Radamel Falcao
Age: 27
Clubs: River Plate, FC Porto, Atletico Madrid, AS Monaco.
Price: £53m
Falcao is another, like Cavani, whose goal-scoring rate has just got better with age and at 27-years-old Monaco will be hoping the best is yet to come.
The Colombian made his name in Europe with Porto and was one of a number of big names who have left the Portuguese club for a colossal fee in the last 10 years – £41.2m to Atletico.
Yet 70 goals in 91 appearances for the Spanish club tells you all you need to know about Falcao’s threat in-front of goal and if it hadn’t been for a certain duo of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the Colombia international would have stolen the headlines across the continent.
Amazingly the striker only has 34 caps for his country and has managed a respectable 13 goals. The only downside this year is that no Champions League football for Monaco will deny most fans outside of France a glimpse of Falcao.
fanatix rating: 8/10
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