Good news, hopefully it's true.
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If the manager wants to go with one up top he needs only three strikers, he has that in Rooney, RVP and Wilson but if he wants Rooney to play behind the striker then he could do with signing one.
Got a good feeling about tonight. Reckon he scores 2.
Good news! Time to look out for some good young strikers/forwards.
We should have made up our own L'equipe quotes months ago. Its destined to happen tonight!!!
You're about the 20th person to say this this season. It would represent a 50% increase on his goals tally this season so would be very impressive.
The last good feeling I had was Liverpool at home. Take from that what you will.
If true Rooney should be up top from now on .... Wilson given chances and Mata more time at 10.
Yeah Newcastle typically play open football so there's a good chance will get a few chances to put away.
I take from that that you don't get good feelings very often, they're not based on anything concrete and they have feck all effect on a group of 11 men playing a game of football 300 miles away.
I feel sorry for the guy because we create bugger all in games. Stick him in the Liverpool team and he'd score loads.
We have scored more than Liverpool so far this season
But they haven't had any strikers. Now Sturridge is back they look strong again.
Then why hasn't Balotelli or Lambert done well there? Liverpool are all about mobility and interplay. Falcao wouldn't fit. Rooney would score loads up front, though.
I don't think he'll suddenly have the ability to "switch it on" and score a hat-trick tonight and loads before the end of the season... his ability has all but deserted him - he is no longer even capable of doing half of things not only that he used to do, but that any striker operating at a high level can do.
I'm not so sure and that would mean he's in form its just that our style doesnt suit him, and its not that simple.
Maybe I'm just disappointed. When we signed him and Di Maria I thought we'd be back, and we're still shite.
Rooney has scored 3 in his last 3 upfront. We aren't creating a shed load, but RvP and Falcao certainly aren't putting the ones we are away.
No idea whether he goes or stays. Despite who comes in, the issues however will be exactly the same in my opinion. New players to the league take at least a year to settle in general. Young players introduced into the team can take even longer to find consistency. So let's buy a foreign young striker then....and see how long it takes the vultures to start circling about his performances!!!
I love the throw away comments like lets buy a striker like world class players are really available out there. Do people think we are the only team looking for world class players? Unfortunately, at present we can only sign players for ridiculously over priced money, and then that's based on the players are so called competitors don't want. Does anyone think DM would be here if Real wanted to keep him.
I suggest we be careful what we wish for.......
I love the throw away comments like lets buy a striker like world class players are really available out there. Do people think we are the only team looking for world class players? Unfortunately, at present we can only sign players for ridiculously over priced money, and then that's based on the players are so called competitors don't want. Does anyone think DM would be here if Real wanted to keep him.
I suggest we be careful what we wish for.......
Me too. Something about St. James' and proper #9s.
Falcao has been largely poor for us, but I think things could have been very different if not for a few moments things could have gone very differently. I think the injury after the goal at Everton was very untimely, plus all the back-and-forthing with Columbia in general to be honest. I also think the volleyed-lob against Leicester that came back off the underside of the bar would have changed things. Narrative plays a part in football, and confidence cannot be high for Falcao. At the point of the Leicester game, the narrative was all about our dream strikeforce that was going to blow teams away. They had just craqpped on QPR, and had begun the game against Leicester in the same vein. Di Maria scored a stunner, Falcao assisted Persie brilliantly.. If we had gone on to win that with that Falcao lob, it would have perpetuated that theme, opponents would start to fear it too, and confidence would be high for Falcao.
I think a good few weeks early on would have led to a different Falcao. As it stands, I can't argue that he has been far from good enough though.
That Leicester game.. ugh.. If we had won it comfotbably like we should have our season might have been a bit different.
The yard of pace and bit of acceleration he has lost has just killed him as a world class player, he can't run behind anymore and every time the ball gets played into him defenders know he can't turn them and he doesn't have the strength or control to play with his back to goal.
I only see him being effective if he is in a team where everything is served on a plate to him or he plays in a less competitive league. The story today about us deciding not to sign him should be the only outcome and is the best decision going forward. Hope he doesn't start tonight, fed up of watching him losing the ball and he just doesn't contribute enough.
I only see him being effective if he is in a team where everything is served on a plate to him or he plays in a less competitive league. The story today about us deciding not to sign him should be the only outcome and is the best decision going forward. Hope he doesn't start tonight, fed up of watching him losing the ball and he just doesn't contribute enough.
What I dont understand is that he dont even tries to run behind.
Cuz he knows his lack of pace will be totally exposed?
If every man and his dog has noticed that Falcao looks woefully slow in the PL, I'm sure he's noticed it himself too and I doubt he wants to show that off.
I'm 100% convinced we would have been comfortable in the top 4 now if we had won it. It shattered the teams confidence a bit, and it also caused LvG to try the 3-5-2 formation to remedy our defensive troubles.
Yeah.
he has lost pace and acceleration and cause of that lost a lot of confidence too.
Yeah, thinks so to... It all looked so great until that penalty...
Can't be much more uneffective than him running 20 yards back into midfield showing for the ball, then getting it, being knocked off the ball and losing it again in less than 2 seconds.
Keeping him definitely won't resolve anything and will be a complete waste of money. Not every player needs time to adapt and even if we can't find someone who is world class finding someone who can perform better than falcao has done won't be too difficult. At least with a younger player there is the potential for improvement in the future as well, falcao will be 30 within six months of signing for us permanently in the summer and will cost a fortune.
Best case scenario is he scores a few goals to help us finish in the top 4 and to salvage his reputation and earns a move somewhere else.
He knows he can't do it anymore, he looks like he is running through treacle anytime he does try to run. He is also clearly suffering from a lack of confidence, regaining some would improve him a bit but the pace and the acceleration are gone for good and given his age are only going to deteriorate further reasonably soon.
Definitely a turning point.
The good news to come out of this is, at least we'll be in for a new striker in the summer, which is always exciting. Funny that it's the last area you'd of thought we'd seriously need to address this coming summer. Typical of our luck sometimes..
It's exciting but it's also an incredibly hard position to fill. Fergie had a midas touch but the game is full of really good managers who have had a terrible time finding a top class reliable striker for their team.
Yeah IMO he did start very brightly and a few more early goals...this thread and our season could have turned out very differently. That fecking Leicester game
At least this gets him the 'works hard' and 'great attitude' image though.
Of course you're right, but most fans don't care, or realise, that he shouldn't be doing this and indeed can't do this.
He'd be better saving his energy and constantly playing off the shoulder, but like I said, his utter lack of pace would then completely laid bare.
I feel the opposite (in regards to a brace doing wonders)... It's not like he's making runs and creating chances but not capitalising. He's simply invisible out there (not rvp hasn't been himself) and I can't see how a two goal game is going to increase his foot speed, which I think is his biggest problem right now.
If people were even considering paying 40m for Falcao (which they were), surely a 50m bid for for Kane would be worth a go. Rather than waiting two seasons and paying 80m for him or watching go to a rival.
That lad up front with Rooney behind him would be immense.
yeah it's the same thing every game. "He will start banging them in".- Status