Januzaj
RVP was quoted today saying that the talk of an operation on him is "nonsense" and has been made up by somebody. So, Falcao wasn't bought because of RVP.
LVG's sure going to have a tough selection job when all 3 of Rooney, RVP and Falcao are fully fit.
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/09/van-persie-blasts-fantasy-knee-surgery-claims/
do we have buy option next year, or something?
Lot of conflicting reports. All we really know is that it's a season long loan, as confirmed by the club.
I know you're joking, but with any luck Rafa and Shaw will be fit after the international break and we won't have to suffer those two shit all over any hope of a good team performance.
Interesting.
Right now, I'd drop RVP for Falcao. Rooney is the captain after all, even if he hasn't been any better..
You know what, he looks like the type of guy that will do it on a cold night in Stoke too.
The club confirmed that it's a season long loan "with an option to buy" in the twitter announcement.
Nahh, too slow..
Ah so you're right, missed that part. Well then, I fully expect us to conclude the deal next summer.
Hoping he's still the same before he did his ACL. If he's still in good touch, he could be good to go for another 3-4 years. He doesn't really need to rely on pace to get his goals so losing pace shouldn't be an issue
We really needed this signing now when you think of it, because you can just tell Rooney's going to have one of those seasons where he's dazed and confused most of the time and RVP obviously is not fit. If Falcao can come in and score 20 goals it will release the pressure valve on those 2.
We really needed this signing now when you think of it, because you can just tell Rooney's going to have one of those seasons where he's dazed and confused most of the time and RVP obviously is not fit. If Falcao can come in and score 20 goals it will release the pressure valve on those 2.
I hope Mata survives. He's only really had half a season with us and already 2 different managers.This signing kind of makes you forget we have signed Angel Di Maria and Daley Blind
Kind of confused and somewhat concerned (In a good way I guess) about who plays. Will Mata survive? Who plays in midfield? Do we drop the 352?
I hate the international break, roll on QPR
Nah, the wind will hold the ball up nicely for him.
Ok this is a old topic but I ask it again anyway. I'm always curious why he never choose a champion league qualified club.
Moved from Porto to A Madrid ( rejected Chelsea) to Monaco ( rejected both Chelsea and RM, maybe atl Madrid didn't want to sell to their rival) to United ( He had Hala Madrid -ed just before he moved here). Seriously but he's just that unlucky and wasn't up to him to choose because of 3rd party ownership thing or what...
Moved from Porto to A Madrid ( rejected Chelsea) to Monaco ( rejected both Chelsea and RM, maybe atl Madrid didn't want to sell to their rival) to United ( He had Hala Madrid -ed just before he moved here). Seriously but he's just that unlucky and wasn't up to him to choose because of 3rd party ownership thing or what...
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Madrid didn't want him. That is the truth. They wanted a player like Hernandez who wouldn't expect to take over from Benzema. Falcao didn't want to play second fiddle and rightly so. Madrid and Mendes couldn't come to an agreement on terms basically.
of course he is happy, he never really wanted the move to Monaco. It was always just for a year and then looking to get his move to a big club.
My guess is:
Porto to A.Madrid = €50 million transfer (40 with 10 bonuses) Porto could not turn that down and Falcao was going to La Liga, which is a win.
A.Madrid to Monaco = I think his agent played the biggest part in this with money being an obvious lure.
Monaco to United = Realized money isn't everything and needed a way out of that nightmare of a club. No one could afford him at €55 million + his huge wages during these FFP times, bar Madrid who didn't want him, Barcelona who doesn't need him and Bayern who doesn't need him.
‘We knew he was something special:’ Radamel Falcao's journey from teenage debutant to Manchester United's star signing
He could have played baseball, but the Colombian is now one of the world's most sought after strikers
Carl Worswick
Bogota
Tuesday 02 September 2014
In the Colombian city of Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast, a statue towers by the entrance of the Eduardo Santos stadium. Wild coils of yellow hair, arms flailing and eyes fixed on the ball, the 22-foot bronze work portrays one of the country’s most recognizable faces: that of Carlos “El Pibe” Valderrama, the languid genius and heartbeat of Colombia’s golden team of the 1990s.
Considered the greatest player to have worn his country’s yellow jersey, Valderrama brought joy to a nation struggling through the violent years of Colombia’s drug wars. For many Colombians, nobody will ever touch “El Pibe’s” iconic status. But in recent years a new star has started to shine. He is also from Santa Marta.
