He must be gone, wrong player for us in terms of his playing style and his age given the age of RVP and Rooney, factor in he has been useless and it's almost unthinkable he will be here next season.
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He must be gone, wrong player for us in terms of his playing style and his age given the age of RVP and Rooney, factor in he has been useless and it's almost unthinkable he will be here next season.
The thing I object to is how anyone can legitimately be getting paid £250,000 per week (approx) for this.
Thats an annual salary of about £12,000,000 pre-tax. Twelve million pounds. For what?
Of course the same argument exists for pretty much every footballer that they dont deserve the money they are on, but its just sickening to think of it in cases like this.
Thats an annual salary of about £12,000,000 pre-tax. Twelve million pounds. For what?
Of course the same argument exists for pretty much every footballer that they dont deserve the money they are on, but its just sickening to think of it in cases like this.
He's not even remotely close to Tevez and his past impact on the team. Waste of people's time.
Should have kept Chicha and he would outscore that shite in a few months.
Should have kept Chicha and he would outscore that shite in a few months.
I don't care about the 250k a week. Money doesn't equate to rock all in football. It's not worked out, I except that but today, how can anyone criticise that performance. He had feck all to work with and the passing and crossing was so poor.
I stand by it though, the majority of fans on here and that rock up at OT never believed in Felliani and Young last season. Both showed absolutely nothing last season and the majority wanted them gone. These are the same people that are saying that we wouldn't have won most of the games in the latest run in without their input. What's the difference with Falcao.....? It's clear we or anyone else are not going to pay 40m for him
FTFY
Brazilian Ronaldo in his heyday would look awful in our team. I still cannot see why most do not realize that the fault lies in the lack of creativity of our central midfielders. Our best striker performance for the year was RVP's 2 goals against Southampton and in that game he basically made the goals for himself.
Falcao should not play again this season because he is wasted and has lost all his confidence because of our woeful central midfield.
Mata and Herrera will ensure we dominate possession but what the heck they do with it is a completely different thing.
Falcao should not play again this season because he is wasted and has lost all his confidence because of our woeful central midfield.
Mata and Herrera will ensure we dominate possession but what the heck they do with it is a completely different thing.
Appalling. i would rather have torres.
He obviously isn't good playing with his back to goal but I still can't believe how weak he is. He's got a stocky frame yet gets bullied off the ball every bloody time.
Rubbish. R9 was the complete striker. In his heyday he had it all; shooting, dribbling, control, speed, strength. Far more than a six yard box poacher.
Nonsense.
Young and fellaini aren't success stories yet, both have plenty more to prove before they canned labelled that, let's see if they can keep up their recent performances (both have been poor last two games even) it's taken nearly 4 years for young to play at a decent level, falcao doesn't have that kind of time.
He offers nothing to the midfield and gives them nothing to work with, ca t hold the ball up, can't run, can't turn his man, must be a nightmare to play with.
He did nothing today just as he has done in pretty much very other game, that's why he can be criticised. Others were poor today but have been better at other times aNd that can't be said about falcao. He is also nearly 29, has had three serious knee injuries and hasn't proven he has recovered from the last one. Put it all together and no reason for him to be here next season because we can get someone better just as we could have had someone better than young for last few seasons.
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I backed him for ages, really hoping he would succeed here, but I realised some time around January that he was done, and I believed from then there would be no chance in us signing him permanently.
I see little point in us persisting to play him. I'd rather Wilson was given the minutes. Even an RvP lacking full fitness would surely be better.
I see little point in us persisting to play him. I'd rather Wilson was given the minutes. Even an RvP lacking full fitness would surely be better.
So he lost his confidence cause of our midfield?
Interesting theory.Nothing to do with injury or sthing like that?
You said it yourself RVP made the goals by himself, Falcao cant do even that.
And you're underestimating Ronaldo if you think he'd look awful in our team.
Our midfield doesnt create enough but to say he lost his confidence cause of it is..
Well wrong.
That's laughable, you can't have seen him play to say something like that. It's ludicrous this idea that no other striker could possibly do more than falcao, most of the strikers in the league could.
I wish it worked out for him here but its not to be, he doesnt suit our play and we dont suit his play
Ok the Brazilian Ronaldo was a bit too much of an exaggeration but do not lose sight of my point in that our main problem is the lack of creativity of our central midfielders
When he comes on these days i'm like Oh No. And he is fecking slow and all he seems to do when he gets the ball is just pass it to the nearest man backwards.
Atleast even with Hernandez you felt he would get a goal and give more movement when he came on.
Atleast even with Hernandez you felt he would get a goal and give more movement when he came on.
