If anyone can make Radamel Falcao great again, it's Jose Mourinho. That’s what they said.
The trouble is, he didn’t, and Chelsea are left with a 30-year-old on £140,000 per week who cannot get a game, even when the striker cupboard is bare.
This is the curious case of Colombia’s all-time joint-top goalscorer. The man who scored four goals in 29 appearances for Manchester United yet, somehow, secured a season-long loan at Chelsea...
So what was it that Mourinho saw in Falcao that no-one else did?
The two share the same super-agent and, usually, what Jorge Mendes wants, Jorge Mendes gets. That’s a suggestion being tossed around in some circles. Did that connection play a role in his coming to Chelsea?
Or did Mourinho by coincidence think he could conquer a challenge that had spectacularly fallen flat in Louis van Gaal's face? It’s a guessing game.
What we know is there were only two options. Either a) Chelsea thought they could get out of him what Manchester United couldn’t. Or b) he would follow in the footsteps of Fernando Torres.
Kieran Gill for MailOnline
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