Born in 1986, Radamel Falcao Garcia Zarate was rooted in football. He was named after the Brazilian who shone as part of the 1982 Selecao, and his father – also called Radamel – was a professional who had played centre-back for Colombian side Santa Fe. By the time Radamel was born, however, his father’s career was on the wane. With Radamel aged just four, the family set up a new life over the Venezuelan border.
For the next five years the young Radamel was whisked around as his dad chased the dying days of his career in a country not known for its football. It was baseball that ruled and so it was inevitable that the youngster would turn to bat and ball. After a painful incident involving a bloody nose playing football, Falcao took up baseball and showed promise. “He was very good,” his father recalls. “His baseball coach once begged me to let him continue playing because he was so quick in getting to the bases.”
But Falcao’s dalliance with baseball soon ended when, in 1995, his family returned to Colombia. Back in Bogota he joined a local side where he would train after school. His eye for goal caught the attention of a friend of his father.
Argentine Silvano Espindola was a devout Christian and had played with Falcao Snr at Colombian side Union Magdalena. Now a businessman and spiritual guide, he channelled his post-playing career energies into a football school with a religious bent; players weren’t just picked for their abilities but for their personal qualities too. It would be the turning point in the youngster’s life.
“That was my dad’s main goal when I was a kid: to turn me into a good man,” Falcao later told Colombian journalist Mauricio Silva. “Everyone who was involved in that school saw their lives totally transformed.”
Radamel Falcao (top right) playing for one of the Bogota youth sides aged 11
It was Espindola who convinced the youngster to turn his back on Bogota’s biggest clubs, Santa Fe and Millonarios, to join his Fair Play academy. At just 13 years old, his big moment had arrived and he joined the squad who were in the Colombian Second Division.
By August 1999 he believed the fledgling star was ready to play. “Silvano and I made the decision a few days before our league game with Pereira,” then Lanceros manager Hernan Pacheco tells me after a football practice with young kids in Bogota. “We’d both seen how good he was, and his ability of doing something completely different stood out.”
On 28 August 1999, with just 20 minutes left in the team’s match, Falcao made history as the youngest player to play in Colombian football. “He was a bit shy and the other players really didn’t like what I did. Imagine having to come off for a 13-year-old child? Both my guys and the opposition told me to stop messing around and treat football professionally,” Pacheco recalls.
Despite the initial hostilities, his team-mates were soon won over. “They were all impressed after that game. We knew he was something special.”
Falcao would go on to become the youngest player to score in the Colombian League before Espindola orchestrated a move to River Plate a year later. It was here that his precocious talent was honed and toughened. “When he went to Argentina he stuck it out despite being left alone a lot of the time. Most Colombians there came home missing their mums but not him,” his father later said.
The teenager worked his way through the youth ranks, and later took a journalism degree at the University of Palermo. He made his debut four years after signing for River, having acquired a nickname due to his style of play. “You played like a tiger today,” team-mate Gonzalo Luduena told him in the changing rooms after an Under-15s game.
In 2005 his career took off with seven goals in as many games, but a cruciate injury ruled him out for a year. Not for the last time Falcao would turn to God and his faith to help him through.
By 2007 he was back to his best and he made his international debut shortly before hard-up River sold him to Porto for $5m (£3m). Over the next three seasons he scored 72 goals in 87 games, then won the 2011 Europa League and was on his way to becoming one of Europe’s best strikers. Now at a major club, the only worry will be to keep him fit. But if Louis van Gaal succeeds, then one day Santa Marta may boast two statues celebrating Colombia’s famous footballing sons.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-manchester-uniteds-star-signing-9707499.html
He could have played baseball, but the Colombian is now one of the world's most sought after strikers
Carl Worswick
Bogota
Tuesday 02 September 2014
In the Colombian city of Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast, a statue towers by the entrance of the Eduardo Santos stadium. Wild coils of yellow hair, arms flailing and eyes fixed on the ball, the 22-foot bronze work portrays one of the country’s most recognizable faces: that of Carlos “El Pibe” Valderrama, the languid genius and heartbeat of Colombia’s golden team of the 1990s.
