I put the slight drop in Falcao's performances at Monaco down to lack of motivation. He never wanted to be there.
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He's talking about the 5-6 months after he moved from Atletico before the injury in January 2014.
Yep. And than followed by Rooney.
yeah as I said at Monaco and since the injury. He didnt look as sharp or strong as he did at his previous two clubs, but I wasnt sure if it was down to the quality of the league he was now in. Its worth noting even though I was lambasted for the words of warning I never expected him to be quite as bad as he was.
What's funny about all of this is that he actually started off quite well with us. You could see class in his first few performances even if he wasn't getting on the scoresheet. Then gradually his whole game fell apart.
You hadnt even been linked with him pre season, was during international break.
As for the excitement, I dont think ive ever known such a commotion on here.
Heres some from the eerly pages
To be fair theres a few words of warning in there, I dont think even we got that mad when we signed Torres though, but we did get quite excited!
Bloody hell My post
I remember writing it too with so much joy. Painful.I love that "one of the finest squads in world football" is followed by an expectation to 'challenge' for 3rd.
I'm quite please with my first post in the Falcao thread
This was in response to one of the muppets. Really it was directed towards them all
This was in response to one of the muppets. Really it was directed towards them all
But would you really want to do it any differently? Sure it didn't work out, but it was very exciting at the time.Jesus were a lot of us (very well including myself) off the mark
Oh well, better than being pessimistic about it I suppose!
My first post in this thread. Comes across a bit harsh as I genuinely wanted Falcao (and the rest of our players) to succeed. But didnt agree with the signing then, and obviously it hasnt worked out.
I was one of the first people to start jizzing over the possibility of Falcao coming here last night, when there was nothing but a few squabbling rumours! Wow what a difference 24 hours makes, we now have Radamel fecking Falcao in our squad!!
I guess we will 99.9% make this transfer permanent sometime over the season assuming nothing goes horribly wrong. Hopefully his goals will fire us back into the CL and maybe even title no21 if we can quickly make up lost ground.
I dunno why we haven't paid Monaco the £40million fee yet, I'm assuming that's down to them rather than us. I'm sure as soon as he's banging in the goals, we will sign him to a 4/5 year contract by activating that clause. Can't believe we've pretty much spent £200million on players this summer
Those are the kinds of % odds I lose bets on
As bad as he was for us I cant help but miss him. In a sport populated with Terrys Gerrards and Rooneys a gentleman really stands out.
Of course it could be worse!
Don't understand the Falcao being a gentleman thing. It was constantly in the paper him being upset about not playing, or his agent, or family.
I literally remember watching falcao youtube vids all night with a few mates when we signed him whilst taking the piss out of my scouse Liverpool mate
good times.
Those are the kinds of % odds I lose bets on
I was under the impression that the "loan" was in fact a transfer. That's how it was presented in the press at the time. I was all for him staying but, oh well.
FFsThose are the kinds of % odds I lose bets on
What does that even mean?
Are Mata, Herrera, de Gea, Smalling, Jones, Rafael, Valdes, Januzaj, Young, Blind, Rojo, Wilson, Carrick, Valencia, di Maria, Hernandez not 'gentlemen'?
And that's just our squad, I could do the same with every squad in the PL.
No offense to you, I know you mean well, but it's that kind of bizarrely over-sentimental claptrap that made this thread (and to an extent, this loan deal itself) so fecking unbearable.
People acting like the guy was some kind of samaritan who rocked up in Manchester and gave half of his £250,000 a week wages to poverty stricken locals or something.
He's a Mendes player who seems pleasant enough and tried his best and wasn't good enough - and he was paid obscenely for the honour.
He certainly shouldn't be vilified or spoken badly of, but at the same lets not pretend that Falcao gave us something that we haven't got elsewhere, or that he was some kind of love spreading guru that was heaven sent.
To a degree I agree with you, and I think we currently have one of the most likable and for lack of a better word gentlemanly squads in England. But we dont hear about them, we always get the affairs, the stamps, the assaults and the other misdemeanors of players force fed to us by a media geared to the lowest common denominator, so when genuinely likable guys rock up they stand out
I think that was against Leicester. Not sure. Cracking hit.Wasn't it in his first match he hit this outrageous volley?
He regressed badly during the season, he looked a lot sharper vs QPR, Leicester, Everton than he did for all remaining games.
Ah yeah, that was probably it. Really thought he'd explode on the scene after a few games. The injury he got in late November(?) really put him off his stride.
That was when he still had self confidence.
He was playing well/scoring during that Christmas game. Dropping him that time didn't make too much sense really.
During XMas time, he got starts in many games.
Put simply, he could not score the goals which he was brought in for. Ergo - he was fired.
If he had scored 20 league goals for us this year, I actually think we could've challenged for the league title, but alas, he scored 4 and the rest is history.
I think LVG was very patient with him - at R.Madrid, he'd probably have got lynched for scoring 4 goals in a season.
Good luck to him in his future, though. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on how he does next year.
Put simply, he could not score the goals which he was brought in for. Ergo - he was fired.
If he had scored 20 league goals for us this year, I actually think we could've challenged for the league title, but alas, he scored 4 and the rest is history.
I think LVG was very patient with him - at R.Madrid, he'd probably have got lynched for scoring 4 goals in a season.
Good luck to him in his future, though. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on how he does next year.
True, the standards at Real are so different, Bale supposedly has been poor, Ancelotti gets sacked immediately when he doesnt win a prize in a season (just behind a brilliant barca), and we celebrate a manager because we came 4th.
I wont ever forget his assist against Newcastle for Wayne.
Am sure it was 3-1 at the time too. If only that had gone in things might have worked out differently.
You hadnt even been linked with him pre season, was during international break.
As for the excitement, I dont think ive ever known such a commotion on here.
Heres some from the eerly pages
To be fair theres a few words of warning in there, I dont think even we got that mad when we signed Torres though, but we did get quite excited!
That's the problem when your club has got used to huge money signings constantly like Chelsea. You get all a bit too blasé about it.
Apart from a few real standout buys, like Rooney, Ferdinand, Berbatov and Van Persie, we've not really gone top names. Last season seemed to signal a distinct change, with Falcao and Di Maria.
Shame one was a colossal disaster, and one peaked as early as September!
You hadnt even been linked with him pre season, was during international break.
As for the excitement, I dont think ive ever known such a commotion on here.
Heres some from the eerly pages
To be fair theres a few words of warning in there, I dont think even we got that mad when we signed Torres though, but we did get quite excited!
I was genuinely thrilled when we signed Di Maria and Falcao. It was like 10 christmas's in one go
I put money on us to win the Prem (esp as we werent in the ECL), I was that happy
I remember feeling similarly elated when we signed Veron too, there's definitely a pattern here.................
In the paper today saying LVG is searching for a world class striker. Lets hope he finds someone I've never heard of ;-)
All the players messages to him etc makes me more sad now that he is gone
Let's have him back! We carried Anderson for so many years for being a nice guy afterall.
Let's have him back! We carried Anderson for so many years for being a nice guy afterall.
Yes, Leicester. Sometime you have to wonder if that incredible volley would´ve gone in the auld onion bag, if things would´ve been so different. Confidence is a funny thing.
Ya and his first goal. He went crazy!!
As much as his confidence got sapped as the season went on I think having injuries during a season where he needed to be injury free to even gave a chance to get to his best, was too much.
Looking through some of my old posts too and stumbled across this...
Looking through some of my old posts too and stumbled across this...
Behave!
What a let down though.
Behave!
What a let down though.
Sorry couldn't resist- Status