Harsh on Remy, who on current evidence is better than Falcao, if Chelsea get Falcao.

I hope Remy will stay, tbh.

Costa, Remy and Falcao is huge quality and depth.

Remy should stay if he is your 2nd choice striker. If you sign Falcao, who obviously wouldn't be 3rd choice, Remy should leave. It's like Dzeko at City, too good to be 3rd choice.

I know

I'd rather keep Remy and promote Bamford, the freaking championship player of the season, but I am not part of our board

I'm surprised Mourinho is even interested in Falcao after the season he had, he would be a gamble and Chelsea are in position to make better signings than gambles.

So is every Chelsea fan

Well, there are 2 explanations if this truly happens.

1. It's a Mendez money coup and has nothing to do with the sporting aspect, something like Altintop to Real Madrid. Mourinho and Falcao share the same agent.

2. Falcao isn't actually finished. He initially struggled after his injuries and without preseason preparations in a new team under a manager who is famous for not getting the best out of strikers in his very striker-unfriendly system which led to loss of confidence and some uncharacteristically poor showings by Falcao.

I think Jose thinks it's the second option, tbh.

Falcao already looked slower and on the downturn in his first 4 months with Monaco when he was healthy... unlike Cavani, he was playing CF AND he had James and Moutinho feeding him the ball. So you couldn't blame it on being played out of position.

After a ACL tear and 18 months... i can't imagine he's going to suddenly regain his dynamism. Maybe he will. But it's a huge gamble on his wages and given his age (or alleged age )

It's only a huge gamble if we sell Remy, tbh.

I think Falcao will be the 3rd choice striker. Also, such a high profile player will be used to pressure Remy to step-up further.

There are a lots of good players under Mendes. Lets see what is next.
Till latin striker and Jose was a good love story.

Fußball wrote:Well, there are 2 explanations if this truly happens.

1. It's a Mendez money coup and has nothing to do with the sporting aspect, something like Altintop to Real Madrid. Mourinho and Falcao share the same agent.

2. Falcao isn't actually finished. He initially struggled after his injuries and without preseason preparations in a new team under a manager who is famous for not getting the best out of strikers in his very striker-unfriendly system which led to loss of confidence and some uncharacteristically poor showings by Falcao.

I'm going with the second option, and I can't help but feel Falcao is a significant reinforcement for Chelsea.

I think it's a bit of both tbh.

Waiting for Gil to do a 180 now..

On a sidenote,dint know he cut his hair actually.Maybe that could bring him some luck

S wrote:Waiting for Gil to do a 180 now..

On a sidenote,dint know he cut his hair actually.Maybe that could bring him some luck

It didn't do anything for Torres, the poor block tried everything.

Hopefully the haircut symbolizes a huge paycut.

Monaco shouldn't take the deal unless it includes Remy going the other way imo .

Monaco don't want the wages of Remy. Martial is going to be the starting CF and they want to develop De Carvalho that they bought from Fluminese in the winter of last season (he's 23). You also have Lacina Traore and Aboubakar on the squad.

Monaco doesn't need a CF really. They are going to go after a LB, wingers and CMs however as they are expected to also sell Kurzawa, Carrasco and Moutinho. Since their Sporting Director was hand picked by Mendes (as was Jardim btw), i expect them to raid South America and the Portuguese league.

Kondogbia and Abdennour will be sold too.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/16/chelsea-agree-radamel-falcao-loan-deal-monaco

Chelsea have agreed a financial package in principle with Monaco to secure Radamel Falcao on a season-long loan, in a move that could have an impact upon Loïc Rémy’s immediate future with the Premier League champions.

Falcao, currently at the Copa América with Colombia, will make a swift return to English football following his disappointing loan spell at Manchester United last season after a fortnight of talks between his agent Jorge Mendes and the Chelsea hierarchy. The 29-year-old striker managed just four goals in 29 appearances for Louis van Gaal’s side and a solitary shot on target in his final 12 Premier League games. United duly passed up the chance to make the deal permanent for £43.2m.

Chelsea would have a similar option next summer, albeit for nearer £35m, having agreed to pay a loan fee in the region of £4m for the forward. Falcao earns £265,000 a week under the terms of his contract at Stade Louis II, a figure United covered last term, though it is understood he will waive a proportion of that salary to move to the Premier League champions. Chelsea’s highest earner at present is Eden Hazard on around £200,000 a week and the new arrival is unlikely to match that salary.

Falcao’s time at Old Trafford was initially hampered by injury, though once available he rarely looked the same powerhouse who had so thrived at Porto and Atlético Madrid – not least at Chelsea’s expense in the 2012 Uefa Super Cup, when he scored a hat-trick – before suffering a serious cruciate knee ligament injury with Monaco which ruled him out of last summer’s World Cup finals. His four United goals came against Everton, Aston Villa, Stoke and Leicester, the last on 31 January, and his campaign rather petered out in frustration.

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Yet José Mourinho, who shares the same agent as Falcao and has lost Didier Drogba this summer, impressed upon the Chelsea board his belief that he can coax the best from the forward. He went public in his admiration for the Colombian in an interview last week with DirecTV Sports. “I know him very well from when I was in Portugal and Spain,” he said. “For a player of his level and quality, it’s a real shame that people in England think Falcao is the player who was at Manchester United.

“I don’t have a close relationship with him, but it hurts me because he’s a great player. If there’s any way for me to help the English people to get to know the real Falcao, that would give me pleasure. But I don’t do the negotiations. I just tell the board, my club, the players I’m interested in.”

Talks between Mendes, Monaco and the Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia, who oversees their transfer and contract negotiations, are now understood to have led to an agreement in principle even if the player is likely to require extensive medical checks once Colombia’s participation in the Copa América in Chile is over. The Ligue 1 club could still seek to take players on loan from Chelsea as part of the arrangement having declared an interest in the teenage Belgium Under-21 international Charly Musonda and the Croatia midfielder Mario Pasalic.

The completion of the deal for Falcao would leave Rémy contemplating his future at Stamford Bridge, as the France striker had been seeking reassurances he would receive more playing time next year before Euro 2016. The £10.5m arrival from Queens Park Rangers started only six top-flight games last season, scoring seven goals, and has attracted interest from West Ham, Crystal Palace and Lyon, from whose academy he graduated.

Palace, now overseen by Rémy’s former manager at Newcastle, Alan Pardew, finished 10th last season and hope to add two or three eye-catching, established talents to their squad. They have spoken to Paris Saint-Germain about another former Newcastle player, the midfielder Yohan Cabaye, and would be prepared to offer the striker, who earns around £80,000 a week at present, a competitive wage.

Whether they could meet the fee required to prise Rémy away, however, remains to be seen though the fact Chelsea could potentially follow up Falcao’s arrival with a £43m move for Atlético’s Antoine Griezmann could hasten his departure.

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Agreed.

The Franchise wrote:As long as Falcao is 28 and not 32, I dont see how he doesnt play as he did the last time he was relevant to me. Di Maria and Mata alone will put in the kind of service that he wants.

Told you the overrated scrub is a fraud. Fell from Top 10 to not mentioned at all.

Should be a good water carrier for the main man.

Its so foretelling where this is going

When Hazard starts feeding Falcao:

Gil: "Wow, top 1 player, not even ADM can do for this donkey what Hazard is doing atm "

Can't wait for Gil's Falcao thread when Falcao goes goal frenzy at the beginning of the season.

Falcao scoring would just result in a Mourinho/Hazard/Oscar/Cesc spinoff praise & jubilation thread.

It's a win-win situation for me.