Radamel Falcao has been reduced to tears by his Manchester United nightmare , according to the Colombia star ’ s former agent . 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 . The 29-year-old striker also expressed fears that he risked a recurrence of his serious knee injury by playing against lower-grade opposition . Radamel Falcao has endured a torrid time at Manchester United of late , and has been in tears at his situation . Falcao played for United 's Under 21s , but admitted to his former agent that he is scared of getting injured . Falcao lined up for United 's development side against Tottenham , but failed to make an impact on the game . Falcao is earning £280,000-a-week during his loan to United from Monaco , but it looks increasingly unlikely that Louis van Gaal will sanction a £43million deal to make the move permanent at the end of the season . The former Porto and Atletico Madrid man has only scored four goals for United and has not started a game for three weeks . 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 . Silvano Espindola ( left ) , Falcao 's former agent , has lifted the lid on the Colombian 's emotional struggle . Louis van Gaal now needs to decide whether he wants to shell out £43million to make the loan permanent . Falcao ( left ) battles with Antonio Valencia during a training session at United 's Aon Complex on Friday . ‘ 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 . ’
Radamel Falcao 's has spoken about Silvano Espindola current plight . The player 's former agent says he cries down the phone to him . Falcao is said to be afraid of injury playing for United 's Under 21 squad . The Colombian feels 'weird ' about his situation at Manchester United . CLICK HERE for all the latest Manchester United news .