Maybe I'm missing something, but how can he take a pay cut if he comes on loan?

His deal with Monaco is set in stone, they have to pay him that amount regardless..unless it's torn up, which isn't going to happen as he's a multi million pound asset to them. And Monaco sure as hell won't agree to paying 60 or 70 per cent of his wages while he plays for us.

I am pretty sure the pay cut talk was if he was transfers to us permanently, but then there is the small matter of the 30 or 40 odd million transfer fee.....

I could give you a couple of half-baked theories based on my very limited knowledge of football finances, but honestly, I have no idea how it would work and I didn't really think about it. I just assumed it would be a loan because there's no hint of a transfer fee mentioned anywhere, and that's usually the first thing you see in these sorts of reports. I also assumed it would be a loan because I don't think I can comprehend the idea that our club - or any club - would be willing to discuss the possibility of signing him to a permanent deal after the season he's just had (even at half the price Monaco were originally asking for).

Maybe I'm missing something, but how can he take a pay cut if he comes on loan?

His deal with Monaco is set in stone, they have to pay him that amount regardless..unless it's torn up, which isn't going to happen as he's a multi million pound asset to them. And Monaco sure as hell won't agree to paying 60 or 70 per cent of his wages while he plays for us.

I am pretty sure the pay cut talk was if he was transfers to us permanently, but then there is the small matter of the 30 or 40 odd million transfer fee.....

He can't, only option in that regard is for Monaco to pay a % of his wages.  I'd offer them a small loan fee and 50% of wages until January, where we then reassess whether to keep him until end of season with a view to a permanent deal. If we take the option up to keep him past January we pay Monaco another small loan fee which makes the buy option legally binding.

 

That sounds absolutely mental reading it back to myself but it isn't beyond all possibility

His wages is £12 mil a year in Monaco, without tax. I doubt Falcao wants to earn 1/3, or 1/4 of that with us because of a paycut and taxes.

He can't, only option in that regard is for Monaco to pay a % of his wages.  I'd offer them a small loan fee and 50% of wages until January, where we then reassess whether to keep him until end of season with a view to a permanent deal. If we take the option up to keep him past January we pay Monaco another small loan fee which makes the buy option legally binding.

 

That sounds absolutely mental reading it back to myself but it isn't beyond all possibility

It's a nice theory :-)

I'll still feel sick paying him the 150k a week 50% Wages though, going on last seasons form.

Atletico can bring him back after we buy Griezmann 

Take the risk.

 

Get him on loan. See what he can do.

No no and many more no's.

 

We only just got over the nightmare that was Torres. Let's not do it all again.

We do this we are mugs, complete mugs

We love a washed up 29 year old striker On huge wages.

I think there's something to this Falcao rumour. We signed one useless Colombian, might as well sign another to keep him company.

And Roman does like his washed-up strikers: Shevchenko, Torres, Eto'o, Drogba Mark 2. Why stop the rot now? Besides, it's official club policy to have an over-the-hill striker on the books.

Perhaps he's banging in the goals in Arkadiusz' Football Manager and FIFA teams, so he's made his father a small request...

Edited May 30, 201511 yr by GhostOfDembaPast

People are saying it's fine if he signs because he's only going to play the drogba role as third choice striker.

This season drogba featured in more games than Costa. According to sky sports anyway.

At least drogba is a big bully who can give defences a headache with his presence. Falcao does not offer those characteristics and will be a f**king disaster IMO.

Would in no way feel confident going into a crunch PL game with Costa and remy injured, knowing that we had falcao leading the line. This just makes no sense, at all.

Sky Sports reporting it now. I don't know how to feel about this.

The question is...who else is there?

 

None of the young strikers are going to be 3rd choice. 

Get Falcao in on loan and have him and Remy battle it out for 2nd spot.

Falcao doesn't strike me as someone who is going to settle for 3rd place.

If he was to come then I could see Remy wanting to go

If getting Falcao in on loan results in Remy wanting to leave this deal is worse than I initially imagined.

Getting scary now

How much will this cost? 40m? f**k that. What on earth are they thinking?

Hope this doesn't drain the funds from other potential targets. Don't see anything wrong with having Remy as a backup -- and I don't think he'll fancy playing 3rd choice.

This could be a loan though...

Edited May 30, 201511 yr by MANoWAR

So sky sports are now reporting it....genuinely staggered by this one if there is substance to the reports...

After Torres....well. I guess we'll see.

Edited May 30, 201511 yr by Blue Exile

Guess Roman will never learn.

Better not lose Remy to accommodate this guy

If this falls through, we should go for Balotelli :-)

Maybe we could bring Sheva out of retirement and bring Torres back and we can have a real dynamic trio up top. Eat your heart out Barca. 

Maybe we could bring Sheva out of retirement and bring Torres back and we can have a real dynamic trio up top. Eat your heart out Barca.

That would be a dream come true.

What are we, a f**king charity? We've had our fair share of crooked players now, time to move on.

This would be a totally bizarre signing. Four goals last season is a poor outturn, I cannot understand why we're going for him.

 

SSN are saying that this will be a transfer, not a loan. If so, how much will his transfer fee be? £30m? £40m? Anything more than £25m would be criminal in my view. Also there's his wages, isn't he on £360k a week as it currently stands? Hazard is our highest paid player on a reported £200k a week so for Falcao to join here as a backup he'd need to take a lot less than that.

 

I'm very worried that this has Torres mk 2 written all over it.

Edited May 30, 201511 yr by Huttsey