Torres

[suzy]

I'd rather have seen Ronaldo in tears than Torres....

[Josef Svejk]

There's something odd about a grown man holding a grudge against a footballer, in my opinion. It's something a child does.

 

There isn't much about following football that isn't childish.

 

Not that everything childish is bad or even unbecoming of grown men...

[jimmycase]

Nah, sorry. Any cunt who says 'Here, everyone is professional' as a dig to his previous club is, well, a cunt.

[Tony Moanero]

Not that everything childish is bad or even unbecoming of grown men...

Actually, I agree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yer ma.

[aRdja]

Gerrard and Torres was as good a partnership as you'll find in recent English football history. I think injuries meant they didn't play too often together, but when they did it was frightening how destructive they were.

Sturridge Suarez was better I reckon.

[Section_31]

My favourite striker since Rush, a pure number 9, none of this fannying around in the hole bollocks. Maybe that's why it cut so deep when he shat on us on Chelsea TV. It was final confirmation the game was fatally broken and money had well and truly replaced all the emotional shit. Half expected the million dollar man to walk out and put a crown on his head.

 

Never really took to Suarez, whether that's because he was a bit of an oddball or because I was a broken man in the emotional Panini sticker stakes I don't know.

 

Not especially happy to see Torres crying but no sympathy either. When you fuck a fan base over you don't just deny yourself their love while you're playing, but for all time afterwards. That's why Gary Mac and Fowler and the likes will always be welcome, whether it's for a job, media role or just in need of a pint on a night out.

 

Torres is a man without a country. Maybe one day he'll realise what that feels like and have a few regrets.

[boots123]

All he got in terms of promises was that the club would be sold, and it was. The rest is on him.

Chelsea players said they were fed up with him saying I should have never left Liverpool.

[stringvest]

Torres has been poor for so long now, he's off the radar. That's what happens when you do it on purpose and the wind changes. My mum was right.

[Turkish Delight]

For all the goals he scored my over-riding memory of his time at Liverpool is the way he downed tools for his last 18 months at the club. During that time the only glimpse we got of the player we had before then was when he was trying to sell himself to Chelsea. Overall, I think he's a bit of a cunt who for all the adulation he was given really did not give a fuck about us and because of this I don't give a fuck about him.

[King Emlyn]

There's something odd about a grown man holding a grudge against a footballer, in my opinion. It's something a child does.

Why? The whole point of football is that it's parochial and trible, if somebody then moves onto a hated rival and insults your team in the process it would be odder not to hold a grudge. Are you one of those who wears half and half scarves? Oh sorry I forgot, you don't watch football do you, my bad.

[ZonkoVille77]

Would have liked to see him win it. He regrets leaving LFC. That will live with him forever, which is punishment enough for me.

[Harry Squatter]

At least he's got two European trophies, an FA Cup, tons of cash, a boss house, cars, and fit wife and won't need to work again to support his family once he's packed in playing. I feel dead sorry for him.

[Em City]

Sturridge Suarez was better I reckon.

 

Not going to say you're wrong because Sturridge-Suarez was otherworldly, but we did have to tweak formations to accommodate them. Gerrard and Torres were equally devastating, but allowed us to play in our favoured 4-2-3-1. Regardless, we've been lucky to see some class players rip it up over the years.

[stringvest]

Torres and Gerrard as a partnership was stumbled upon, but once it was up and running it was one of the best we've seen since Dalglish and Rush.   It won us fuck all though.  

[aRdja]

Torres and Gerrard as a partnership was stumbled upon, but once it was up and running it was one of the best we've seen since Dalglish and Rush. It won us fuck all though.

How was it 'stumbled upon'? Rafa never liked Gerrard as a CM, so he bought Alonso first and then Mascherano to play there, which leaves AM as Gerrard's position.

[navbasi]

[stringvest]

How was it 'stumbled upon'? Rafa never liked Gerrard as a CM, so he bought Alonso first and then Mascherano to play there, which leaves AM as Gerrard's position.

 

 

because they didn't play in that way when Torres first came over.  We weren't really firing, so Benitez tried a number of things before settling with Gerrard playing off Torres.  Which, in case you get offended, isn't a criticism, it's actually a testament to Benitez's coaching. 

[Tony Moanero]

because they didn't play in that way when Torres first came over. We weren't really firing, so Benitez tried a number of things before settling with Gerrard playing off Torres. Which, in case you get offended, isn't a criticism, it's actually a testament to Benitez's coaching.

Hardly stumbled upon then, was it?

[stringvest]

Hardly stumbled upon then, was it?

 

 

give it a rest, Tone.  You're obsessed.  

[Tony Moanero]

Yeah, sound.

[stringvest]

Anyway, Torres and Gerrard come in 4th or 5th on my list of attacking partnerships I've witnessed at Anfield.  Keegan/Toshack, Dalglish/Rush, Owen/Fowler, Suarez/Sturridge.  

 

The first three of those partnerships actually won stuff, and the last was prolific as fuck.

[Tony Moanero]

Fowler and Owen were great individually, but they weren't a better partnership than Gerrard and Torres, in my opinion. I agree that the others were better, though.

 

Winning is everything. It's just unfortunate that Rafa and our 2008-09 team were up against a better manager and team in Alex Ferguson and Manchester United.

[Section_31]

Fowler and Owen were shite together.

[RobbieOR]

Gerrard started playing off the striker ahead of Mascherano and Alonso about 6 months before we bought Torres.

[stringvest]

Fowler and Owen were shite together.

 

 

they won trophies together.