I've noticed this as well.
He was never that high up for me. Fantastic goal scoring record in the reserves league, but never really impressed on his loans. Saying that he fell off is like saying how far Macheda has fallen off after that goal. Edit: should also mention that injuries also played some part in his trajectory
We allegedly paid him £50k per week for four years that’s more than £10m!!!
If that is true that is mental, average players (or anyone average in any industry) should be making nowhere near that kind of money. It just shows you that there is a LOT of luck involved in this game.
It's not true though, I'd bet my left bollock on it.
He could easily have a career like Josh King. I think there's every reason to be hopeful. There's definitely potential there.
On the day he signed, there were dozens of Aberdeen fans on Twitter delighted to have gotten him. I didn’t see any negative or ambivalent comments.
It is the most important thing in football, if you don't have the attitude to meet the standards or demands required your talent means nothing. I was excited to see wilson get into the team, way better than Rashord, I cannot comment on his mentality for certain but I did not hear too much negativity about that aspect of his game like we all did with morrison for example but the injuries defo fecked him up, still he is involved in the game and whatever the reason he did not fulfill his potential it is a shame, he was a super talent, absolute goal machine, lightning quick and super composed. It just does not happen sometimes, injuries, changes of manager with different ideas and perhaps his mentality, I think there were some mentions from coaching staff that there was more effort required, in this day and age of super rich teams, total focus and commitment from academy players is required to get into squads where clubs can afford to buy ready made.
It's a bit harsh to put it all down to attitude/what's in heads.
If that is the case, how do you explain the massive improvement of Luke Shaw and Victor Lindelof last season? How do you explain Scott McTominay knuckling down and working his arse off to get better without any of those outside factors? Shaw and Lindelof are both on 100k a week plus, McTominay is on 30k, still a very rich young man himself.
That's partly the issue, most of the players being youngsters who tend to drift away sometimes, do silly things, lose their focus. That is when the club and it's approach towards players comes into the picture. A club like United, having owners like the Glazers are completely dependent on earning their own revenue through sponsorship deals, Brand promotions etc. Then, there is the case of individual player image rights, sponsorship deals and promotion. Players are attending, promoting these events for the umpteenth time, and some of them get into their heads about increasing their own brand values and all, often losing focus on football. Under a less commercialized club, with a proper DOF, head coaches they might still be able to keep their heads on football. But certainly not at the current United.
No, way back I felt Wilson wasn’t on the same page. I was also comparing three players who were not quite capable of stepping over the line but with all the talents.
I found reading through that thread a treat... can't believe I'm feeling nostalgic about van Gaal's reign.
Pretty much in line with what I remember of himHe was praised for every game till the Liverpool game and then was praised after game against QPR and Cambridge.I found reading through that thread a treat... can't believe I'm feeling nostalgic about van Gaal's reign.
Just as a matter of interest, the only two games I can see him being praised was when he came on for 15 minutes against Arsenal (and even then it's more people preferring him to a past it RvP)... and the other was against Cambridge
Would never have imagined he would end up playing league 2. You can never be sure someone is a United player, but I couldn't have imagined he would be lower than bottom half prem/championship player.
Falcao could barely stand on two legs at the time.
6 months on, no-one is worried about losing him. Didn't get as much chances with us as we expected but Cosgrove nailed down the starting spot and I assume Wilson wasn't impressing in training. Talent wise he's streets ahead of Cosgrove too.
Warren Joyce said mentality a few years ago: https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...ball-news/man-utd-news-joyce-januzaj-12521368
That happened? Was the period where I found a cure for insomnia so I probably slept through it.
Oh come on. He is already downgraded to league 2. What else do you want from him? What has falcao been up to of late? He is still making tons of money not scoring goals.
He seemed to lose interest in the game once he signed that contract with us.
Yes
Injuries completely took away his pace which was his biggest attribute. Take speed away from almost any fast player and they’ll be fecked.
And rightfully so. Falcao was complete shit.
