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2014-15 Performances

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If we had lost, he'd be generally slated. We won, so it's more or less positive.

He contributed very little. Not sure he touched the ball more than once in his first 30 minutes.
 
caisenma said:
If we had lost, he'd be generally slated. We won, so it's more or less positive.

He contributed very little. Not sure he touched the ball more than once in his first 30 minutes.
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We were very poor in the second half. And he actually played Young and Herrera in, in the space of 15 seconds; one of the two quite easily could have scored.

His best performance in a long time, he looked far more confident than he has recently, too.
 
In no way am I trying to justify Falcao's performances this season because he's gotten the basics wrong quite often. But I think we've done no favours for our strikers this season with our style of play.

Our attack is predictable. Take seemingly 50 passes to get the ball wide and put in a cross. We hardly play the ball through the middle where the striker is unless it's a long ball over the top. Anywhere near the 18 yard box it's always going to go wide for a cross. With the way we play the only strikers that are going to have success are someone like Aguero who can beat players on his own or someone like Crouch who'll get on the end of these crosses.
 
I had to watch streaming the phone but from what I saw, completely useless! Part of it seems to be the tactics but still, if he doesn't fit after this much opportunity, I can't see him ever coming good. Sad to see but what can you do? Just glad a loan looks like a godsend now
 
shabadu84 said:
I had to watch streaming the phone but from what I saw, completely useless! Part of it seems to be the tactics but still, if he doesn't fit after this much opportunity, I can't see him ever coming good. Sad to see but what can you do? Just glad a loan looks like a godsend now
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Upgrade your phone.
 
He seemed to do as little as he usually does to me. I'm slightly baffled at the praise he's getting on here to be honest.

Sly little push for the 2nd goal was good though.
 
Amar__ said:
Not really. He did miss the penalty, but majority of the shots were out of nothing, few good ones too.
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Not sure why we're even debating this. I thought he was impressive, too. His movement seems to be on another level to the others, which is why he had so many opportunities.
 
He worked hard, wasn't bad, but ultimately he has just such little quality these days. Defenders aren't scared of him in the slightest.

The fact that he played two decent passes, and thats being talked up as if it was something special, says it all really.
 
Ixion said:
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I'm watching a replay of the 2nd half right now on my TV... What am I missing? There's nothing there in terms of hold up, link up, penetrating runs, dragging away defenders, etc. Plenty of ways to affect a performance without scoring but I can't see what he's done to help us win, today or any other day.
 
Sam said:
He worked hard, wasn't bad, but ultimately he has just such little quality these days. Defenders aren't scared of him in the slightest.

The fact that he played two decent passes, and thats being talked up as if it was something special, says it all really.
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This. I remember those 2 passes and him maybe pushing someone and that's it. If you want, United could sign me and I'd push loads of people. I might even kick some of them.
 
He did better than usual but that's partially because standards have slipped to the stage where it's an improvement if he can run 15 yards at any sort of speed without falling over. We were largely terrible in the second half which explains why according to the BBC he touched the ball 4 times in his first 30 minutes, in fairness he did play 2 good passes late on when Palace were committing players forward and leaving more gaps.

It will still be utter fecking insanity if he we keep him next season, surely Mendes doesn't have that much control over the club.
 
The thing is, expectations are so low now that we need to keep in mind how much money we are talking about. He's on one of the highest wages in the squad, and 40 million on top of that. Even based on his performance today, he's not much more than a 10 million fee, 70k per week squad player. Anything else is simply mental.
 
diarm said:
I looked at your post history this evening precious! Don't read too much into it.

The fact that your better half is a teacher but you think good grammar is petty, tells me I've invested more time in this than is worthwhile.
I'm going to place you on ignore now, lest you think I'm stalking you and feel the need to accuse me of "bipolar" again!
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Good job avoiding any football related points :lol:

Its a football forum which I access through my mobile, grammar isn't mine or pretty much anyone else's priority. Oh and Looking into someones post history doesn't sound at all stalkish... Ciao.
 
dsch said:
The thing is, expectations are so low now that we need to keep in mind how much money we are talking about. He's on one of the highest wages in the squad, and 40 million on top of that. Even based on his performance today, he's not much more than a 10 million fee, 70k per week squad player. Anything else is simply mental.
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He's one of the highest earners in world football, never mind our squad.

