'My son rejected Arsenal and Liverpool – Man Utd are the most important team in England'

Radamel Falcao emerged arsenic 1 of Europe's apical strikers during the aboriginal 2010s and rejected immoderate large names earlier moving to Manchester United successful 2014

Colombian marksman Radamel Falcao rejected advances from Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City earlier joining Louis van Gaal's Manchester United successful 2014.

That's according to the player's father, who revealed that his lad chose the Red Devils from a range of Deadline Day suitors due to the fact that they are the astir important broadside successful England.

Falcao made a sanction for himself astatine Porto, and

upon arriving successful the Spanish superior with Atletico Madrid

successful 2011, rapidly developed into 1 of the deadliest goalscorers successful Europe. He won consecutive Europe League titles from 2011-2012 and a 2012 UEFA Super Cup with Atletico against Chelsea.

A spell with Monaco followed, and aft recovering from a lengthy spell connected the sidelines with a genu injury, a summertime determination beckoned successful 2014. Van Gaal's United won the contention to motion the Colombian, arsenic helium joined connected an archetypal indebtedness with a reported £43.5million enactment to bargain – rejecting European heavyweights and Premier League giants successful the process.

Falcao's father, Radamel Garcia – a erstwhile Colombia defender who competed astatine the 1980 Summer Olympics successful Moscow – revealed the clubs his lad rejected to articulation connected loan.

"Manchester United is the astir important squad successful England and 1 of the astir almighty financially," Garcia revealed to Colombian radio.

"Juventus, Manchester City, Liverpool besides approached him and Arsenal astatine the past minute. Fortunately, helium ended up astatine Manchester United, a large squad that helium has to pb forward."

However, specified days earlier the Colombian striker sealed his determination to Old Trafford, helium posted a tweet reading: 'Hala Madrid.' A long-time servant of Real Madrid's rivals Atletico, Falcao evidently wished to instrumentality to the Spanish superior with Los Blancos.

Yet that woody ne'er came to fruition, and helium arrived connected English ungraded instead. His begetter shed airy connected the failed Bernabeu switch, adding: "Things did not hap with Real Madrid due to the fact that if you person wealth and you spell to the shops to bargain a garment oregon trousers, you person to determine if you bargain it oregon not.

"So Real Madrid opted not to bash it, and you can’t bash thing astir that. Apart from that, I don’t know, I person a feeling they wanted the subordinate to connection himself arsenic a acquisition with a fig of conditions and things similar that.

"It didn’t hap because, arsenic I said, they decided to bargain the trousers and the garment they wanted, and they considered what was amended for them, and you person to judge that due to the fact that they are the ones who wage the money. Thank God, everything happened with Manchester United."

Alas, Falcao's clip successful England was dismal erstwhile compared to the numbers helium mustered successful Spain and France. He played 29 times for United during his lone play with the club, scoring conscionable 4 goals nether Van Gaal and adjacent being shipped down to play for the club's Under-21s side.

He subsequently returned to Monaco, lone to beryllium instantly sent backmost to England with semipermanent admirers Chelsea. This move, a woody akin to United's – an archetypal indebtedness with a £38m bargain enactment – went adjacent worse. The striker notched conscionable a azygous extremity earlier a nasty thigh wounded chopped abbreviated his year-long spell.

Falcao, present 38, is inactive lacing up his boots, having precocious returned to his autochthonal Colombia to play for 16-time champions Millonarios, based successful Bogota.

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