The former agent of Radamel Falcao says he's been reduced to tears over his situation at Manchester United. Silvano Espindola revealed that Falcao phoned him from Old Trafford last week before he was made to play for the Under 21s against Tottenham and admitted he felt "weird" about the situation.

Espindola, Falcao's close friend and former representative, told AS Colombia: "We speak a lot. I am not going to tell you that he feels happy because he isn't. We speak many times, and we cry together.

"It is not an easy situation because every player wants to play and every goalscorer wants to score goals, it's what's normal.

"While on his way to the ground to play that match with the youth team he called me. We talked for about 20 minutes while he arrived at the stadium and he told me 'something like this had never happened to me - I don't know how to handle the situation, I feel weird!'

"He was a little fearful because he is afraid of those matches with the youth teams and of the second and third divisions. In those categories they are used to whacking and going in hard. That was how they injured him in France, with a team from the fourth division."