Considered the greatest player to have worn his country’s yellow jersey, Valderrama brought joy to a nation struggling through the violent years of Colombia’s drug wars. For many Colombians, nobody will ever touch “El Pibe’s” iconic status. But in recent years a new star has started to shine. He is also from Santa Marta.
Born in 1986, Radamel Falcao Garcia Zarate was rooted in football. He was named after the Brazilian who shone as part of the 1982 Selecao, and his father – also called Radamel – was a professional who had played centre-back for Colombian side Santa Fe. By the time Radamel was born, however, his father’s career was on the wane. With Radamel aged just four, the family set up a new life over the Venezuelan border.
For the next five years the young Radamel was whisked around as his dad chased the dying days of his career in a country not known for its football. It was baseball that ruled and so it was inevitable that the youngster would turn to bat and ball. After a painful incident involving a bloody nose playing football, Falcao took up baseball and showed promise. “He was very good,” his father recalls. “His baseball coach once begged me to let him continue playing because he was so quick in getting to the bases.”
But Falcao’s dalliance with baseball soon ended when, in 1995, his family returned to Colombia. Back in Bogota he joined a local side where he would train after school. His eye for goal caught the attention of a friend of his father.
Argentine Silvano Espindola was a devout Christian and had played with Falcao Snr at Colombian side Union Magdalena. Now a businessman and spiritual guide, he channelled his post-playing career energies into a football school with a religious bent; players weren’t just picked for their abilities but for their personal qualities too. It would be the turning point in the youngster’s life.
“That was my dad’s main goal when I was a kid: to turn me into a good man,” Falcao later told Colombian journalist Mauricio Silva. “Everyone who was involved in that school saw their lives totally transformed.”
It was Espindola who convinced the youngster to turn his back on Bogota’s biggest clubs, Santa Fe and Millonarios, to join his Fair Play academy. At just 13 years old, his big moment had arrived and he joined the squad who were in the Colombian Second Division.
By August 1999 he believed the fledgling star was ready to play. “Silvano and I made the decision a few days before our league game with Pereira,” then Lanceros manager Hernan Pacheco tells me after a football practice with young kids in Bogota. “We’d both seen how good he was, and his ability of doing something completely different stood out.”
On 28 August 1999, with just 20 minutes left in the team’s match, Falcao made history as the youngest player to play in Colombian football. “He was a bit shy and the other players really didn’t like what I did. Imagine having to come off for a 13-year-old child? Both my guys and the opposition told me to stop messing around and treat football professionally,” Pacheco recalls.
Despite the initial hostilities, his team-mates were soon won over. “They were all impressed after that game. We knew he was something special.”
Falcao would go on to become the youngest player to score in the Colombian League before Espindola orchestrated a move to River Plate a year later. It was here that his precocious talent was honed and toughened. “When he went to Argentina he stuck it out despite being left alone a lot of the time. Most Colombians there came home missing their mums but not him,” his father later said.
The teenager worked his way through the youth ranks, and later took a journalism degree at the University of Palermo. He made his debut four years after signing for River, having acquired a nickname due to his style of play. “You played like a tiger today,” team-mate Gonzalo Luduena told him in the changing rooms after an Under-15s game.
In 2005 his career took off with seven goals in as many games, but a cruciate injury ruled him out for a year. Not for the last time Falcao would turn to God and his faith to help him through.
By 2007 he was back to his best and he made his international debut shortly before hard-up River sold him to Porto for $5m (£3m). Over the next three seasons he scored 72 goals in 87 games, then won the 2011 Europa League and was on his way to becoming one of Europe’s best strikers. Now at a major club, the only worry will be to keep him fit. But if Louis van Gaal succeeds, then one day Santa Marta may boast two statues celebrating Colombia’s famous footballing sons.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-manchester-uniteds-star-signing-9707499.html
never knew that he had a cruciate injury before. Good article too
I can't believe it.
Alongside Lewandowski, he is the best striker in the world. And now he's a Manchester United player.
Incredible.
Absolutely mental.
Alongside Lewandowski, he is the best striker in the world. And now he's a Manchester United player.
Incredible.
Absolutely mental.
And you know it because? Widely reported many times that Real Madrid were interest and he went as far as tweeting Real Madrid is dream come true or whatever but the deal fell through because of his wage it seem. As crazy as Perez is, he knows Real Madrid can't afford him and Benzema so they went for Chicharito.
Yup, I'd agree. Think Alexis' runs come best from out wide though, with the centre backs occupied with the initial threat of the striker.
