People are overreacting a bit.
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Best finisher in the whole world? Ermm.
Who is so far ahead of him that that's an outrageous claim?
His reputation and stats would suggest he is in that category.
It wasn't completely gutteral. There was a vague rationale behind it. Shaw is too young to be considered a flop. He's here for 5-6 years at the very very least and we'll get something out of him. Blind & Rojo are too low profile to seriously be considered flops, at least to the media. If they fail they'll just fade into the background as we buy better players. Di Maria is too good to be a flop, and a bit like Beckham has the ability to be useful just from his delivery regardless of how he actually performs. His stats will always be good. Plus we've got him at a great age. So it's between Herrera and Falcao, and whatever Herrera becomes, he's at least a player we needed, and have needed for a very long time. Falcao is the odd one out. His profile, his age, his technically unneeded position in the squad are all just perfect for a flop story.
I still dont think he will be though. At least not really. He's got too much quality to actually be poor, and I think he's been decent in every game he's played. But in terms of easy media narrative, anything but a Costa like start to the PL puts him in the sights.
Messi/Ronaldo the obvious, and Neymar is starting to get there, he scores a goal every match and a lot of them are well taken, also doubt he is a better finisher than Ibra/Aguero.
So, he's missed two games from 'a knock' in training... But what's his actual injury.
I mean these are massive games, to miss them both and not even make the bench he must be properly injured - with what?
I mean these are massive games, to miss them both and not even make the bench he must be properly injured - with what?
It's disappointing, because the game on Sunday is exactly the type of big, important game we signed him for, yet he's not available. Again. We haven't seen enough of him to make a judgement though, so we'll see.
Weirdly enough i wouldn't put Ronaldo in that category, like Robben they seem to need a "lot" of opportunities.
Yeah because he shoots from distance/unrealistic angles often, but if you give Ronaldo half a clear cut chance, he will get it in.
Is that a joke...Ronaldo needs about as many invites to score on the pitch as he does in bed!
What happened since the news he is fit for Sunday? Could someone fill me in.
I know, he is a great finisher, but for some reason and probably the one you mentioned, Ronaldo wasn't on my list of great finishers.
Are you for real? We talk about someone who has not played a single full 90-minute match for us so far. For me, it's unacceptable that he has not managed to rack full matches by now. Considering how THIS could be the biggest game of the season, what can be the nature of his injury so that he cannot take an injection to cope with pain?
A little off-topic and possibly over-ranting, but that Neanderthal named Phil Jones can go feck himself if he's involved anyhow in this.
Where does one start with that?
What can he do if he wasn't?
Aguero, Messi, and Costa and Ronaldo are currently better.
Let's be honest, to spend 50M on a 29yo he has to be at Messi/Ronaldo's level.
Not all injuries can be treated with painkilling injections. And even if it were possible, it might do him further damage which, given his already lengthy injury record, could be a risk too far.
That was how it seemed to me as well, but I guess I am going to need to see him given a run of starts to see we do plan on keeping him, as I can't see us dropping that kind of money on an option.
Really?!
He's been here for 6 matches! Put aside the first, in which he came off the bench as expected, and it's three starts and one sub appearance before getting injured for one match, which is about to become two matches.
In the three starts he scored one and assisted two.
How on earth can you call him injury prone or out of form based on that?
What is actually wrong with you people?
Am I missing something, is Falcao the first player ever to be injured or something? Do you expect him to chose which games he's injured for?
I just think it's odd that his actual injury isn't being stated. He's missed the two biggest matches of the season because of 'a knock'...
A knock that did what?
My god, its like bunch of hysterical women are posting here. Not to mention experts on injuries...
He's been here 6 games...
So what are you saying, club is hiding the 'actual injury' cause its a bad, bad one..?
Let me get this right, after 6 games you concluded he wont have a ridiculously good 2nd half of the season?
Not moaning but for the supposed wages were paying him, we arent getting a good deal so far, but obviously I really hope once hes fit, we will get best of him
I think it's only fair to look at Falcao before the injury. The handful of appearances after being out for 10 months isn't much to judge him on. And before then he was banging them in like the 4 mentioned. We brought him to the club as an elite finisher and just because he's missed some chances in a few sub appearances for us doesn't mean he's not an elite player
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I'm quite disappointed to not see a lot of him yet. Still think he'll be doing well for us.
Must have been some "knock." My BS detector is starting to ring.
I'm not saying he won't, but that it just looks unlikely at the moment. There's no hint of previous injuries having his impact on his performances, but he appears to be lacking confidence whenever he plays. Of course getting injured is unfortunate, but missing crunch games we needed him the most in, is just cruel. A goal or two in these games for him would have changed a lot of people's opinion about him. Again this could go either way I believe and I really wish he turns out to be excellent, but I wouldn't surprised if it didn't work out.
And for the record, I hate that culture of silence when the manager cannot explain why a player who is supposed to be one of our main assets (for the wages he gets) has to sit out of the 2 biggest games of the season by a country mile so far. It cannot be just 'a knock'; that's BS.
I just saw on reddit that the picture about him watching the El Classico in a Real shirt is fake. It was just some lookalike called Carvajal Andres.
http://instagram.com/carvajalandres24
Phew!
http://instagram.com/carvajalandres24
Phew!
I just saw on reddit that the picture about him watching the El Classico in a Real shirt is fake. It was just some lookalike called Carvajal Andres.
http://instagram.com/carvajalandres24
Phew!
I've really got no idea where this conspiracy theory is going... but I'm intrigued to find out!
This fella could get Falcao in all sorts of hot water if he pulled the same prank with a Liverpool or City kit.
Falcao has run off with the Illuminati?
That's why he's not available really, Mendes is trying to get Woodward to sign that Falcao lookalike but LvG has uncoded a series of clues that have revealed that RvP is, in fact, a descendant of Jesus...
People questioning how a knock can keep a player out for a week - did you just start watching football in September? Have you seriously never heard of a player taking a knock and missing games?
We have rooney, rvp and falcao and pay them 800,000 a week for a reason, one being injured isn't the end of the world
We have rooney, rvp and falcao and pay them 800,000 a week for a reason, one being injured isn't the end of the world
Two weeks, minimum.
Neanderthal is the word that comes to mind reading that alright.
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