Its amazing how not doing anything spectacularly bad, is now considered a good performance.
 
What matters is whether there were signs of improvement in a player who has recovered from an injury that could have been career-ending, has struggled for full match-fitness since, has understandably had a hit to his confidence, and who has rarely started and only come on for minutes at a time in games where he's often had little service. I saw those signs of improvement, as did a few others. If the coaching staff saw the same thing, he might well stay, and if so I can't back this with anything but intuition, but I think we'll be pleasantly surprised next season.
 
Struggling to see how everyone seems to think that we've signed him. If we had there would be no chance in hell that Monaco would be saying we might still sign him. If anything that leads more to though pattern that we've said, no and they're trying to drum up interest in their player.
 
shabadu84 said:
I had to watch streaming the phone but from what I saw, completely useless! Part of it seems to be the tactics but still, if he doesn't fit after this much opportunity, I can't see him ever coming good. Sad to see but what can you do? Just glad a loan looks like a godsend now
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Sigh.

I take it you missed the points in the game where he tracked back to good use, set our players in behind (Young and Herrera in quick succession) caused confusion in the box for the winner (borderline foul but still..) and used his ability and hold up play very well.

It amazes me that some guys on here only look at certain aspects of a players game to draw their conclusions on how well a player is performing. Falcao today was probably the best that we've seen him yet, but because he received no service as a lone front man and was clearly instructed by LVG to come deep and look to play in other player who perhaps have more pace (Which he did very well) then he obviously had a shocker, bollocks!

I feel for Falcao, he returned from a serious injury, missed the world cup, had zero pre-season, came to us on loan while we were in transition for a second season adopting to a new manager and new coaching staff, new style of play, new team mates, new country, new tempo of play. all of this on no pre season and recovering from the pain of missing the world cup and he was expected to score 300 goals a season and play like Georgie mardona pelemessialdo.
 
Rolandofgilead said:
Sigh.

I take it you missed the points in the game where he tracked back to good use, set our players in behind (Young and Herrera in quick succession) caused confusion in the box for the winner (borderline foul but still..) and used his ability and hold up play very well.

It amazes me that some guys on here only look at certain aspects of a players game to draw their conclusions on how well a player is performing. Falcao today was probably the best that we've seen him yet, but because he received no service as a lone front man and was clearly instructed by LVG to come deep and look to play in other player who perhaps have more pace (Which he did very well) then he obviously had a shocker, bollocks!

I feel for Falcao, he returned from a serious injury, missed the world cup, had zero pre-season, came to us on loan while we were in transition for a second season adopting to a new manager and new coaching staff, new style of play, new team mates, new country, new tempo of play. all of this on no pre season and recovering from the pain of missing the world cup and he was expected to score 300 goals a season and play like Georgie mardona pelemessialdo.
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No, but he was expected to contribute much more than he has and also be able to at least show basic football skills.
 
Rolandofgilead said:
Sigh.

I take it you missed the points in the game where he tracked back to good use, set our players in behind (Young and Herrera in quick succession) caused confusion in the box for the winner (borderline foul but still..) and used his ability and hold up play very well.

It amazes me that some guys on here only look at certain aspects of a players game to draw their conclusions on how well a player is performing. Falcao today was probably the best that we've seen him yet, but because he received no service as a lone front man and was clearly instructed by LVG to come deep and look to play in other player who perhaps have more pace (Which he did very well) then he obviously had a shocker, bollocks!