Wow and to think they normally struggle to fill in half of their 18000 capacity stadium....A section of Monaco's support are demanding refunds on their season tickets due to the sales of Falcao and James.
I read it in The Sun.
Must be legit. I can't argue with that
Yeah, that and Benzema might have signalled he'd put in a transfer request if they got Falcao..leaving them in the same place they were.
Obviously Madrid wanted him, he wouldnt tweet what he tweeted if the deal wasnt close. So something changed or complicated the transfer. I dont care, he will give 100% for us and that is what counts.
Probably a slightly worsened place than before. Despite being a tier below the top, top strikers, Benzema is a player who will show for the ball and is more than willing to move out onto the wings, which benefits the goalscoring wingers in Ronaldo and Bale. Particularly the former, he is given a bit of a free pass on his wide duties due to this. Having a more static (isn't really the right word to describe Falcao) rather, a less willing player to not use his movement for his own benefit in the opposing box, would be detrimental for an already fairly imbalanced Madrid side.
Yeah exactly. Not worth the risk
.Cannot understand why people would be concerned by his age? Is 28 actually considered old?
28 is a prime age and has a good few years left.
Ian Wright was 28 when he joined Arsenal and went on to break their goalscoring record.
28 is a prime age and has a good few years left.
Ian Wright was 28 when he joined Arsenal and went on to break their goalscoring record.
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/europa-league-2011-2012.334319/page-32
A lot of the people who were in this thread will be very happy now. Falcao was utterly sensational that night (Europa League final 2012)
A lot of the people who were in this thread will be very happy now. Falcao was utterly sensational that night (Europa League final 2012)
problem?
The club confirmed we have an option to buy.
Robin van Persie
“I am happy with the arrival of Falcao.
“He makes us a better team. You always have to aim for the best at a big club. That’s my philosophy as well. Falcao has to fight for his place, just like me. The two of us and Wayne Rooney and James Wilson will have to fight it out.”
Angel di Maria
“It will be great to have a striker like Falcao. I will try to adapt to English football quick.”
Wayne Rooney
“I obviously don’t know how Falcao‘s arrival could affect my role, that’s something you’ll have to ask Louis van Gaal.
“I think it is a fantastic signing. He is one of the best players in the world. It is a real show of intent by Manchester United.
“It is a thrill. We have an exciting team. I am looking forward to the challenges ahead and I want it to be successful.”
Cristiano Ronaldo
“He is very good player. I think Manchester did very well. I don’t think he is the wrong type of player. He is a top player so I don’t think it is a wrong buy. I think he will be a fantastic buy. Manchester have not started well, two points, so they need quality players and Falcao is a quality player.”
Dwight Yorke
“Falcao is a number nine, the ultimate number nine. You look at his goalscoring record and he’s a phenomenal striker. He’s not interested in link-up play, he just knows how to hit the back of the net. He’s the best goalscorer in the world right now.”
http://thepeoplesperson.com/2014/09...naldo-excited-falcao-manchester-united-52463/
“I am happy with the arrival of Falcao.
“He makes us a better team. You always have to aim for the best at a big club. That’s my philosophy as well. Falcao has to fight for his place, just like me. The two of us and Wayne Rooney and James Wilson will have to fight it out.”
Angel di Maria
“It will be great to have a striker like Falcao. I will try to adapt to English football quick.”
Wayne Rooney
“I obviously don’t know how Falcao‘s arrival could affect my role, that’s something you’ll have to ask Louis van Gaal.
“I think it is a fantastic signing. He is one of the best players in the world. It is a real show of intent by Manchester United.
“It is a thrill. We have an exciting team. I am looking forward to the challenges ahead and I want it to be successful.”
Cristiano Ronaldo
“He is very good player. I think Manchester did very well. I don’t think he is the wrong type of player. He is a top player so I don’t think it is a wrong buy. I think he will be a fantastic buy. Manchester have not started well, two points, so they need quality players and Falcao is a quality player.”
Dwight Yorke
“Falcao is a number nine, the ultimate number nine. You look at his goalscoring record and he’s a phenomenal striker. He’s not interested in link-up play, he just knows how to hit the back of the net. He’s the best goalscorer in the world right now.”
http://thepeoplesperson.com/2014/09...naldo-excited-falcao-manchester-united-52463/
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