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Sorry. Loved the face based retort, though. One of my personal favorites.
If Mendes really has something to do with this, he should tell van Gaal to stop playing him. At this rate no European top league team will take him at the end of the season.
I hope he succeeds here. Slim chance, but there is still a chance.
How did you interpret his gesture when he was subbed yesterday? Was he just making sure, or was he actually trying to say 'Are you seriously substituting me?' If it's the latter, that's hilarious.
The latter, I think. Surely he can see the board with '9' on it?
van Gaal should've gotten off the bench and said 'Yes...You!!'
I think he was making sure cause when the board was up I thought it said number 8 and was like you got wrong number up mate.
How can he be so crap? He used to be so good 
There is a chance, zero chance. The guy is getting worse week by week. Has to go.
Pretty sure it was the latter
It was also Ashley Young who was coming on, so there's a good chance that he might have been confused. Somebody posted a previous clip from his Monaco days where he did something similar, so there's that.
At one point I thought, "Maybe he needs glasses? THAT'S what's wrong."
I'm gutted for him and I'm gutted for Law who seems to have alot of faith in him.
Its taken us 12 years to replace forlan. He is now back, with dark hair.
It's becoming a bit worrying that LVG persists in starting him regardless, I could understand it if he was 'playing him into form' but he's getting worse, that said, I wonder how he would have fared if Young came on for Fellaini and he had the service that Fellaini had.
This pretty sums up how I feel about Falcao right now.
Just substitute the shoes for a World Class Striker.
Just substitute the shoes for a World Class Striker.
There is still the slightest of chances he isn't over that knee injury he suffered and missing the whole summer with it wouldn't have helped. In all likeliness he's never going to recover and become the player he once was unfortunately.
You're right, there is a chance. It's unlikely but could still happen.
What I would say though, is that he doesn't deserve starts at this point, and should go back to 20 minute cameos against tired defences.
I really think this is best for him, for Mendes (Falcao will look better in this role), and most importantly for us.
I think it's ingenious to claim that LvG's hands are tied because of demands from Mendes and Woodward. This isn't some random no mark Tim Sherwood we are talking about here (with all due respect to him, he's an young and upcoming manager). It's Louis Van Gaal who goes and fights with Bayern's board and is known to be a big autocrat/dictator etc.
Any manager worth his salt would walk out on the job if there's an agent demanding to play his client at the expense of the team. It's an insult to our club if we think our board will let this happen to our manager being at the mercy of an agent (even if he's a super agent like Mendes). We are not Vitesse Arnhem for god's sake, we are Manchester United.
If LvG plays Falcao, it could be very well because he's a stubborn so and so, or he feels that he's a part of next year's plans and the results have been good to him to continue his experiments. Anyone who thinks that Falcao is being played because DDG/Mendes/Woodward has their heads so firmly up their own pessimistic arses they could see Noodlehair from where they are at.
Any manager worth his salt would walk out on the job if there's an agent demanding to play his client at the expense of the team. It's an insult to our club if we think our board will let this happen to our manager being at the mercy of an agent (even if he's a super agent like Mendes). We are not Vitesse Arnhem for god's sake, we are Manchester United.
If LvG plays Falcao, it could be very well because he's a stubborn so and so, or he feels that he's a part of next year's plans and the results have been good to him to continue his experiments. Anyone who thinks that Falcao is being played because DDG/Mendes/Woodward has their heads so firmly up their own pessimistic arses they could see Noodlehair from where they are at.
All true, but watching Mendes pull an immediate media tantrum when Falcao was dropped for 1 match certainly suggests that LvG is under pressure to play Falcao.
Likewise, seeing a manager so famed for his 'balance' putting out a team with two number 9s tripping over each other and another striker in midfield is, to say the least, oddly uncharacteristic for Van Gaal's entire career.
I would at least like to think that while the agents would try to do their best to put pressure on the manager, LvG has the balls to play his team and our board will back our manager to the fullest.
Likewise, so would I.
I suppose in the coming games we'll see. Falcao should still be given minutes where possible, but he shouldn't be starting matches in this form.
I'd take Cavani over signing Falcao permanently. Ideally, neither happens.
Cavani is really not that great
Yeah, Falcao isn't too. Think Cavani would offer us more though. But as I said, I hope we don't sign anyone and just give Wilson space to grow.
Given how poor he has been here - and he has been poor - Monaco must be starting to think they are going to have a big dilemma on their hands come the end of the season. Unless he starts banging in the in over the next 3 months (highly unlikely given I think his starts and game time will be less now) then no team is going to go near him on those wages. No team are going to part with anything upwards of 20m for him (and I think that is pretty fecking generous). Mendes is clearly worried hence the comments to the media of late.
Also, I read that people are saying we aren't playing to his strengths - what are we paying such hefty wages for? A one dimension striker? He has been garbage and it's no joke when I say Bebe has a better first touch and control.
Also, I read that people are saying we aren't playing to his strengths - what are we paying such hefty wages for? A one dimension striker? He has been garbage and it's no joke when I say Bebe has a better first touch and control.
Ivanovic scores more than him.
We need to sign a striker though
I really don't see what he did last night that was so bad. He didn't have any chances and I can't think of many occasions he gave it away or misplaced his pass. I assume it is more to do with his replacement having such a positive impact rather than how poor Falcao was. His performances get really exaggerated.
I remember RVP against Hull earlier this season when he gave the ball away maybe 10 times and couldn't put a foot right until he smashed that goal in just before going off and he didn't get nearly as much stick. Or his 9 touches or whatever it was against Arsenal.
I remember RVP against Hull earlier this season when he gave the ball away maybe 10 times and couldn't put a foot right until he smashed that goal in just before going off and he didn't get nearly as much stick. Or his 9 touches or whatever it was against Arsenal.
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Not really, his touch has deserted him. He's positively getting worse game by game, to the extent I think Wilson now should start ahead of him.
Wilson has been equally as anonymous when he has started.
This would be the problem then, no blood getting into his brain.
I think the problem has been when both he and RVP have started together, neither have been able to get in the game.
At times its like we are playing with only 8 outfield players which of course is easy to defend against, and so we don't create chances for the two finishers playing up front. Contrast that with last night where Rooney played up front. He gets involved in the link up and hence we look more threatening. And yes, I know it was only Preston.
The way he has been playing I can't see United paying around £45m to sign him permanently. If fact I can't see any team willing to pay that much. If we don't decide to buy him out right is there an option to take him on another loan?
If you had to choose between Falcao and Fellaini tomorrow who would you choose?
Only an idiot would pick Falcao to be honest.
6 months of being in a utd shirt, 3 of which he wasn't fit or injured. New country, new culture, new league, new team mates, new manager, new formation, not having a run of games and we expect him to hit the ground running when by our own addmission the football we are playing is poor, slow and without creativity?
And people think he's not being used as a scapegoat....really? The worlds gone absolutely mad.
And people think he's not being used as a scapegoat....really? The worlds gone absolutely mad.
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I mean, it's not unfair to say he's been a major disappointment, regardless of such reasons you listed.
I would agree but there's just nothing to suggest he's going to turn it around. He just looks lost out there. Way off the pace. Unless the deal was indeed done last summer there's not a chance in hell of us signing him.
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