Well for £250k plus per week I'd prefer to pay someone who can actually score, or at least have the confidence to try and score, something Falcao has seemed to have forgotten to do. By all accounts away from the pitch he is a very likeable guy and there is no doubt he enjoys the aura of playing for Manchester United...and there is an aura about the club that you don't get with Chelsea, Arsenal and the filth in Merseyside, though the last one is tainted by the fact they consider racism acceptable and have more blood on their hands as a club than Fred fucking West. But is wanting to be a United player and being a nice guy warrant a longer spell at the club? Some would say he comes without a transfer fee so it is not a gamble...but it is. By taking Falcao on loan again you limit the appearances for United by a great young prospect - James Wilson. No doubt Wilson will be shipped out on loan which isn't always a bad thing as long as he is playing, but it still means a place in our squad...and bench...will be taken up by an ageing striker, touching 30 and who has less chance of scoring than Ryan Giggs has at a family reunion.
Falcao is costing United a cool £1 million in wages per month, that's £12 million a season, even for £12 million you can pick up some cracking players in the transfer market in positions we desperately need to strengthen in, yes we have a large war chest this summer but if we get Champions League football, (and with our injury record) then we'll need every able bodied footballer we can get. Although Falcao's recent injury record means we could be one of the most generous outlets of disability living allowance in the world if we are paying a cripple a quarter of a million per week.
Ah, but Raving...Falcao needs a run of games etc etc blah blah fucking blah. BULLSHIT. Falcao had a run of games in a United shirt this season, from 20th December to the 31st of January he had eight starts, eight starts that wielded three goals. Wow, that's almost one every two games I hear the pro-Falcao fans say...no it is nearer one goal every three games which is hardly the stats of a world class striker at one of the biggest clubs in the world. His three goals were against Villa, Leicester and Stoke, two of which were struggling with relegation...so if we play him only against Midland teams he could be fucking deadly. The worst part of that eight game run is that two of the games were in the FA cup against such giants as Cambridge United and Yeovil and Falcao looked absolutely dreadful, and let us not forget a few weeks later he played against the mighty Preston as well and lasted an hour before being dragged off. Lets repeat that shall we - three games against three lower league teams and he didn't score a single goal and was hauled off after an hour in two of those as he looked that dire. Quarter of a million a week in wages sounds like a fucking bargain now doesn't it?
Falcao has had sixteen starts for United, with eleven appearances from the bench and in that time he has paid us back with four goals and four assists...one goal and one assist every four games if you don't include the sub appearances. We sold a young striker from our youth ranks whose scoring record was one goal every four games - Danny Welbeck, to make way for Falcao and Danny at least had the excuse that he was played out of position the majority of the time, though personally I don't think Danny was United class either and his scoring record at Arsenal is...yep, you guessed it - One in four, which proves my point.
So, perhaps it is the formation that doesn't help Falcao's cause? Well Rooney is undroppabale to Van Gaal and Falcao seemed just as uncomfortable in a two pronged strike force as he did in a one man attack...the excuses are starting to wear thin aren't they? Some would take Falcao over RvP but as we have seen on the weekend against West Brom,at least RvP tries to score, looks like he believes he can score and has better movement than Falcao, also RvP has a track record in this country which Falcao sadly does not have. Falcao looks a sad shadow of his former self and often gets shrugged off the ball, something that was once a difficult task to do...in fact watch how many times he slips now during a game and you start to wonder if he has trodden in dog shit somewhere on the pitch.
If our messiah Van Gaal is going for a one man strike force with it being Rooney at all costs then what class striker is going to come to United in the summer? Do you feel confident going into a new campaign with a front line strike force of Rooney, RvP, Falcao plus one more?...three of who are currently here and we are struggling to break the goals tally from the Moyes reign of terror twelve months ago. Nah, fuck that, we need new blood up front, we need Rooney feeling wood, and by that I mean getting his arse benched and not stroking himself outside an old peoples home. Van Gaal needs to grow a pair and send Falcao home because he has it in him, he had the balls to retire Giggs which is something Sir Alex couldn't bring himself to do and he must show the ruthless streak he has shown to Herrera, Mata and Rafael this season when he dropped them without real cause for long periods of time.
Falcao? FalcNO!