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sunama said:
For those of you calling us drama queens - if/when he comes back and plays for 80+ minutes per game, then you can say, "I told you so".
Until then, us drama queens are correct. The guy is unable to play and this is a fact.
His knee has not recovered, yet. It may recover. It may not. Only time will tell.
Nobody, including Falcao/LvG, knows for sure if he will recover.

Realistically, if he does recover, it could be another 6 months before he is able to play a full 90 minute game for us.
It is clearly a very slow process of recovery.
At this point in time, I am (against) 60/40 (for).

For those suggesting that he will score 15-20 goals for us - can you explain how he is expected to get these, given that he is likely to miss the next 2 games, at least. This leaves only 25 games and remember, he cant play 80+ minutes.
Unless he starts scoring 1-2 goals per game, I cant see how he is going to reach these numbers.
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His current injury is completely unrelated to his Knee so 80% of your post is bulkshit based on your own assumptions.

As for 15-20 goals in 25 games. If he can get fit he's more than capable of hitting those numbers even only playing 80m per game so it's not beyond the realms of possibility.
 
simonhch said:
When I read some of the posts in this thread, I can only imagine the writers crying and stamping their feet as they type. Bunch of drama queens.
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^^ This.

And barely a week after I posted a in-depth explanation of his current situation. I truly think some of the people here only see what they want to...
 
Can't be bothered to check all the other threads but if the same drama queens are around, but going by their same logic regarding injuries we should not have bought Blind, Shaw, Rojo, Herrera let alone the players we already had who will/would have missed at least as many games as Falcao and we haven't even bought him yet
 
I was very excited by the Falcao loan, but have been really disappointed so far.

It's a predictable shame that posting in this thread has descended into one-up-manship and name calling.

Of course people are disappointed and concerned - we're a club with an absolutely horrendous injury record in recent times, and we've not even bought Falcao, we're paying high wages for a loan player to sit in the treatment room! In all honesty it's a comical situation.

He hasn't looked properly fit since he came here and I think it's perfectly fair to wonder whether this was a good or bad move.

You don't loan a player and pay them massive wages for them to sit in the treatment room. If it was known that he wasn't fit/recovered yet, we would've just loaned him from January onwards from Monaco when he was ready to play.
 
The different between people's feelings now and when we signed him is crazy. I was concerned when we got him and still am. He needs to get fit ASAP.
 
sunama said:
For those of you calling us drama queens - if/when he comes back and plays for 80+ minutes per game, then you can say, "I told you so".
Until then, us drama queens are correct. The guy is unable to play and this is a fact.
His knee has not recovered, yet. It may recover. It may not. Only time will tell.
Nobody, including Falcao/LvG, knows for sure if he will recover.

Realistically, if he does recover, it could be another 6 months before he is able to play a full 90 minute game for us.
It is clearly a very slow process of recovery.
At this point in time, I am (against) 60/40 (for).

For those suggesting that he will score 15-20 goals for us - can you explain how he is expected to get these, given that he is likely to miss the next 2 games, at least. This leaves only 25 games and remember, he cant play 80+ minutes.
Unless he starts scoring 1-2 goals per game, I cant see how he is going to reach these numbers.
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Stopped reading at this point. As Pexbo said his knee is not the issue at the minute so the rest of your post is pretty pointless really.
 
Oddly enough, I was never particularly excited about him coming unless it was on a Tevez-like rent a player type deal. He is coming off a serious injury and is already 29 in Feb, which means we may never see the same player that we saw during his Porto and Madrid days. If we're thinking of buying a top striker, we should be looking at players in the 22-25 age range, who are on the cusp of world class status, and who can play at a high level for a 3-5 years. In short, we need another 24 year old Ruud Van Nistelrooy.
 
Raoul said:
Oddly enough, I was never particularly excited about him coming unless it was on a Tevez-like rent a player type deal. He is coming off a serious injury and is already 29 in Feb, which means we may never see the same player that we saw during his Porto and Madrid days. If we're thinking of buying a top striker, we should be looking at players in the 22-25 age range, who are on the cusp of world class status, and who can play at a high level for a 3-5 years. In short, we need another 24 year old Ruud Van Nistelrooy.
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I remember the doubts when we signed RVN after his knee but yes I agree regarding age but we are verging on a desperate situation here with regards finishing out the top 4.
 
Raoul said:
Oddly enough, I was never particularly excited about him coming unless it was on a Tevez-like rent a player type deal. He is coming off a serious injury and is already 29 in Feb, which means we may never see the same player that we saw during his Porto and Madrid days. If we're thinking of buying a top striker, we should be looking at players in the 22-25 age range, who are on the cusp of world class status, and who can play at a high level for a 3-5 years. In short, we need another 24 year old Ruud Van Nistelrooy.
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You were in the minority then. Did you see how many times I got called jealous because I suggested that this Falcao was possibly not the world class one you see in the Youtube compilations? Do you think you will be in for a new striker next summer?
 
