Radamel Falcao Zarate

[BlueMoonz1977]

Will be interesting to see what happens cos if rumours are to be true, then chelski are going to again be spending a large amount of money.

 

[Latics Fan SJK]

Ballague just said that Falcao to Chelsea is a done deal.

He said last week that Real was his likely destination?...........I think he blows with the wind on his info instead of having a solid source.

On this occasion he's not far off, I'm not saying it's done but word is Chelsea are very close to getting him, they've been on it for weeks.

You reckon Torres could be on his way back to Atletico as part of the deal, perhaps?

Having said that, given Atletico's financial situation, I think they'd rather have a straight £40m that £25m and Torres.

 

[avoidconfusion]

I don't think Ballague has EVER gotten ANYTHING right... why this guy is still asked about transfer rumours is beyond me.

 

[CityFan94]

Falcao is the best striker in the world.

However, I don't want him here. I don't think how Falcao and Aguero could playin the same team.

Aguero is at his best in the number 9 role (something I didn't think before he signed) we have seen that in the last 8 months and it's why his best partnership is with Tevez.

Falcao plays a similar role which would mean one would have to drop deep. Neither would suit this role. And you could hardly rotate players on the level of Falcao and Aguero, that's ridiculous, that's fantasy football stuff.

Amazing player, but we already have Aguero for a world class number 9 striker.

 

[Matt the Giant]

Falcao is the best striker in the world.

However, I don't want him here. I don't think how Falcao and Aguero could playin the same team.

Aguero is at his best in the number 9 role (something I didn't think before he signed) we have seen that in the last 8 months and it's why his best partnership is with Tevez.

Falcao plays a similar role which would mean one would have to drop deep. Neither would suit this role. And you could hardly rotate players on the level of Falcao and Aguero, that's ridiculous, that's fantasy football stuff.

Amazing player, but we already have Aguero for a world class number 9 striker.

I agree with this. I don't think Falcao in of our interest as of now. If we sold both Edin and Mario, maybe then things would change.

Falcao is a poacher, extremely clinical in his finishing and would expect to start every game if fit. And he would cost a fortune in both t-fee and wages.
Maybe it would be better then to go for someone like Villa, who already has his good mate Silva here with is, who also is a very clinical striker, who would cost maybe a fourth of Falcao's fee and probably less in wages, and would probably accept reasonable rotation.

I am a huge admirer of Falcao, but equally of Villa. I'm sure he has the mentality and skill to make it here. And so what if he only has two, three years left at top level? Much can be won in those years.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Agree with both of the last two posts. Emotionally I'd love to see him here, especially if it meant Chelsea not getting him. But rationally it makes no sense, unless we sold Aguero which I don't think we should do.

Ironically we can pretty much forget signing any players like Falcao if the cretins running the league get their way with proposed new financial restraints. Gill and his henchmen clearly have a vested interest but the monobrow knuckle dragging Chairmen of other clubs are too dense to realise what's going on.

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

Ballague just said that Falcao to Chelsea is a done deal.

When did he say that? Just watched Revista De la liga and he said that a Spanish Tv show announced Falcao was joining Chelsea but neither club has confirmed it.
If we can get rid of Dzeko and Balotelli we have a great chance of signing this guy. Atletico wont want to sell to there greatest rivals, PSG although probably the best financially, have a great project and still in the CL they are not playing in the most attractive league while Chelsea formation only allows them to play one striker where they already have a 50 million pound player in and Abramovic seems to love him.

 

[Tarzan41]

Ballague just said that Falcao to Chelsea is a done deal.

When did he say that? Just watched Revista De la liga and he said that a Spanish Tv show announced Falcao was joining Chelsea but neither club has confirmed it.
If we can get rid of Dzeko and Balotelli we have a great chance of signing this guy. Atletico wont want to sell to there greatest rivals, PSG although probably the best financially, have a great project and still in the CL they are not playing in the most attractive league while Chelsea formation only allows them to play one striker where they already have a 50 million pound player in and Abramovic seems to love him.

This is right. He never said Falcao to Chelsea was a done deal.

 

[MSP]

Daily Star back page says Falcao, Fellaini, and Moutinho to Chelsea in January. Fookin' hell, thank god it's the least reliable paper of the lot is all I can say.

They would be best side by a country mile with those 3

 

[NipHolmes]

Nothing will be signed till summer imho.

Real will still be lurking if Ronaldo is on his way out, Chelsea keeping tabs on Higuain if they do go for him. Will cause some crap buying from Athletico but I can defo see it happening.

Chelsea could certainly get him but one worry would surely be Torres, if he struggle with Drogba he's fucked with Falcao. No way would Chelsea sell him becuase they'd have just a single striker being as Sturridge is going to Liverpool. They'd have to keep him but would it work, the guy would be destroyed and why else bring in Benitez? He surely has plans for Torres or else he wouldn't have kept him and sack RDM for Benitez. I think Roman want's to be proven right after the Schevchenko debacle. I wouldn't be shocked if went for Suarez.

Conjecture and collection of punt there, I merely post that I cannot see this happening in Jan .

 

[CityFan94]

Real Madrid hasn't been mentioned much here.

I don't think they have a world class centre forward. Benzema and Higuain are good, but Falcao is on another level.

People say Athletico would never sell to Real Madrid, but if Real Madrid were to match the buy-out clause, is there anything Athletico can do to stop it?

