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I'm a massive fan of Falcao (historical Falcao, that is) and wanted this to work as much as anyone, but it just hasn't. No way we can afford to buy him in the summer (even if the price was 5m, as his wages could be better spent elsewhere).
very loveable bloke
From the interviews in spanish I have seen Falcao is a really polite person. He's really good with the fans, too. Really passionate about the sport and representing his country. He cried when he gave an interview after it was announced he was sold to Monaco.
Couldn't this be said about almost all high profile players though?
Then we don't need a striker like him, it's not like we are going to improve our football ten fold within a year or so. Yes, we might start playing with more cohesion and fluidity but ultimately it will take us 2-3 years at least before we end up with a system that supports forwards with multiple perfect passes a game. Right now we need a game changer up front, someone who creates something out of nothing. The likes of Aguero, Suarez, Henry don't or didn't need a thousand perfect passes for a ready made tap in to score goals, they went out there and created opportunities for themselves which is what we need from our forwards at the minute. Falcao hasn't even been close to doing that.
At least 2-3 years? This makes BR a magician at Liverpool. I also don't think this crap football is going to be tolerated that long.
I think it's going to be a very long term project here before anything respectable can be achieved unfortunately. We're 7 months into van Gaal's tenure and the improvement in the quality of football just isn't there, he's taking a pragmatic approach that he took at Netherlands during the World Cup and putting results above style. I think he might eventually have us playing better brand of football but it ultimately won't be until we hire Guardiola (which will happen around 2018 IMO) that we start being properly good on the eye and support our forward line with plenty of service.
You have it all planned out. Who is going to be our coach after Pep?
I don't actually think Falcao's wrecked, I just think he's a one dimensional striker approaching 30 (or over it, depending on what you believe...) who's lost a yard of pace and has turned up to the wrong league at the wrong time of his career.
Don't know, the timing of this is just too perfect. Van Gaal has a three years contract which runs out exactly when Pep's deal with Bayern comes to a close (provided he uses that one-year extension option he has in his deal) and it would be the third time Pep manages a team that was previously managed by van Gaal not that long before and largely founded on van Gaal's 'philosophy'. I don't really see a better scenario than giving Pep a go after van Gaal is done with his job here (unless we struggle massively and van Gaal gets the boot before his contract expires).
I've heard a few of his interviews, especially some of the ones after he joined us - he seems very religious and down to earth, and also only had really good things to say about the club.
Falcao might be that player. I've said it before, in years gone by a new player came to the club from a different country and league, people would say it takes you a season for you and your family to settle in so many ways. This means your not going to necessarily see the best in a player in his first season and it doesn't matter what you paid or paying him, it takes time. You could argue that's the same for LVG who I think underestimated the difficulties in English football.
I kinds agree but he hasn't got time he's got a one season loan to impress. Time is running out
That's awesome, I didn't realise he did an anomalous amount of charity work and that's what people were referring to.
If he weren't missing sitters you'd have a point. He's had plenty of chances here and he's missed most of them.
I think this is actually the most telling attribute. Forget his awful first touch and his lack of pace, he looks so timid in the air and afraid to tussle physically with defenders. He also seems to have lost a spring in his step - quite literally. Real signs of a steeply declining player.
He isn’t the scapegoat he just isn’t very good and shouldn’t be starting games based on his performances and fact he seems to be getting worse rather than improving. You make the point about service and of course any striker is going to have more opportunities with better service but I fail to see how that explains his lack of movement, mobility, pace, why he gets knocked off the ball too often and why he can’t control the ball.
I'm more concerned by where his first touch is.
Glad you worded it as you did - yes yours is an awful post - it is very difficult to score without the ball, perhaps you should read some of the other posts of mine and other posters but whch you choose to ignore
If Fellaini is a mop then current Falcao is a walking sack of shit. Is it LVG or Fellaini's fault that Falcao has absolutely no first touch? The ball always bounces off him so he has to chase it. And don't call him world class striker because he's far from one this season, he could've been one in his Atletico days but that was what, 3 years ago?
Sorry disagree. Not had plenty cause we haven't created that many. Everything at Man Utd is always magnified. How many chances are Chelsea, City, Tottenham creating per game? What's the quality of our passing and crossing is shocking so where are all these chances coming from. Are people really expecting him to score a goal every couple of chances? Strikers miss more than they score. Yes there have been some high profile misses but thats the same for all strikers.
Uhm, that's what you'd normally expect from your striker? Especially if you pay him above 200(probably above 250 but whatever) thousand quid per week and buying him will cost you around bloody 50 mln quid?
