Falcao...

And that Toby is the crux of the matter.

Falcao is a wonderful player, I agree we might not have the best set up for him but that could be tweaked and he’d bang them in for us, he’ll score where ever he plays. Aside from Ronaldo and Messi he’s the best striker on the planet and of course is more a pure striker than the other two, he’s just a natural. I think one of Mata or Oscar would be sacrificed in favour of Schurrle or Willian in the main and Hazard would be asked to get a bit more chalk on his boots. Jose likes to play inverted wingers, he could easily revert this and ask them to play a little wider and get to the by line more, this would also allow a central play maker more room, if that were Mata he would likely find his goal tally staying pretty healthy as he’ll operate much as Lampard once did with Drogba.

That said I think despite his face Suarez would be the best signing we could make, he can create goals for him self and is also a natural goal scorer, he’s a very mobile player and would be an absolute nightmare for defenders to pick up as he plays between the lines and can be quite allusive among the flair players a little deeper.

all we do is hump it to them

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Agreed. The problem stems from the fact that Drogba was just too good. So good that the team didn't even need to learn how to play for him as he just did everything by himself.

That's why I think that we need a make things happen type of striker like Suarez who isn't solely dependant on the service he gets from the team.

I think that 60 million on Falcao would be a huge risk as he would simply face the same type of problems that Torres faced before him.

Falcao would probably do a better job than Torres but for 60 million I fear that it could be an big waste of money. I´d rather spend that on Suarez.

Superb

Falcao is actually one of the few strikers in the world right now who can make things happen out of nothing, the other two being Zlatan and Suarez.

Falcao is actually one of the few strikers in the world right now who can make things happen out of nothing

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Agreed but from what I´ve seen of him Falcao makes things happen in or just outside the box.

Suarez by comparison makes things happen all over the pitch and never stops moving and trying to make things happen.

For whatever reason we just don't seem to play in a way that suits having a conventional striker.

It's no suprise that we so often see our strikers dropping deep or going wide. The reason they do that is because if they stay up front in the striking position very little happens for them.

Don't ask me why this is. As I said earlier I think it's a bit of a hangover from having Drogba who didn't need a team to play around him as he pretty much did it all himself.

We need to re-learn as a team how to play with a striker because we seem to have forgotten.

Failing that let's play with a formation that has two strikers seeing as many of our goals this season have come from having two strikers on the pitch at the same time.

Missed a huge trick in not chasing him harder in my opinion...the guy is just wasted at Monaco...

We have the weakest striking line up of the top six teams...& that includes Southampton

Perhaps a little greedy but can you imagine a partnership of Suarez and Falcao with Lukaku a battering ram on the bench? You look at the top sides and they mostly have a couple of quality forwards and that really is a disadvantage for us. United have got away with an otherwise average squad by their standards by having RVP and Rooney upfront.

Perhaps a little greedy but can you imagine a partnership of Suarez and Falcao

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The rest of the team could be made up of Leyton Orient players and we'd still win the PL with those two up front

comment by Bluedroog - Bring Back Smokewheel Pizza Lover ... (U17596)
posted 22 hours, 31 minutes ago
Perhaps a little greedy but can you imagine a partnership of Suarez and Falcao with Lukaku a battering ram on the bench? You look at the top sides and they mostly have a couple of quality forwards and that really is a disadvantage for us. United have got away with an otherwise average squad by their standards by having RVP and Rooney upfront.
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spot on....thier team is largely average at best....you can tell this as most of them are in the England side...

I don’t think you can get away with bad players and United are far from void of any talent but they do lack some top stars for a club of their statue. What they do have is solid players, dependable and hard working players who are used to winning, you have a solid foundation with players like Vidic, Jones and Carrick and stick goals up front (especially in a 2) and you’ll do alright.