That's part of the problem but still -
Also his movement and hold up play seems so snail like.
Well I think Louis van Gaal thinks otherwise. The very player he replaced was Fellaini so your disagreement also seems to be with the manager, a man who in my opinion knows what he is doing.
That's not a shot on target.
We are talking about Falcao's performance in this match, he didn't 'just fall over, give the ball away and just pass it back', go and watch the match again
You are talking about the future, I have made clear in another post already his contract obviously won't be renewed, how much he earns should not relate to the level of criticism he receives for his most recent performance.
Falcao was not a standout poor performer in that team today.
Didn't know that. Weird to draw the line there.
Not really sure why Falcao's getting the grief today tbh. He came on at 2-0, with the team playing crap, and basically did exactly what he's done all season. I.e look like a player that is horribly past it.
Surely no one actually expected him to change the game today?
Surely no one actually expected him to change the game today?
Not really, if it was on target it would go in.
The only way I think he can stay on now is if we can have him for £20m plus £100k a week wages!!!
If not good luck to him where ever he goes....
If not good luck to him where ever he goes....
Not really. Shot going in = on target, shot not going in = shot off target. It would be odd to do it any other way.
Im not questioning LVG in general, but on this, he is plainly wrong. A striker who is so far off the pace that he cant even get shots off anymore is not something any team needs. Nevermind a striker who doesnt score.
We are talking about Falcao's performance in this match, he didn't 'just fall over, give the ball away and just pass it back', go and watch the match again
You are talking about the future, I have made clear in another post already his contract obviously won't be renewed, how much he earns should not relate to the level of criticism he receives for his most recent performance.
Falcao was not a standout poor performer in that team today.
That's exactly what he does, didn't do anything good today and hasn't done for a long time, watch game again yourself and you will see him do exactly what I said he does.
Money matters if that needs explaining I don't know where to start, expectation levels as going to be higher for high profile, highly paid star players, he is nowhere near that and isn't even playing at the standard of a half decent backup, laughable you think otherwise.
When you are earning £280k a week and have a £43million tag on you, then yes I expect you to change the damn game.
You can count on a hand how many times he's shown his Atletico form. Its pathetic how bad he is now.
So if it hits the post and goes in its not an on-target goal, a sort of deflection
He's a complete and utter busted flush. Everyone can see it. He's done, finished.
I honestly don't expect anything from anymore. Quite frankly, I'm just pleased when he manages to control the ball, or pass to a teammate.
So if it hits the post and goes in its not an on-target goal, a sort of deflection
In off the post is a shot on target.
That's fine but he is the man who observes Falcao in training each day and still has a job to secure, he's not playing him for fun. And let's face it, the team was poor today, even the on form player who he replaced, Falcao's performance really wasn't that bad considering what we served up.
Maybe you think Rooney played well as the 9, I don't know.
I watched the game again, I saw him shoot and hit the target and make mostly successful passes, you didn't say he does this! You said he just falls over, loses possession and passes it back (well he is a striker in a possession based system so I don't think this is actually a criticism).
How many players did play well today? Surely he has been doing something to have been the manager's choice to replace the undroppable one at 45 minutes.
What exactly did you expect him to do in that team today? I'm not saying he was good but I am saying he wasn't poorer than anybody else, whether it be Blind or Rooney, that team was poor.
So you are saying we should compare Falcao to his fee? And other players to theirs? Well thankfully the manager doesn't think like that, he has an expectation and either you meet it or you don't regardless of your fee, he wants to look onto the football pitch and judge the football.
Obviously it goes without saying when it comes to renewing contracts and stuff then you look at the cost of the player but in terms of judging Falcao's performance against Everton, his fee really doesn't have anything to do with it, just like the manager looked at his performance against Chelsea and training before judging where he ranks in his selection and not at his wage bill!
So in short, I don't think we should renew his contract as that's obvious, he was not worse than his team mates today despite what reading this thread suggests and no the performances of the players against Everton really shouldn't be judged in relation to their wage bill.
Absolutely agree. I'm not a fan but he's no way near as bad as people make out. I'd argue he's got better but people seem to think amidst poor performances across the team, he must be better because we are paying him 250k a week. I'm not sure what we expected from him this season? Let's be honest, for 60% of this season we have been poor and this hasn't been nothing to do with Falcao.
Even that would be overpaying. Which of his qualities are worth £20m?
What team would suit his play? He can't even control the ball these days.
Good post. He's had a poor year, but that's completely independent of the fact that random posters jump into this thread to have a go at him in matches where most of the team were poor.
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