20 Feb 2015 11:52:37
I am surprised by the result of yesterday's poll.
I personally would be on the side of Falcao does not need more time to adapt. Yes it is fairly physical, but he should still be making runs and finishing off chances. Footballs in England and goal nets in England are no different to those in Spain or France where he has excelled.
Yes, the physical side of things may be challenging. But when you are missing sitters, making poor decisions and not make good runs then I don't see how that is a sign of not having long enough to get used to the English game. I see Falcao as a once great striker that has been struck down by injury which has significantly hampered his remaining career. He is so different to the player that left Atletico a couple of years ago, its sad.
I do think it would be hard for any striker to thrive in our current team and set-up Fresh, couple that with his injury problems then I think he deserves more time.
The thing is I don't think its time to get used to England, its more to do with this style and set-up. You could look at most of our players and would be forgiven for thinking this is their first year in England and just returning from a bad injury.
I am more concerned about ADM being honest as we forked out for him and he hasn't been injured badly, yet he looks further away than ever.
It would help if he wasn't feeding of scraps.
he's made loads of runs off the ball but our players seem to like going sideways and backwards.
maybe we will see the real falcao when he's moved on and getting the service.
I honestly think his movement in General is ok not excellent but not shocking either, considering the move etc. he has not done poorly but not excelled liked I had expected / hoped.
We have seen it before with World Class players not settling in England or more importantly United. (Veron,Forlan,Berbatov the list could go on. )
I would honestly prefer to play Wilson week in week out than play Falcao if we are not going to make him a permanent signing. It would hugely benefit Wilson and also if we are not going to purchase Falcao we are essentially playing him and allowing him to regain his match fitness and sharpness and potentially sharpening the knife that may be shoved in our back next year if he stays in England or we meet him in Europe.
In summary play Wilson more, he needs it more than Falcao and we are not going to make him permanent.
We will regret not signing Falcao permanently because he will score lots of goals for another team in europe.
Falcao has made better runs then Van persie in recent times. I have seen falcao chasing balls where as van persie was ball watching.
We need to sell van persie to accomodate Falcao, the manager plays a kwy role in players form . Van gaal doesn't seem to instill any confidence in Falcao, he seems to prefer van persie even though he's in worse form then Falcao.
It woudnt be the end of the world if we don't sign him but it would be unfair to judge him because he hasn't been given a proper chance.
Falcao has certainly missed a number of excellent chances. If he'd scored those this would be a very different conversation. Then it would not be about sharpness and/or whether his past injuries are the predominant factor, but about the team setup, which is what it should be. Is there a common link to the failures of all our pure strikers over the last 2 seasons?
It doesn't matter who's up there. If the build up is slow, and we don't have any players who are capable of making killer balls, or players to run on to them, then any striker will struggle. The problem remains the same. It's been clear as day for 3 years or more. We have failed to replace our creative players with the quality to compete at the top level.
Exactly Shawthing. We have this set-up which is horrible to watch and we lack a striker that can create chances for himself. Our system is best suited to a Suarez type player.
I'd rather change the system, but if its sticking then we need strikers that operate differently. Rooney Pre-2012 would be ideal.
In fact it's a shame Suarez is the person he is, because he would fit like a glove at the moment from a footballing perspective - with a pacey Wilson next to him it would be frightening.
But I doubt we will stoop that low (and hope we don't), nothing would surprise me though!
Kane also looks like he could carry out that role. £30m bid may tempt Spurs.