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It is truly painful to see a player fall from the best striker in world football to a striker who can't score against teenagers.
I would give up sex for year to see the old Falcao here but as it stands we are only seeing 20% if that of the former man.
How just how can he go from making FIFA TOTY a few years back to this? I will give him till the end of the season to prove he's worth keeping but I reckon LVG's decision is made already - get rid.
I would give up sex for year to see the old Falcao here but as it stands we are only seeing 20% if that of the former man.
How just how can he go from making FIFA TOTY a few years back to this? I will give him till the end of the season to prove he's worth keeping but I reckon LVG's decision is made already - get rid.
He was absolutely shite. I dont care anymore. Falcao, even if he gets back to a decent level again in his career, had enough chances. The only logical thing is to end his loan spell. The earlier the better. This vine posted earlier sums him up
Doesn't sound like the U/21 match was a good outing for him then. Sooner this loan is over the better.
Its quite sad..really wanted it to work out for him here, the sexy bastard
Watch him spark into life when he leaves.
Before. At the time we signed him he scored 3 in 5 I believe
As long as he's playing for a side who'll whip crosses into the box in front of him, he'll score goals. Falcao was a phenomenal striker until that cruciate, but that is no longer the career-ending injury it used to be. We've seen Di Maria go from being one of Real's best players to a donkey in the space of a few months. We've seen Rooney, our third-highest goalscorer, stuck in midfield where he's ineffective, and Valencia turned into a full-time full back. The problem is not with Falcao.
Di Maria looks physically fine, he's just made struggled a bit in terms of ball retention in a mediocre footballing side. Nothing too weird.
Falcao is not the man he was, physically. It may come back, or it may not. At 29, with his injury record, you'd bet against it, though if he can split the difference he can at least get back to being a very good 1 in 2 striker. Still not going to be enough to be better than Rooney or Mata as a central attacker.
Falcao is not the man he was, physically. It may come back, or it may not. At 29, with his injury record, you'd bet against it, though if he can split the difference he can at least get back to being a very good 1 in 2 striker. Still not going to be enough to be better than Rooney or Mata as a central attacker.
If you go to Squawka and crunch the numbers, Falcao's conversion of non-penalty shots (including headers) from inside the box is less impressive than Hernandez's. That's true comparing them both out of form and them both in form.
In La Liga 2012/3 Falcao scored 28 goals of which 8 were pens and 2 shots from outside the box. He converted 18 out of 78 non-penalty shots from inside the box. Hernandez in 2012/3 converted 10 out of 37 shots from inside the box. Out of form Falcao has 4 goals from 24 attempts inside the box this season in the PL. Out of form Hernandez scored 4 from 18 attempts inside the box last season in the PL.
The fact that Atletico got a lot of pens and Falcao took them, made him seem far more impressive than his own good but hardly amazing, conversion stats indicate.
At International level Falcao has a phenomenal 21 goals in 54 appearances while Hernandez has a modest 38 in 70 appearances (I don't have the break-down of starts/sub appearances or pens scored. Or indeed opponents faced. They may explain the difference)
Indeed if you go to Youtube and watch the video of all Falcao's goals for Atletico, the vast majority are of the type that Hernandez scored for us; only a handful demonstrate exceptional skill that you wouldn't associate with Chicharito.
We made the common mistake of assuming someone else's glamorous cow was superior to our own cow, when in reality the difference is negligible.
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What a shame for Falcao. We now know why he's on the bench. On this performance, he wouldn't have made a jot of difference if he'd come on in the match with the Arse.
How does a player fall so far?
Is it purely physical after his injuries or is it a mental issue?
Perhaps he needs to pay a visit to Professor Hans Shoegaarten?
Is it purely physical after his injuries or is it a mental issue?
Perhaps he needs to pay a visit to Professor Hans Shoegaarten?
Shite for the U21s as well, Good to hear Rafael had a decent game.
Falcao fails to shine for U21s
http://www.teamtalk.com/manchester-...ar-Radamel-Falcao-fails-to-shine-for-reserves
Falcao fails to shine for U21s
http://www.teamtalk.com/manchester-...ar-Radamel-Falcao-fails-to-shine-for-reserves
If he can't even cut it for the U21s, then there's not much hope left for his footballing career. Like people said for the last few weeks, you would expect him to give it all in order to get up in the pecking order.