I feel for Falcao, he returned from a serious injury, missed the world cup, had zero pre-season, came to us on loan while we were in transition for a second season adopting to a new manager and new coaching staff, new style of play, new team mates, new country, new tempo of play. all of this on no pre season and recovering from the pain of missing the world cup and he was expected to score 300 goals a season and play like Georgie mardona pelemessialdo.
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Except that no one is saying he had a shocker. Most are actually saying he did better then normal. Which in itself tells you everything you need to know, as he was decent at absolute best today. You talk about him tracking back, playing two good passes (passes that I'd expect any PL standard player to make quite frankly) and holding the ball up. Well if thats good enough for a player thats costing us £250k p/w and possibly £43 million in the Summer, then you have incredibly low standards.

The amount of excuses this lad gets because he's a fancy name, is quite frankly bordering on cult like status. And fwiw, he did have a pre-season with Monaco, so that excuse doesn't wash. Neither does the new club/country/teammates/style etc etc because that applies to every signing any club make, unless you expect all new signings to play like they've never seen a football in their life before?
 
Sam said:
Except that no one is saying he had a shocker. Most are actually saying he did better then normal. Which in itself tells you everything you need to know, as he was decent at absolute best today. You talk about him tracking back, playing two good passes (passes that I'd expect any PL standard player to make quite frankly) and holding the ball up. Well if thats good enough for a player thats costing us £250k p/w and possibly £43 million in the Summer, then you have incredibly low standards.

The amount of excuses this lad gets because he's a fancy name, is quite frankly bordering on cult like status. And fwiw, he did have a pre-season with Monaco, so that excuse doesn't wash. Neither does the new club/country/teammates/style etc etc because that applies to every signing any club make, unless you expect all new signings to play like they've never seen a football in their life before?
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Falcaos massive pre-season:

Valencia - 02/08/14 -on as a sub 70th minute.
Arsenal - 03-08-14 - off as a sub 56th minute.
Lorient (ligue1) - 10-08-14 - on as a sub 59th minute.
Bourdeaux (ligue1) -17-08-14 - on as a sub 59th minute.
Fc Nantes (ligue1) - 24-08-14 - off as a sub 69 minutes)

So since he did his cruciates in January, Falcao had played a massive total of 185 minutes of football prior to signing for us, you're right that is one hell of a pre season he's had there. plus adopting to a new culture, style, manager, team mates, league, language, expectations which are blinded by a huge proportion of Uniteds spoilt following. To dismiss these thing as nothing is either naive or stupid, i'll let you decide which.
 
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Rolandofgilead said:
Sigh.

I take it you missed the points in the game where he tracked back to good use, set our players in behind (Young and Herrera in quick succession) caused confusion in the box for the winner (borderline foul but still..) and used his ability and hold up play very well.

It amazes me that some guys on here only look at certain aspects of a players game to draw their conclusions on how well a player is performing. Falcao today was probably the best that we've seen him yet, but because he received no service as a lone front man and was clearly instructed by LVG to come deep and look to play in other player who perhaps have more pace (Which he did very well) then he obviously had a shocker, bollocks!

I feel for Falcao, he returned from a serious injury, missed the world cup, had zero pre-season, came to us on loan while we were in transition for a second season adopting to a new manager and new coaching staff, new style of play, new team mates, new country, new tempo of play. all of this on no pre season and recovering from the pain of missing the world cup and he was expected to score 300 goals a season and play like Georgie mardona pelemessialdo.
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We need to sign up Georgiemardona pelemessialdo he sounds like an amazing player.
 
ffs, how is this thread open? This guy is done. He looks slow and lost. It's like a hot potato that nobody wants to be left holding at his wages.
 
This (Falcao situation) is where I think football is missing a trick.

Take your pick of any player in the world right now. Doesn't matter who. Just one player you would love United to get hold of for a astronomical transfer fee.

Yes I accept Bale would be nicer to have to Bebe but there's no guarantee.

'Option to by' transfers struck a chord with me back when 'Bosman' came to the fore and 'could' if done correctly make much more sense now a player's wages are more relevant to both the buying and selling club than the transfer fee.
 
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Changed my mind on him...

It's very hard to score goals when no will feed you passes, when you makes runs....Especially hard when they make sidewards passes the whole time.