Shades of Luis Figo from Barca to Real Madrid.

 

[NipHolmes]

Real Madrid hasn't been mentioned much here.

I don't think they have a world class centre forward. Benzema and Higuain are good, but Falcao is on another level.

People say Athletico would never sell to Real Madrid, but if Real Madrid were to match the buy-out clause, is there anything Athletico can do to stop it?

Shades of Luis Figo from Barca to Real Madrid.

Benzema is close to being world class imo. Plays great on the left aswell as lone striker. Clinical too.

Higuain isnt getting the game time and has looked around in the past apparently. Not happy with Mourinho and open to 'the right move'. He'd be easily attainable for Chelsea and would fit them. That fee could help fund Falcao so its a no brainer for Real.

If Real did get Falcao I see a chain of deals going through.

 

[adammck]

Falcao would be so immense with Aguero upfront... Tevez on rotation.

 

[alky313]

I'd love to see:


--------------DDR--------------
Silva-----------------------Yaya
--------------Tevez-------------
--------Aguero---Falcao-------

But sadly. That'll never happen. And we'd be open as hell.

 

[Tevez City]

I'd love to see:


--------------DDR--------------
Silva-----------------------Yaya
--------------Tevez-------------
--------Aguero---Falcao-------

But sadly. That'll never happen. And we'd be open as hell.

How about ?



--------------Barry/Milner--------------
Silva-----------------------Yaya
--------------Tevez-------------
--------Aguero---Dzeko-------

Not too bad imo.

 

[alky313]

I'd love to see:


--------------DDR--------------
Silva-----------------------Yaya
--------------Tevez-------------
--------Aguero---Falcao-------

But sadly. That'll never happen. And we'd be open as hell.

How about ?



--------------Barry/Milner--------------
Silva-----------------------Yaya
--------------Tevez-------------
--------Aguero---Dzeko-------

Not too bad imo.

Not bad. But the DM position needs to be a bit more rangier than what we have. Not even Xabi Alonso can play alone in the way a DDR or dare I say it Busquets can. Barry for all of his ability to keep play ticking over isn't a regista. He's limited to mid range passing. Diamond midfielder or playing with the withdrawn forward requires proper spacing and switching of play. For some reason we don't have a player at city bar Yaya who is willing to pass it longer than 25 yards.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Could someone cut and paste this Duncan Castles interview with Falcao please ?

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One of those, not sure which.

Thanks

 

[jimharri]

Could someone cut and paste this Duncan Castles interview with Falcao please ?

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One of those, not sure which.

Thanks

The first link;
MANCHESTER CITY are planning a radical restructure of a player recruitment policy that has seen the club's wage bill rise above £200million, threatening its ability to comply with UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations. F

Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain, City’s recently appointed chief executive and director of football, want to cut the number of players on the books. City currently have in excess of 50 professionals and the former Barcelona executives calculate that more than half of them need to be moved on.“They are amazed how many players City have under contract who are not capable of playing for the first team,” a source said.

After this year’s Champions League exit, Soriano and Begiristain want to abandon City’s transfer strategy of recruiting the world’s best player in a given position and using Abu Dhabi’s financial largesse to outbid their rivals.

Instead, they envisage a squad composed of five or six elite individuals backed up by a group of well-scouted “mid-tier” footballers capable of developing into world-class performers. The model for that is Yaya Toure, whom they attracted to Barcelona from French football in 2007. He is now among City’s most influential players.

And the second;
COMING any time soon to a Premier League stadium near you: a 260kg Bengal tiger and 73kg of goalkeeper-eating Colombian? Spanish sports papers enjoy reprinting images of an anxious-looking Radamel Falcao bedecked in Atletico Madrid’s red and white stripes standing behind a rather larger banded predator. El Tigre and the beast who gave him a nickname.

The moniker arrived soon after Falcao left his home country as a precocious, focused 14-year-old to join Argentina’s River Plate. A two-goal performance in a youth fixture secured the sponsor’s man-of-the-match award, the Tigre Esso, and a mischievous teammate began the teasing. “Watch out, we’ve got a tiger on the pitch.” Twelve years later Atletico fans taunt visitors to their Vicente Calderon lair with doctored road signs: a tiger’s head in a red warning triangle. “On match days” reads the text below.

The moment Falcao walks into a business hotel near his house in Madrid’s southeast suburbs, the easy athleticism is obvious. At a metre and 77 centimetres he does not have the stature of many modern strikers, yet there is a precise muscularity that his James Dean T-shirt and stressed denim cannot mask; a balance to his gait that suggests the agility and acceleration to leave defenders chasing shadows.

The previous night he scored his 17th goal of a La Liga season not yet half-run. The strike gave Atletico a lead at Barcelona they failed to maintain. While Atletico still stand an unexpected second in the table, we are warned that this tiger did not wake in the best of moods.

His sense of humour, fortunately, remains intact. Discussion of his nickname stretches strong Latin features into a jocular grin. “I like it,” he says. “And it’s better to be The Tiger than The Little Kitten.”

 

[Ray78]

I don't see Falcao signing for Real Madrid. Us or Chelsea in the Summer will be the likely destination.

 

[Goats left knee]

Some will see this as more significant news than others... But I can tell you that falcao is taking English lessons. 100%