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Torres: LFC fans have loving words for me

Fernando Torres is 30 today and it would appear he's overdone the partying somewhat, as he's bizarrely claimed that "the Liverpool fans I have come across have had loving words for me." Put the bottle down, Fernando, you've clearly had too much.

 

The Spanish striker who left Anfield for Chelsea in January 2011 in a £50m deal, was speaking to Spanish newspaper AS on a wide range of subjects including his time on Merseyside, and once again repeated his "the fans don't know the real story" mantra before once again declining to set the record straight and tell us the 'real story'.

 

"I played three-and-a-half years there and they made me feel at home," Torres said. "The affection of the fans was tremendous and made me feel a quiet confidence."

 

Speaking about his reasons for leaving, he trotted out the same old lines we've heard several times before, both from Torres and also his former team-mate Javier Mascherano who had jumped ship a few months earlier: "They (the fans) haven't understood because all they've been told is the version that some people have given the club and the media. They have been sold something which isn't reality.

 

"I'm sure it's not easy to understand when a player leaves, but I have the thousands of letters I've received in London from Liverpool fans thanking me and now following me in another team. Last year we went to play at Anfield and a man over 70, almost in tears, thanked me and wished me the best.

 

"There will be every kind of reaction but the Liverpool fans I have come across have had loving words for me."

 

Thousands of letters eh? From Liverpool fans still following you as you play for Chelsea?  Sure, Fernando, of course you have.

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He does have a touch of the Fredo Corleone about him.

 

"It ain't the way I wanted it!"

 

Easily the most underrated performance of the Godfather trilogy.  The guy who plays him is fantastic.

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John Cazale, a tragically short career but did include The Godfather I and II, The Deer Hunter and Dog Day Afternoon amongst others. More great films than most actors manage in 30 year careers.

 

Only actor whose every film gained a Best Picture Oscar nomination. As Fernando has learnt, sometimes history remembers better those who burn brightly rather than fade away

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The knee injury against Reading in the cup replay in Anfield and then Benfica realistically was the end for Fernando, I remember watching him in the 2010 WC and cringing the player I loved and idolised looked shot to bits completely out of his depth. He's right, I'll never forget how good he was for us and when he retires he'll always be remembered as a great Liverpool player.

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"When we were at Chelsea together Fernando Torres would always say Liverpool is amazing, always," Sturridge recalls. "Yossi Benayoun was the same. They both said it was the best club they had played for and that the fans will make you feel amazing. At the time I thought, 'I need a bit of that in my life because I am so low right now, I need to feel good about myself'. It was an easy decision to come here."

 

 

He totally regrets it. Which is why he gets absolutely no sympathy from me.

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As an athlete myself I never really understood footballers, how's it better to be a good player (or not even that) in a club against being in a club and having godlike status, even playing like it?! And it's not just Torres it's every other player who goes to Barca/Real/any shithouse soulless big club with money... It's a shame, I don't blame him or I'm not mad at him, life's been shite for him but it's entirely his foult for that, so no empathy either.

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As an athlete myself I never really understood footballers, how's it better to be a good player (or not even that) in a club against being in a club and having godlike status, even playing like it?! And it's not just Torres it's every other player who goes to Barca/Real/any shithouse soulless big club with money... It's a shame, I don't blame him or I'm not mad at him, life's been shite for him but it's entirely his foult for that, so no empathy either.

Same reason Aspas gave up godlike status at Celta to come to Liverpool. Footballers tend to think they're much better than they are. You're not allowed to have self-doubt in such a competitive environment.

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As an athlete myself I never really understood footballers, how's it better to be a good player (or not even that) in a club against being in a club and having godlike status, even playing like it?! And it's not just Torres it's every other player who goes to Barca/Real/any shithouse soulless big club with money... It's a shame, I don't blame him or I'm not mad at him, life's been shite for him but it's entirely his foult for that, so no empathy either.

 

I don't think any of them actually think it but just say it to save face when they realise they've fucked up, don't care what he has won, bet Torres has been miserable from the start there

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I don't have any resentment for him. He was ace for most of the time he was here, - and when he stopped trying, we sold him for £50m, and now he's shit.

 

oh, and Skrtel has scored more than him in the league this season

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I don't hold any grudges where Torres is concerned . At the time the fact that it was Chelsea , a symbol of all I despise in modern football, that stuck in my throat. £50m was a great price

Subsequently the fact we spunked most of it on a useless geordy galoot was mental

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or the simple explanation is (as with Michael Owen who claimed something similar) the vast majority of fans think your a wanker but have the class not to go making a song and dance of it to your face so the only ones that you interact with are the silly beggers who haven't cottoned on your a bit of a prick

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I still have feelings for him

 

get over it. Torres from 2008 - '10 doesn't exist any more.

 

that surly looking bloke in the Chelsea shirt isn't half the player of the one on all those youtube vid's scoring for us.

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When I run out of nursery rhymes I sing the Torres song to my daughter. It makes her calm down, so much so the wife sings it to her too. It makes me cry inside.

 

He knows he should have stayed, he's not arsed at that cunt of a club , he'd have been brilliant with Suarez but he made his choice.

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*that Chelsea video has been blocked from this website. I probably couldn't have done longer than 5 seconds anyway.

 

*the Torres song tune is a passed down generational classic for chilling out kids. Teddybears picnic wasn't it.?

 

*sturridge better than Torres ever was? Hhmmmm it's a bold statement, I like it. Tbh not entirely sure , yet.

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