John Terry Insists Falcao Proved at Manchester United That He’s Chelsea Quality

John Terry believes Falcao proved at Manchester United last season why he’s good enough to be a star at Chelsea.

The Colombian striker moved to Stamford Bridge this summer after signing a season-long loan deal from Monaco.

That follows a campaign on loan with United which saw him score just four goals in 29 appearances under Louis van Gaal.

Falcao will always be remembered as a flop at Old Trafford, given he was signed for £6million with the possibility of making the move permanent for a whopping £43.5million and handed £265,000 per week in wages.

But none of that put Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho off bringing the former Porto and Atletico Madrid man to Stamford Bridge.

And Terry has followed that up by explaining just what makes Falcao a world class striker – as he learned when facing the striker when he was playing for United last term.

Terry was speaking as Sky Sports News covered the English Premier League launch today and told reporter Geoff Shreeves:

Having played against him last year first hand, his movement is unbelievable. After two minutes of when we played Manchester United at home, I turned to Gaz [Cahill] and said ‘listen, we have to be on it today, he’s up for it’. After two minutes he’d given me an elbow, he was backing into me, running behind, running short. He didn’t leave me alone. And when he went to Gaz I was quite relieved actually. I said honestly we’ve got to be on it. We were and we kept him at bay, but we had a little tussle on the floor, he was up for it and I’ve seen first hand now on a daily basis his finishing and it’s unbelievable. If he gets a run in the side he could really reproduce what he’s shown in the past.

Terry also believes Falcao is signing for the club in search of trophies.

And if the Premier League champions are to replicate their success from last season, he’ll need to join Diego Costa in hitting the net regularly.

He added:

Of course, his career is all about goals and scoring on the big occasions. Big important goals. So I’m hoping that’s what he brings to our side. When you strip things down and talk to a player one-on-one, he wants to succeed and no doubt that’s why he’s come to us. He wants to win things and for us to do that he has to score a lot of goals. We’re hoping it’s a great combination and he does really well for us.

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