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Isn't it funny how he said the talks went on for months, but we the general public only found out the night before? That is some very private dealing done by Woodward, kudos to the man on that part.
I bet Madrid fans right now would have loved to have heard Di Maria setting up Falcao. At the minute it's James to Benzema
(Or Kroos to Ronaldo....)
(Or Kroos to Ronaldo....)
Is he getting any friendly action? (not a euphemism)
"We were in talks for some months". That is how United does business love it!!
but when i heard the public opinion and read the newspapers, i thought he was a panic buy? I thought we splashed silly money on players we didnt need?
If we were in talks for months then we left it bloody late to get the deal done, especially given that Falcao apparently announced on Twitter that he was joining Madrid
Yup. I'm a lot more comfortable with regards to him recovering properly as even though he tried his best to make the world cup, and probably could've played like Suarez and Vidal, he didn't take the risk and didn't play. Better for himself long term probably.
Wouldn't surprise me if Mendes had spoken to half the world about Falcao, that's how he does business. Talks may have been very informal up until the very last minute. The chatter from Spain is that the Falcao Madrid tweet was Mendes' idea to flush out interest.
Watch this space, then he Falcao Punched us right in the space.''Watch this space'' ... Woodward you big tease
Still can't believe we've signed Radamel Falcao 
Just surreal.
Just surreal.
wouldnt that be contradicting? I mean if you announce you are joining Madrid, interest would disappear, especially with Mendes offering him to every club. Everybody knew he was available, you dont have to do this to gain interest in Falcaos case.
I think it's relatively safe to presume Mata's been giving him welcome hugs.
Why would clubs declare their interest after Falcao states he's joining Madrid?
A study in america found 85% recovered to their former level or even better after doing their ACL so I like those chances along with the fact he didn't rush back for the WC like you say.
I'd imagine Falcao was in talks with most of the top clubs in Europe at some point, if only to sound them out. I'd also imagine we're constantly keeping contact with potential signings we may never actually end up signing at all. After all, when you're already dealing with Mendes it's very easy to sound out the availability and potential terms of his other players.
In other words I wouldn't read too much into the fact that we had been in contact for that long.
If we were genuinely in talks for months, it's even weirder. Just a really weird transfer. Not complaining though.
Just like with Rojo as well.
Yep. I had mine done 2 months ago and my doctor said that most of the time they recover fine, and stronger even if you do all the recovery properly.
Probably hints to the fact that they've known for more than a while that Cicha, Kagawa and Welbeck were not long for this club.
The only reason some rivals are going on about Falcao wanting to go to Real and not us is because they are peeved he didn't join them. Anyway,So what if he did ? He's at United now.
Reals loss is our gain.
Reals loss is our gain.
That sounds promising. As a recent example, Bebe fecked his ACL just after going on loan to Besiktas, and he's just had a season beyond what anyone would ever have expected from him. Hasn't lost any pace or power
That was study of mainly amateur players of both sexes from the ages of 11 to 53, so those numbers aren't quite representable for professionals.
English dubbed.
Quite right. Though professionals would have better treatment thus greater expected success rate I would imagine.
Every time I see this topic I click back thinking I've gone into the transfer forum!
Well, in the study only 72% returned to footie at all. That number is certainly greater amongst professionals. But, while 85% of pros might return to play - at least for a while - at the level (as in league/division) they were pre-injury, I'm fairly certain much more that 15% come back as inferior players to some degree. I once read a study of the stats of NBA and NFL players pre and post ACL-reconstruction and 70% or so were never able to match their pre-injury exploits.
Falcao will be fine. He's started the season very well and even if he's only 95% of what he was, he'll still be one of the best goalscorers in the world for the next three or four seasons.
Worth checking out I reckon. Some stunning skills in these 20 goals.
Yea, im convinved he was shopped round to effectively every top club. it was probably us and madrid left in the running due to ffp etc and apparently madrid were low balling offers. i wish he was more honest about the madrid interest, its a bit frustrating to hear "it was only united etc, best club etc" when he litterally announced he was going to madrid the day before and would have said the same stuff there. Not a massive issue, huge fan and im sure he's really pleased to be here.
Who's seen the song Atletico had for him then? It's an absolute belter. Not big on words, but Viva Ronaldo esque.
He'll be featuring vs Brazil on Friday ?
I think so, he is in the squad and match fit.
Belter of a chant, that! Hope we hear it belted out next week in the Stretty.
That's pretty much what I think, but United is still a big club and I would like to believe he might have picked us in part because it's United. In his first interview he couldn't contain a smile at all so in any case it seems like he's excited to be here
That's the one! Love it. I seem to have been about a day late on the uptake but I can't get the thing out of my head! Class.
What have we done.
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