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2014-15 Performances


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5.4 Season Average Rating
Appearances
29
Goals
4
Assists
5
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There should of been warning signs when Madrid didn't buy him last summer. I mean the press made it sound like it was a certainty and Madrid are the biggest muppet club there is and there weren't many bigger 'names' than Falcao available last summer.
 
He can't press from the front effectively or with any intensity, so our 'new found system' wouldn't work with him up top alone.

He also can't break from deep and keep up with the attack, so is useless on the counter-attack.

These things have been blatantly apparent since he arrived here and they have nothing to do with 'service', or with formation.
I feel like his pressing has been quite good to be honest, but because he was so isolated from our midfield at times there was no reason for him to press as there was always a pass on for the opposition. Maybe you are right but I would still like to see him start one game in this system and see if he trully isn't built for the league.
 
He won't stay in this league. I don't think he will risk another difficult year in the premier league. It's just too quick, too intense and too physical for him. Another tough year like this one and his stock will be at rock bottom, he currently has some benefit of the doubt that it's the circumstances at United rather than him and he could reach old heights.
 
Can't imagine him going to a team out of the CL for a second year running, even if he has been poor.

Like Liverpool can afford a £40m fee + wages for a question mark.
 
Yes please.Liverpool with Balotelli and Falcao (the current one) as strikers would set them up to another 5 no CL season.
 
He'll move on to some rich Russian team where he'll score about 6 goals. Not the Falcao we remember from Spain and Portugal.
 
He's been a disappointment but he's not alone. DM has been shocking without the excuses of injuries. I think LVG has said it takes a season to settle and I think that applies to all the newbies. I get the feeling its not a done deal that he's going. Watch this space but I recon he'll still be here next season. We'll sign him for an undisclosed fee to save everyone's blushes and renegotiate his terms.
 
His agent just released this statement:

Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate
With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon
Of human thought or form, – where art thou gone?
Why dost thou pass away and leave our state,
This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?

He won't stay in England now. That nails it.
 
Can't imagine him going to a team out of the CL for a second year running, even if he has been poor.

Like Liverpool can afford a £40m fee + wages for a question mark.

I can imagine exactly that. He has a phobia of that competition. Could see Everton taking a punt.
 
If he cut his wage demands, I'd want him to stay tbh - a full pre-season and a run of games without injury he's going to hit form again, not as ruthless as his Atleti days maybe, but he'll add a sizeable amount of goals.
 
If he cut his wage demands, I'd want him to stay tbh - a full pre-season and a run of games without injury he's going to hit form again, not as ruthless as his Atleti days maybe, but he'll add a sizeable amount of goals.

Why? He has brought nothing to the team in his year here. We have a 25-man squad for Premier League and (hopefully) Champions League, I'd rather we had good players capable of positive contribution in there as opposed to a big name that hasn't delivered in the slightest.
 
If he cut his wage demands, I'd want him to stay tbh - a full pre-season and a run of games without injury he's going to hit form again, not as ruthless as his Atleti days maybe, but he'll add a sizeable amount of goals.

Not for 43m.
 
Why? He has brought nothing to the team in his year here. We have a 25-man squad for Premier League and (hopefully) Champions League, I'd rather we had good players capable of positive contribution in there as opposed to a big name that hasn't delivered in the slightest.

Not for 43m.

Maybe i'm being hopeful but he just seems out of sorts and hasn't had enough time back playing regular football.

He's not worth his price tag though not even close.
 
Maybe i'm being hopeful but he just seems out of sorts and hasn't had enough time back playing regular football.

He's not worth his price tag though not even close.
His age is also a big issue for me, even if he does improve somewhat he'll decline very quickly. Would prefer someone younger like Dybala.
 
His age is also a big issue for me, even if he does improve somewhat he'll decline very quickly. Would prefer someone younger like Dybala.

Definitely, I'd rather give Wilson some game time ahead of Falcao too.
 
Maybe i'm being hopeful but he just seems out of sorts and hasn't had enough time back playing regular football.

He's not worth his price tag though not even close.
He's had a year. He's not proven himself and needs to leave.
 
He's had a year. He's not proven himself and needs to leave.

He's not even just not proven himself, he's barely shown a flicker. Of his 4 goals, 2 were taps ins. The others were decent enough goals, but I'd back any Premier League striker to bag those chances. If he'd even managed 1 game where he looked close to his best then there might be room for debate, but he hasn't.

If we're taking risks I'd rather take a risk on some young striker that's just bagged a hatful of goals in Italy or France than a risk on Falcao.
 
He's not even just not proven himself, he's barely shown a flicker. Of his 4 goals, 2 were taps ins. The others were decent enough goals, but I'd back any Premier League striker to bag those chances. If he'd even managed 1 game where he looked close to his best then there might be room for debate, but he hasn't.

If we're taking risks I'd rather take a risk on some young striker that's just bagged a hatful of goals in Italy or France than a risk on Falcao.
Exactly, there hasn't been a single point aside from perhaps his first 30 minutes on the pitch for us where he genuinely looked good against Leicester where he'd have justified spending any money on him, or even merit a place in our 25-man squad.
 
He's been a disappointment but he's not alone. DM has been shocking without the excuses of injuries. I think LVG has said it takes a season to settle and I think that applies to all the newbies. I get the feeling its not a done deal that he's going. Watch this space but I recon he'll still be here next season. We'll sign him for an undisclosed fee to save everyone's blushes and renegotiate his terms.

He's gone. The club decided that as far back as January.

Martin Samuel, one of the most experienced and well-connected men in British sports writing said as much.

Falcao has struggled a lot more than our other summer signings. Di Maria has generally been one of the team's better players, in spite of his recent struggles, and has contributed towards more points on the board than Falcao.

Falcao has been rather terrible, which is quite sad. I wish him all the luck in the world, but his time here is done. On this season's evidence he'll struggle to excel in England full stop.
 
Don't really care where he ends up next season - he's finished as a top level striker.

I think his best is probably behind him but I wouldnt write him off just yet - Im sure he would score goals as a regular starter in Serie A or somewhere like that. But he is going to have to take a serious wage cut
 
Physically he is done. He is just very one-paced, and that isn't a particularly fast pace.
I guess he could go to Italy, but I don't think we'll see him scoring 20+ goals a season in a top league again.
 
Thankfully it was just a loan. Hopefully we can spend that money on a potential world class striker. I wish him the best of luck and think he'll be better next year, but not anywhere near the Falcao that played for Atletico
 
This is hilarious.:lol:
Take a look at this video on YouTube:
Radamel Falcao: 'Please Don't Make Me Play For Liverpool!'*

:lol:
He reminds me of a member of the Jackson family, got that sort of femine look about him.
 
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