It is a big shame that it did not work out or is not working out.
I still hope he can show the old Falcao.
I still hope he can show the old Falcao.
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If we don't sign him (which I hope we don't) then I just hope he doesn't sign for another English club.
Wasn't there a stat saying Falcao only had like 5 assists in his entire career before moving to United? Now he's already equalled that.
Admittedly I don't watch a massive amount of European football, but when I do very few strikers really impress me. I think we'll end up having to take a punt on buying a player on the way up rather than proven quality. The problem for us is, in the past we've been able to do that with top strikers there to bridge the gap while they develop. Now we have Falcao who looks past it and likely won't be here, RvP who looks like he might be on the way down the opposite side of the hill, Rooney who he seems not to fancy that much up there and Wilson who is full of promise, but who is also green at this level. I don't think it's beyond the realm that we'll have a very patchy frontline next season.
It's not funny, I quite like him and it'd be a shame to have to hate him if he joined the dippers or something.
Plus you just know he'd suddenly remember how to be a striker.
No chance another English club takes a chance on him for the money he'd cost. Most of 'em still can't afford him and Chelsea and City already have much better strikers.
Sorry I thought it was a joke – you must admit it was a funny sentence! I like him too.
Yea I'm not being 100% serious, like @KiD MoYeS said I don't see any other PL club wanting him.
I'm just a natural pessimist in these situations and can imagine him joining a rival and scoring 45 goals.
Something like that is absolutely nailed on to happen.
'All he needs is a goal'
How many times have we heard that? As if one goal is going to suddenly fix his first touch, erratic finishing, return his pace, build his strength etc etc Plus, he's scored 4 this season, and still looked as crap as ever in the following games.
How many times have we heard that? As if one goal is going to suddenly fix his first touch, erratic finishing, return his pace, build his strength etc etc Plus, he's scored 4 this season, and still looked as crap as ever in the following games.
Exactly. Yet apparently, rather then that being a weakness on Falcao's part, thats just proof that the team is rubbish.
Never have I seen a 'world class' forward need so much perfect service. Even a pass a yard overhit and he's got no chance.
Yup. Just like Shevchenko when he left Chelsea. Or Torres when he left Liverpool. Watch Falcao go. He'll leave us and after 4 years of playing like an amputee on sedatives...BAM!, he'll get a few goals in cup games.
I don't want to see him start tonight. He has lost a yard or two through injury and he has bottled it as well. We have seen that play out over the season. He has had enough chances. We don't need to continue to flogging a dead horse, we need to find a Falcaoless solution.
Personally I would rather see Rooney up top with Mata playing as the number ten.
Personally I would rather see Rooney up top with Mata playing as the number ten.
Yeah, I'm cut from the same cloth. Every time we let anyone go I have a nagging fear he'll look amazing at a different club. With Falcao's reputation and age, it's inevitable that if he went to the dippers we'd see him doing this sort of shit again.
If that happens, I'm giving up on football altogether.
Yeah, I'm cut from the same cloth. Every time we let anyone go I have a nagging fear he'll look amazing at a different club. With Falcao's reputation and age, it's inevitable that if he went to the dippers we'd see him doing this sort of shit again.
If that happens, I'm giving up on football altogether.
Judging from his ability (or lack of it thesedays) to even strike a ball cleanly, I doubt we'll be seeing too much of this ^^ again.
He did hit a rather sexy volley off the bar against Leicester.
Of course, most great strikers will be able to strike a ball cleanly long past the point at which they can play top flight football. So that's neither here nor there.
He has three years left on his Monaco contract, no other club in the Premiership will cover bit more than half his wages. For that reason I suspect he will be a Monaco player next year.
One volley in what, 7 months?
In general, his ball striking technique is horrible, he scuffs at everything.
He can barely control a football, there's no way he'll miraculously become good again next season.
His balance and mobility seems to be the main issue. Seems to be always off-balance or struggling to sort his feet out. I'm sure he's still quite capable of striking a ball cleanly in the right circumstances. But you know this, as you remember the volley I'm talking about.
He's proving the "haters" right, unfortunately. I've long gone with the "he's gonna come back with couple goals and his confidence will restore" cliche but it's March already and that hasn't happened yet and it doesn't look like so in the near future at least. I just don't see any sort of improvement from him for us any more.
'In the right circumstances'. That actually sums him up quite well.
I'm sure he can still strike a call perfectly from a standing start with no pressure, but his lack of balance (as you point out) means that in a match situation he struggles to make any kind of clean contact. He's constantly falling over and miss hitting shots. That why I'm not worried that if he left he'd start banging them in again like he did in those videos you posted, especially not in the PL. Physically he just looks shot.
I don't disagree with that. He just looks so clumsy.
I'll still expect him to score a tonne of goals if he goes to Liverpool. As irrational as that seems.
Carlos Tevez syndrome
Realistically, he wouldn't even get in that Liverpool team though (as depressing as it is to write that)
Someone has to fill the falling-over-in-the-middle-of-the-field role when Gerrard retires. Plus his first touch will have the same sort of range as Gerrard's passing.Carlos Tevez syndrome
Realistically, he wouldn't even get in that Liverpool team though (as depressing as it is to write that)
I love Falcao, and think that if he actually got some decent service, he would perform.
I also think if he was able to get the ball in positions other than him with his back to goal, with only a backwards pass on, we'd see more from him.
Our attacking play is shit under LvG....I blame him
I also think if he was able to get the ball in positions other than him with his back to goal, with only a backwards pass on, we'd see more from him.
Our attacking play is shit under LvG....I blame him
That would involve Falcao doing something other than waiting to receive the ball with his back to goal. You know, make some fecking runs. Something that's been almost completely absent from his game so far.
What like Danny Welbeck? Potential is only and no more than that. How many potential young players here have never fulfil their potential? Not saying to keep him but I'd say we have massive problems because RVP looks like he's on the downward spiral....
Amen.
Not sure how people are missing this. You can blame the service, but it must be incredibly hard to supply a striker that doesn't make any runs.
Make runs whilst we are playing the ball side to side and back again. Stats say we have played more back passes than any other team in the league.
Where else can they pass it when the two strikers are just standing there? Play it in behind, neither can get on the end of it. Play it to feet, they inevitably lose it. Stick Ageuro or Sturridge in this team and we'd look infinitely better.
Rubbish. The build up is slow and predictable. That's absolutely nothing to do with the strikers or their runs. How do you know whether the strikers havent been told that's how LVG wants them to play. Do you think he'd be starting if he was doing the opposite?
I'm sure if we sort out the movement upfront then getting the ball forward more quickly will follow.
There's no way we can sign him though, unless it has already been agreed. I don't care if he scores 40 goals next season, the very thought of him doing that is laughable at the moment, he hasn't shown anything worth having this year.
Arguably had his best performance against Newscastle at Old Trafford. Will probably start tonight.
disagree. Our passing has been poor all season. We give the ball away too easy. Our crossing has been poor. We have a lack of creativity in the side. Our play is slow and predictable.....watch Arsenal, Liverpool, City or Spurs in how quick they move the ball.....we'd sooner go backwards than take risk.
There's no way the manager wants us to play this poorly. There are a few problems in the team which are fairly solvable, and once they are the rest will click into place.
If it's true then I hope we give Wilson a chance to break through with a good run with Rooney as a #10!
If LVG goes 4-3-3 then we will probably play Rooney!
If LVG goes 4-3-3 then we will probably play Rooney!
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