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LawCharltonBest said:
Why do you care about his wages? Do you know United's accounts down the the penny? Just maybe we can easily afford them whilst continuing to sign our targets?
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We would become the laughing stock of football if we went out and spent 30 million to buy him then paid him 300k a week, he will never return to the Falcao of old that's plain to see.

If he finished the season with some goals then itd be worth considering but it's no exaggeration when I say he looks like a pub player.
 
Amethyst said:
@LawCharltonBest

My problem is, he's shown no signs of getting close to that player again- if anything he looked better around September/October. Even if he does recover some form, I don't think he'll ever be the same player because physically he just doesn't look right and that's exacerbated by playing in a physical league like the Premier League verses La Liga or Serie A. Even to just extend his loan rather than buying him, it's not worth it.
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That is very possible. I would not throw all my chips at the Falcao bandwagon. And I cited Shevchenko and Torres as examples of World Class strikers who never recovered.

However, I would definitely keep him until the end of 2015 to see how he does fare after the Summer break. Maybe he needed a year to recover, maybe he needs a small operation in the Summer on his knee that will help. I think the risk is worth it purely for how good he was pre-injury. If there's a chance he can regain that for a year or two, everyone will again want him to stay at United. Things can quickly change in football. If he scores 2 goals, suddenly he becomes a hero again.

My prediction is that we will extend the loan 6 months. But we shall see.
 
dannyrhinos89 said:
We would become the laughing stock of football if we went out and spent 30 million to buy him then paid him 300k a week, he will never return to the Falcao of old that's plain to see.

If he finished the season with some goals then itd be worth considering but it's no exaggeration when I say he looks like a pub player.
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Like I said before, I would not endorse signing him. Just extending the loan until January. If the only way to keep him is to sign him for those sums then yes I agree with all of you and we shouldn't touch it.
 
LawCharltonBest said:
Like I said before, I would not endorse signing him. Just extending the loan until January. If the only way to keep him is to sign him for those sums then yes I agree with all of you and we shouldn't touch it.
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Don't think Monaco will play ball with another loan though, they'll want a sale so other teams will probably be in for him, I've heard juve linked quite a lot.
 
dannyrhinos89 said:
Don't think Monaco will play ball with another loan though, they'll want a sale so other teams will probably be in for him, I've heard juve linked quite a lot.
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I think Monaco would be willing to loan again, it gets him off the payroll. Of course if a team comes in with a good price trying to sign him, Monaco will want that. But it's probably Jorge Mendes with the strings. And Juve would not pay the wages that United would.
 
Monaco have revealed Manchester United have told them they have not ruled out keeping Radamel Falcao next season.

Monaco say they held a meeting with Manchester United last week where they said no decision had been made on Radamel Falcao.

United have the option to turn Falcao's one-year loan deal into a £43.2m permanent transfer in the summer.

The Colombian striker has scored four goals in 27 appearances this season and has been widely tipped to leave Old Trafford.

But Monaco vice-president Vadim Vasilyev says United have told the French club they haven't yet made a decision about whether or not to keep the 29-year-old.

Vasilyev told L'Equipe: “I met the Manchester officials last Sunday. They have not decided if they would exercise the option.

“It has not been his best season, but they will decide at the season.

“The decision lies with Manchester and then we will discuss with the player to know what he wants.”

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...evealed-manchester-united-tell-monaco-9179074
 
RedMachine03 said:
Monaco have revealed Manchester United have told them they have not ruled out keeping Radamel Falcao next season.

Monaco say they held a meeting with Manchester United last week where they said no decision had been made on Radamel Falcao.

United have the option to turn Falcao's one-year loan deal into a £43.2m permanent transfer in the summer.

The Colombian striker has scored four goals in 27 appearances this season and has been widely tipped to leave Old Trafford.

But Monaco vice-president Vadim Vasilyev says United have told the French club they haven't yet made a decision about whether or not to keep the 29-year-old.

Vasilyev told L'Equipe: “I met the Manchester officials last Sunday. They have not decided if they would exercise the option.

“It has not been his best season, but they will decide at the season.

“The decision lies with Manchester and then we will discuss with the player to know what he wants.”

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...evealed-manchester-united-tell-monaco-9179074
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Must be the same officials that went to Spain to sign Herrera under Moyes.
 
RedMachine03 said:
Monaco have revealed Manchester United have told them they have not ruled out keeping Radamel Falcao next season.

Monaco say they held a meeting with Manchester United last week where they said no decision had been made on Radamel Falcao.

United have the option to turn Falcao's one-year loan deal into a £43.2m permanent transfer in the summer.

The Colombian striker has scored four goals in 27 appearances this season and has been widely tipped to leave Old Trafford.

But Monaco vice-president Vadim Vasilyev says United have told the French club they haven't yet made a decision about whether or not to keep the 29-year-old.

Vasilyev told L'Equipe: “I met the Manchester officials last Sunday. They have not decided if they would exercise the option.

“It has not been his best season, but they will decide at the season.

“The decision lies with Manchester and then we will discuss with the player to know what he wants.”

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...evealed-manchester-united-tell-monaco-9179074
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obscene.
 
Held to ransom if so. A big no thanks to this "offer".
 