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Before the injury
He's finished, poor lad.
The problem is with Falcao. Lots of great crosses whipped into the box last night but he was always a yard behind them, or on his heels, too slow to react. Same stuff we've seen from him all season.
We have a lot of problems but in this story United is not a problem. Falcao is not his old self. Sure he didnt have service, but poor touches, being outmuscled even by teenagers, let alone PL players, not running behind defenses, being late for crosses and passes, and fluffing even the chances he got. thats not on the club.
People mentioning that sub vs sunderland - thats getting ridiculous, lvg has decided to make a sub before the pen and subbed him.. Even if he stayed nothing exceptional would have happened.
People mentioning that sub vs sunderland - thats getting ridiculous, lvg has decided to make a sub before the pen and subbed him.. Even if he stayed nothing exceptional would have happened.
These days you just have to be an OShea to make Falcao look good.
@Orton - what did you make of Falcao's showing for the U21's?
He did score one of the most skillful goals I've ever seen for us mind you...
He looked really down when coming off the pitch 
Surely nobody can still be calling for him to start for us in the Prem? He's awful. It's a shame but he's completely lost everything that once made him brilliant.
A lack of confidence is clearly also an issue. I don't think he is anywhere near the player he once was, but he is better than he has shown lately.
When he came back around Christmas he was playing OK. Villa, Newcastle, first half against Spurs, Stoke. And that was coming back from injury and needing game time (although the team as a whole was playing well then). Now his confidence is shot but he can do better than he has been doing. It's funny that the last thing he did on the pitch for the first team was the best thing we've seen from him then he immediately got subbed off, I wish he'd gotten to finish that game.
Confidence is a funny thing, just look at Andy Cole's time at United.
Confidence is a funny thing, just look at Andy Cole's time at United.
If you can't show even a glipse of that against relegation fodder, League 1 & 2 opposition or in an U-21 match i'd say there's a good chance you've lost it.
I would go as far as saying that he has Shevchenko'd.
I don't like that look on his face, it always seems like he's in pain (even early on in that video).
Man, I feel sorry for him. Then I remember the fact that he makes more in a week than I do over a year.
Well, he's still being paid more in a week than many (any?) of us earn in a year to knock a football around.
Hard for me to feel too sorry for him.
That said, I hope he finds somewhere to enjoy another few seasons of good football - Italy or the MLS is where he should be.
Good luck to the man.
Hard for me to feel too sorry for him.
That said, I hope he finds somewhere to enjoy another few seasons of good football - Italy or the MLS is where he should be.
Good luck to the man.
I did, he had much better movement and control in France. However he was already on the decline and not scoring consistently with the chances he had, Ranieri had to partner him with Rivière from Newcastle because Falcao up top alone wasn't working that well. I think the knee injury may have just emphasized a decline in his footballing skills.
Absolutely spot on.
I didn't know we weren't allowed to feel sorry for wealthy people.
I'd be surprised if theres many people on here who earn his week's salary in 5 years let alone one.
Come and step into my yacht...
Can't even score for the U21's good god.
Must be quite hard to motivate yourself for a game against the under 21s. Is it really worth putting all the effort in when it won't make a difference in the grand scheme of things? I doubt it.
The writing is on the wall for him, after LVG decided against bringing him on at Newcastle or Arsenal when we was chasing the game. It's a shame because i believe if he was used better, he would have recaptured some of that form from Atleti.
I never said people weren't allowed to feel sorry for him. I just personally don't. Not that much anyway. You can see he's trying, but it's just not working out.
For sentimental reasons, I was disappointed we let go of Cleverley, for example, but he's not exactly pulling up trees in Villa, isn't he? It was a good decision in hindsight, and one I now agree with. Same goes to Anderson, Welbeck or Kagawa, all players I had hoped would eventually come good.
Falcao might do better in another club (another reason why I don't feel that sorry for him, he'll get a chance at another club) but signing him is not a risk I want the club to take.
I think we're better off rid, definitely.
I do think there is something tragic about watching a once great sportsman coming to terms with the fact that his powers are fading prematurely. I'm sure that hurts deeply and his salary won't take that pain away. I feel sorry for him.
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