I'd suggest that the people talking about 'drama queens' and whatnot are burying their heads in the sand.

What is dramatic about questioning whether a player that probably wont play again until mid December, has managed just 3 starts, scored 1 goal, not lasted a 90 minutes, and is earning (allegedly) £300,000K p/w, might not have been the best choice of transfer? Plenty of people had doubt about his fitness and those doubts, so far, have been proven worryingly correct.
 
Sam said:
I'd suggest that the people talking about 'drama queens' and whatnot are burying their heads in the sand.

What is dramatic about questioning whether a player that probably wont play again until mid December, has managed just 3 starts, scored 1 goal, not lasted a 90 minutes, and is earning (allegedly) £300,000K p/w, might not have been the best choice of transfer? Plenty of people had doubt about his fitness and those doubts, so far, have been proven worryingly correct.
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The doubts were over his knee...it's not his knee.
 
fergieisold said:
The doubts were over his knee...it's not his knee.
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The fact he hasn't managed to finish a game are because of his knee. And the doubts were also over the fact that he didn't look that great at Monaco, certainly not at his Porto/Athletico level.
 
Sam said:
I'd suggest that the people talking about 'drama queens' and whatnot are burying their heads in the sand.

What is dramatic about questioning whether a player that probably wont play again until mid December, has managed just 3 starts, scored 1 goal, not lasted a 90 minutes, and is earning (allegedly) £300,000K p/w, might not have been the best choice of transfer? Plenty of people had doubt about his fitness and those doubts, so far, have been proven worryingly correct.
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There's something a tad dramatic about saying we'll work him up to full fitness, at which point he'll leave us and form a title winning partnership with Aguero next season at City.
 
Bubz27 said:
There's something a tad dramatic about saying we'll work him up to full fitness, at which point he'll leave us and form a title winning partnership with Aguero next season at City.
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Well yeah, that is a bit dramatic :lol:
 
Sam said:
Well yeah, that is a bit dramatic :lol:
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And that's what some posters are saying in this thread.
I don't think things are bad as some people are making out, but I sure as hell would prefer them to be different than they are.
 
@Sam see, more dramatics. He's Darren Anderton now.

Have a day off boys.
 
Bubz27 said:
@Sam see, more dramatics. He's Darren Anderton now.

Have a day off boys.
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Anderton used to be fit at the start of the season so falcao is worse

Seriously. Not sure why anyone is trying desperately to defend the situation. He is probably in the top 3 highest paid players in the squad. He had barely played and it will be mid season by the time he returns and I doubt anyone will be shocked if he picks up another knock then too.

If it wasn't the club I supported it would be a laughable situation. He was basically pushed onto the club at the final possible moment from out of the blue in a very odd situation. Now we are paying for a big name confined to the treatment room.
 
Randall Flagg said:
Anderton used to be fit at the start of the season so falcao is worse

Seriously. Not sure why anyone is trying desperately to defend the situation. He is probably in the top 3 highest paid players in the squad. He had barely played and it will be mid season by the time he returns and I doubt anyone will be shocked if he picks up another knock then too.

If it wasn't the club I supported it would be a laughable situation. He was basically pushed onto the club at the final possible moment from out of the blue in a very odd situation. Now we are paying for a big name confined to the treatment room.
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And I dont understand why people are desperately trying to write him off completely.
The only thing we can do is look at him at the end of the season. As I've said a few times, I'm confident he'll prove himself over the course of the season.
 
Persie isn't making it too hard for him to get back into the side, possibly next week.
 
Looks like Van Gaal is cooling any decision on a permanent move at the moment.
 
He'll probably replace RVP around the 60-70min mark against Hull then.
 
Great news. Probably too soon to start but hopefully he gets subbed on in the next couple of games and then gets a start at Southampton. Never properly got going yet because of the little niggles, but it's way too soon to write him off. When you're out for so long after an ACL injury, it's very rare that players come back without picking up other muscle injuries. Takes a while to get in the flow of things, but it has nothing to do with being injury prone. Just a matter of getting your body accustomed to playing high intensity football constantly.
 
Having got to the stage where I've almost accepted that RVP is done at the top level, I really really hope Falcao can step it up and get back to the level he showed in his Athletico days.

If not, I'd be tempted to let both go this Summer and have a proper reshuffle upfront.
 
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I don't want to get my hopes up, but the thought of him coming back and banging the goals in gives me the horn.
 
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