So basically it would be that we would take the junk no one wants because he's finished for 40m and then DDG will sign? Id say we show the door to both and never deal with Mendez again.
 
devilish said:
So basically it would be that we would take the junk no one wants because he's finished for 40m and then DDG will sign? Id say we show the door to both and never deal with Mendez again.
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Agree 100%, i had a feeling this may happen a few weeks ago and if we are being strong armed by Mendes into signing Falcao then Woody and the United board need to tell to fck off.

The other angle is that Mendes is a close friend/acquaintance of Fergie and maybe Woody doesn't want to cause any conflict between the them.
 
Nate Dogg said:
Agree 100%, i had a feeling this may happen a few weeks ago and if we are being strong armed by Mendes into signing Falcao then Woody and the United board need to tell to fck off.

The other angle is that Mendes is a close friend/acquaintance of Fergie and maybe Woody doesn't want to cause any conflict between the them.
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You dont spend 40m on junk because you dont want Fergie to lose his mate. I think it was SAF who once said that no one is bigger than the club.
 
I don't understand why we would pay a striker £200k a week, who we would probably looked to ship out, to keep a GK who will also be on £200k a week.

We would effectively be paying £400k a week to keep De Gea and this is without taking into consideration a loan / transfer fee for Falcao.

I would love De Gea to stay, but jeez...
 
Assuming there's a huge lack of interest in Falcao, Mendes would be daft not to create links between de Gea's situation and Falcao's situation.
 
SammyUnited_83 said:
I don't understand why we would pay a striker £200k a week, who we would probably looked to ship out, to keep a GK who will also be on £200k a week.

We would effectively be paying £400k a week to keep De Gea and this is without taking into consideration a loan / transfer fee for Falcao.

I would love De Gea to stay, but jeez...
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Worth it.
 
SammyUnited_83 said:
I don't understand why we would pay a striker £200k a week, who we would probably looked to ship out, to keep a GK who will also be on £200k a week.

We would effectively be paying £400k a week to keep De Gea and this is without taking into consideration a loan / transfer fee for Falcao.

I would love De Gea to stay, but jeez...
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It would be compensated if we ditched Rooney - Rvp.
 
Nah that's nonsense... I'm not letting it ruin my "we only have 3 more games with him" street party.
 
“If I’d brought Radamel Falcao, we might as well make Jorge Mendes president of Real Madrid!” - Perez last year.

Definitely seems plausible then that Mendes would use his clients in such ways. That, plus Andy Mitten's recent piece saying that 'goodwill to one player could carry over to another with the same agent' sounds somewhat ominous. Obviously you never know what Mitten knows and what he's guessing, but he definitely has his sources inside the club.

Hopefully, Falcao will decide to go elsewhere for his own good too, but an offer from us could do him some good in negotiations with other clubs.
 
There's been some bad business done in the last few years by our club, but signing Falcao to a permanent deal for £42 million would really take the cake. Or is it the biscuit? Pfft it would be that ludicrous it would take the cake and the biscuit.
 
This would be the worst deal we've ever made, we'd essentially be re-buying a keeper we already own for £40M as Falcao is as much use as a bikini shop in Afghanistan.
 
I'll seriously question the way this club is being run if we sign this man on a permanent deal. Imagine this happening under SAF. It simply wouldn't.
 
Why would he even want to stay? He will hardly even get any minutes next season.

Getting played like fools by a football agent will not look good on the image of this club, even Real Madrid seem to have had enough of that clown Mendes, I'm sure if enough clubs boycott him he will fade into nothingness and all his clients will leave him too. We should actually try reverse threats for a change.
 
I'm not sure he's even worth signing to keep de Gea.

I'd be mightily unimpressed should we sign him and it'll be a big negative hanging over van Gaal's and Woodward's head.
 
I dont believe anything regarding Mendes forcing Falcao onto us, as part of De Gea deal.
At the end of the day De Gea makes his own decisions, while taking advice from his agent.
If his agent tells him, "stay at Man Utd because Falcao is staying as part of the deal" De Gea wont give a damn.
Mendes does not own or employ De Gea. In fact, its the other way around.
If De Gea was a teenager, then Mendes manipulation would be a worry. But at De Gea's age - he'll decide whats right for him.

Furthermore, to even suggest that Man Utd would be held ransom to Mendes' demands (regarding Falcao and De Gea) is ridiculous.
If Ed Woodward calls up LVG and says, "Louis, we are trying to negotiate a deal for De Gea, but Mendes is insisting that we Falcao or De Gea is gone, what do you think we should do?"
LVG will call Mendes and probably give him the hair dryer treatment.

Some of you are not aware of the temper LVG has on him and how strong-willed he is. He will absolutely not be told which player to buy/sell/play.
If Falcao stays its because LVG has told E.Woodward that he wants him to stay.

Whichever way I look at it, Man Utd wont fall for this (forced) Falcao-De Gea (dual) deal.
 
If he is here next season, there will be some serious questions that require answering.
His wages alone make it a complete joke
 
Is that even legal? Holding us to ransom on De Gea's contract because his other client is shite and saying if we want one, we have to stump up 40m for the other?
 
Can we not just give Mendes 5 million pounds or something? 2 Bebes would be much cheaper than this.

Falcao should just go to Valencia, Wolfsburg or Milan or something. He'll play better than he has here (another year after the injury) and end up with decent but not outstanding goalscoring numbers and everyone's happy.
 
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