3 in 6 so far for Monaco this season, all in victories as well. Seems like he's found his post-injury level. Anyone watched him this season?
Radamel Falcao - Back at Monaco, 2016/17
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Wow, dont think he had that in 2 seasons in the Prem
Man, he was so good in those 2 Atletico seasons (11/12 and 12/13). I haven't watched him for Monaco this season but I doubt he's on the same level again as those 2 seasons.
He wasn't in his first spell at Monaco either, to be fair.
Its the French league ffs!!
More false dawns than a French and Saunders themed fancy dress party.
playing in a lesser team still scored 11 in 19 games then tore his acl
Shows the poor standard of the French league, not Falcao's prowess.
Or it could be the fact that Monaco actually plays him.
A lesser team in a poor league. He was close to 1:1 at Atletico.
United did.
To their detriment.
Only dropped long after it was clear he wasnt up to it.
Not really. He was clearly behind Rooney and Van Persie in the pecking order. Which baffles me cause he was probably the best striker in the world when we brought him here.
He very rarely ever played 90 minutes for us. Either he started and got an hour on the pitch or he came on with 10 minutes to go. It's easy to look at the numbers and say "Oh, he played 32 games for us and only scored 4 goals" but if you look at the minutes he played, it really wasn't that many.
I like to just forget that he ever played for Chelsea to be honest. That loan deal was such a waste of time for all parties involved. I think I've only ever seen him on the pitch for Chelsea about 4 times. He'll go down in history with the likes of Weah, Felipe Luis, Pato, Cuadrado, etc as another "cameo" Chelsea player.
You watched Falcao play for us right?
Monaco are very good this season. Even Crouch would score 3 in 6 for them.
Yeah. He was decent in the first half of the season and then we played against Cambridge United around January time and he didn't score which lead to the media and fans getting on his back about it. He had some bad moments but I still think he wasn't really given a fair shot. The system, Van Gaal, playing 3 strikers at once didn't help. And he was never an impact sub. He's more of a lone striker and United never had the faith in him to play him as such.
Monaco clearly do and thats why he's back scoring again.
Falcao was one of the worst strikers to ever play for us. He was Forlan without the occasional spectacular goals, sporadically impressive technique and overall enthusiasm. His time at Chelsea perfectly demonstrated the fact he wasn't good enough, as did his games for Colombia.
When Falcao signed for us i was so freaking excited but he was crap for us.
One of our greatest disappointing signings
One of our greatest disappointing signings
Falcao for us was initially very good. I think he rinsed Simpson (a la Rashford on Sagna in the city game this season) and put in a pin point cross for van Persie to head and I was so excited at what he could be.
But he was disappointing. Funnily enough it was his finishing that was the issue. Was missing sitters. His movement off the ball was good. I think it was the Newcastle home game on Boxing Day when we played Rooney as a DM as Fletcher as B2B. Falcao and RvP were upfront and mata put in a peach of a pass to falcao who passed it to Rooney who scored. That goal was possible because both the CBs were taken away from the middle by the strikers and Rooney made a Lampard esque run into that gap from the deep to score
But he was disappointing. Funnily enough it was his finishing that was the issue. Was missing sitters. His movement off the ball was good. I think it was the Newcastle home game on Boxing Day when we played Rooney as a DM as Fletcher as B2B. Falcao and RvP were upfront and mata put in a peach of a pass to falcao who passed it to Rooney who scored. That goal was possible because both the CBs were taken away from the middle by the strikers and Rooney made a Lampard esque run into that gap from the deep to score
What an absolute garbage man this joke of a footballer was for us.
Only memory of him is the Falcao-cam. If ir remember correctly, "If any young striker is watching right now, this is how you should play" were Martin Tyler's words. Hindsight is such a wonderful thing.
He was usually hooked off because he was very poor
And it took Van Gaal 3 months too many to admit that.
Falcao looked out of his depth when we played the Spurs u21. He couldn't control the ball and kept falling.
He was benched at both teams because he was that bad.Even Colombia stopped selecting him after a while.
lol at the guy who said we didn't play him enough.
Record number of slips on the ball in Premier League history id imagine, but damn I wanted it to work.
The day when he signed for United, I thought that we have signed a latino Ruud
The day when he signed for United, I thought that we have signed a latino Ruud
Ruud was awesome and one of my all time favourite United players but Falcao was even better pre injury (best 9 in the world). Age (his is questionable) and injury was against him at United but he should be viewed as a great player pre injury.
3 in 6 is hardly impressive, definitely not thread worthy.
It speaks to how bad he was/is that it is deemed to be, though.
I never claimed it was impressive. I said he's found his level again, after 2 seasons of looking woefully out of his depth.
It's just a thread to keep an eye on him really, see how he does.
He is slightly better than he was at Utd and Chelsea mainly because he gets to play a little more.
Is it also partly because he's their main man again? We had Rooney, Di Maria and Van Persie to shoehorn in as well.
I doubt playing minutes had anything to do with Falcao's horrendous performances at Utd. He was fresh from his injury and simply wasn't the same player anymore.
In fairness, being paid a quarter of a million a week to do the square root of feck all seems pretty sound life advice.
Colombia stopped selecting him due to lack of game time at those clubs. Nobody can honestly sit there and tell me that Chelsea and United played him every week and put their faith in him. That's an absolute lie.
United were more concerned with shoehorning Rooney into the team, so much that they actually played a 3-4-1-2 formation just to get him in there with Van Persie and Falcao. If we played a 4-2-3-1 with Di Maria and Nani on the wing with Mata behind Falcao, nobody can deny the quality in that side. I guess that was too risky for Van Gaal's "philosophy"
I remember watching Falcao at United and thinking "fecking hell, we're creating nothing for him". Thats probably cause we had Carrick, Fellaini and Rooney in CM along with Ashley Young. People leave out the important bits.
He occasionally did have something and proceeded to have a poor attempt. Snatching and miskicking his half chances
They were scraps. A lot of people seem to forget that.
I remember it quite clearly as I was desperate for him to start banging them in at United. We would create maybe 1 chance a game for him if he was lucky.
The Chelsea thing shouldn't have happened. He was never gonna get Costa out of the Starting 11 and he could have left us wondering if he just went back to Monaco that season instead. Now it's on his CV that he "failed" at 2 Premier League teams. Shame for him but his agent/advisors have to be up there with some of the worst I've seen. Convincing him to join newly promoted Monaco after being named in the FIFPro World XI... Unbelievable.
Come to think of it, what happened to Monaco? I thought around the time they splashed 90m on Falcao and James, they were gonna become the next big European force. It's like they just gave up on the entire thing and started using youngsters instead. Since that season, they've been bringing in "old" guys like Berbatov and Vagner Love.
Best 9 in the world my arse
At least it was just a loan. Imagine if we'd actually signed him.