Radamel Falcao may have played for Manchester United and Chelsea – but it is Aston Villa who didn’t snatch him up first.
The 38-year-old is considered one of the greatest strikers of his generation and was the first Colombian to score 350 career goals.
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Falcao won trophies with postage in Portugal with Atletico Madrid in Spain, with Monaco in France and with a fluid plate in Argentina.
No player has achieved more in a single Europa League season than Falcaos 17, which he gathered in the 2010/11 campaign to help postage to raise the title.
While Falcao is also the only player who scored four goals in a co-comparison in Europe.
His three hat tricks in the Europa League are also a common high, while he is the only player who has achieved a hat trick in the UEFA super cup.
But before it became a well -known name in Europe, Falcao hit the gates for the fluid plates.
In the transfer window of Martin O’Neill in 2008 it led by Martin O’Neill to the reported interests of Aston Villa.
At that time, Villa fought for a place in the Champions League and a first top four place since the 1995/96 season.
O’Neill wanted to offer the competition for Jon Carew, Gabby Agbonlahor, Marlon Harewood and Luke Moore at the top.
And according to the Birmingham Mail, Falcao was the man who was identified as a player to secure a place in the leading competition in Europe to the Midlands outfit.
It was said that Tottenhams Jermain Defoe was also brought to the club together with a blow in Liverpools Peter Crouch.
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But it was Falcao that was the preferred goal, with the club again attacking the river plate to land another Colombian cult hero.
In 2001 the villa broke its transfer record to sign Juan Pablo Angel worth £ 9.5 million.
Angel proved to be a great success with Villa’s fan base, and the striker scored 62 goals in 205 excursions.
It was reported that the villa had a 5 -dollar offer that was repelled by River Plate when they wanted them to give up clubs all over the world.
Fluminense from Brazil also competed for its services, while AC Milan saw an offer of 12.5 million GBP.
This offer was claimed to be “laughed out of the room”, whereby the villa immediately went away from a possible deal.
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Radamel Falcao career -highlights
- Flussplatte – 2007–08 Clausura
- Porto – Primeira Liga X1, Europa League X1, Tacda de Portugal X2, Super Cup X 3
- Atletico Madrid – Europa League X1, Copa Del Rey X1, UEFA Super Cup X1
- Monaco – Ligue 1
The former owner Randy learner ultimately considered Falcao too expensive and refused to improve her offer, but wanted to concentrate on a cheaper domestic goal.
It is a start contrast from Villa today to spray the money to sign Marcus Rashford from Manchester United from loan.
The villa, which is spoken about a purchase option for Rashford with 40 million GBP, pays most of its wages of £ 350,000 a week.
And in contrast to the current villa, who signed a striker after the sale of Jhon Duran, Villa’s Dithering saw the former target Defoe, which was sold to Portsmouth, through the Falcao Transfer.
In the meantime, Liverpool refused to separate himself in the middle of the crouche campaign.
It left the villa to include wing players Wayne Routledge from Spurs in a deal of 1.25 million GBP.
After all, Routledge could not impress – just a Premier League excursion when the villa ultimately took sixth place in the table.
After all, O’Neill would get his striker -Emile Heskey the following year -but he would never see his Champions League dream in Villa Park.
As far as Falcao is concerned, he finally received 72 goals in Porto in Porto, where he scored 72 goals in 87 excursions.
Loans changes to Manchester United [2014/15] and chelsea [2015/16] Later in his career, although he did not do justice to his reputation.
Both business included the option of transforming its temporary switch into a permanent stay, even though nobody has taken it in.
While Falcao may be struggling in England, the Villa fans will still ruin what could have been if they managed to land it in 2008.