Not his fault he's not scoring....He's either on the bench, or being fed by as shit scared 10 men, who pass the ball sideways
 
RORY65 said:
He did better than usual but that's partially because standards have slipped to the stage where it's an improvement if he can run 15 yards at any sort of speed without falling over. We were largely terrible in the second half which explains why according to the BBC he touched the ball 4 times in his first 30 minutes, in fairness he did play 2 good passes late on when Palace were committing players forward and leaving more gaps.

It will still be utter fecking insanity if he we keep him next season, surely Mendes doesn't have that much control over the club.
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I remember Andy Cole having that same problem until a light bulb switched on halfway through his first season season. I am sure we all though we over-paid or he wouldn't hack the brighter lights of OT.
 
How he has any people wanting him to return next year is beyond me. He did absolutely nothing today and it's being described as decent? Really? Someone on his wages?

He has one shot on target since January. It's May. Wake the feck up.
 
Why we had persisted with subbing him in the 2nd half when clearly he had always been ineffective, this I will never understand
 
.Rossi said:
Changed my mind on him...

It's very hard to score goals when no will feed you passes, when you makes runs....Especially hard when they make sidewards passes the whole time.

Not his fault he's not scoring....He's either on the bench, or being fed by as shit scared 10 men, who pass the ball sideways
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Totally agree. Get a couple of creative midfielders with an eye for short progressive passes and through balls and we will see a different Falcao
 
.Rossi said:
Changed my mind on him...

It's very hard to score goals when no will feed you passes, when you makes runs....Especially hard when they make sidewards passes the whole time.

Not his fault he's not scoring....He's either on the bench, or being fed by as shit scared 10 men, who pass the ball sideways
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I feel the same, when his agent was spouting out about how he would have scored a shed load of goals under SAF i cringed but with the system we play it requires a target man to sacrifice himself to make space for players running from deep.

If we had one of those deeper players to feed him im sure it'd work for him
 
markhrad said:
Totally agree. Get a couple of creative midfielders with an eye for short progressive passes and through balls and we will see a different Falcao
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So you want us to either buy certain types of players OR change our system, just so that Falcao, may (or may not) score?
I can understand us changing our players or system for Aguero, Ronaldo, Messi, Robben or even Bale....but Falcao?
You'd have to be crazy.

And if its true that he has only 1 shot on target since January, then that stat in itself is pretty damning.
Sometimes players dont do well in certain teams and this may be the case with Falcao. Its better for his own career that he move to a team which suits him better. Perhaps he should go back to A.Madrid - he previously did very well, there?
I think Falcao needs to make the decision himself, because right now, his name is strongly becoming synonymous with the word, "shit".
 
Had a decent game yesterday but people seem to have forgotten he's missed loads of chances this season. No guarantee he would finish those chances even if we did create anything.
 
sunama said:
So you want us to either buy certain types of players OR change our system, just so that Falcao, may (or may not) score?
I can understand us changing our players or system for Aguero, Ronaldo, Messi, Robben or even Bale....but Falcao?
You'd have to be crazy.

And if its true that he has only 1 shot on target since January, then that stat in itself is pretty damning.
Sometimes players dont do well in certain teams and this may be the case with Falcao. Its better for his own career that he move to a team which suits him better. Perhaps he should go back to A.Madrid - he previously did very well, there?
I think Falcao needs to make the decision himself, because right now, his name is strongly becoming synonymous with the word, "shit".
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I would have agreed with you if it were only Falcao, but our lack of creative midfielders has also affected RVP and even Rooney when he played up front.
Three proven goalscorers could not all have become "shit" in the same season. There must be some other mitigating factor.
 
.Rossi said:
Changed my mind on him...

It's very hard to score goals when no will feed you passes, when you makes runs....Especially hard when they make sidewards passes the whole time.

Not his fault he's not scoring....He's either on the bench, or being fed by as shit scared 10 men, who pass the ball sideways
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Can't beat his man for pace, nor has the skills to create space for himself. Is a pale shadow of the player he once was for a quarter of a mill a week (or whatever he's on) he should be doing far better. You go on like he's feeding on scraps at Burnley, the system may not suit him but he should still be doing far far better.
 
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