Torres

[Tony Moanero]

Shearer was a better forward than Torres. Not even close tbh. Got to admire his loyalty to Newcastle when he could have been winning titles galore at the mancs.

Grinch knows.

[Dr. J]

He only scored consistently with us. He was never prolific for Atletico or Spain prior to joining.

 

In the build-up to his coming I remember reading some Spanish journo saying the word about him was that he wasn't a great goal scorer but that he scored great goals. Proved true enough for us, I think.

[magicrat]

The two commentary cunts doing a hatchet job on Walcott now, I fucking detest them

[Tony Moanero]

People are watching England v Holland?

[magicrat]

Woy's been wobbed

[Tony Moanero]

Yer ma.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

In the build-up to his coming I remember reading some Spanish journo saying the word about him was that he wasn't a great goal scorer but that he scored great goals. Proved true enough for us, I think.

The latter proved true, not the former.

 

65 goals in 102 games qualifies you as a great goalscorer.

[Pureblood]

He was fucked by the time we signed Suarez.  I don't think they'd have hit it off as a pair. We came out of that transfer window well, despite blowing £35m on Andy Carroll.  

 

You could tell Torres was in trouble during Rafa's last season.  He played through injections, if I recall correctly. 

[Section_31]

Torres with motoneuron disease would have been better than Carroll, the big useless lump of utter, utter shite.

[Pureblood]

Not much better.  He could barely buy a goal for Chelsea.  Until Rafa arrived, hah. 

[TheHowieLama]

Rafa>Torres

[Tony Moanero]

Rafa>Torres

Rafa > LFC

[TheHowieLama]

I dont support LFC FC

[Tony Moanero]

Yer Ma FC

[KMD7]

Rafa > LFC

 

Rafa> Everyone except Zlatan

[Dr. J]

Good thread, this. Another thing that comes to mind is all the disdain he suffered - he was our biggest signing, foreign, we were the biggest team in English football, etc., etc., he was really picked over in the press and on the pitch. How many elbows did defenders, especially Terry, plant in the back of his head. I recall one away game against Reading in the Milk Cup where it was just flat out affray against him. But he took it.

 

It's a trueism that money changed everything. Nobody harms investment anymore, certainly not the players against each other. How many hard, physical challenges has Martial endured? Or any of these other players piling in now that the money has broken the ceiling - everyone wants to feed at the trough. I guess the exception was McCarthy's thuggery against Payet but such things are increasingly rare. People exaggerated Flanagan's tackle against Sterling only because any physicality is disappearing.

 

Torres got hammered.

[aRdja]

People tried to bully Suarez. lol.

[El Dangerous]

Somebody typed "end of" a few pages back. Why is this thread still going?

[Em City]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rMXzGXnaa0

[Arl arse]

We had some of his best years, what a top class striker he was.

[Byrnie]

Good thread, this. Another thing that comes to mind is all the disdain he suffered - he was our biggest signing, foreign, we were the biggest team in English football, etc., etc., he was really picked over in the press and on the pitch. How many elbows did defenders, especially Terry, plant in the back of his head. I recall one away game against Reading in the Milk Cup where it was just flat out affray against him. But he took it.

 

It's a trueism that money changed everything. Nobody harms investment anymore, certainly not the players against each other. How many hard, physical challenges has Martial endured? Or any of these other players piling in now that the money has broken the ceiling - everyone wants to feed at the trough. I guess the exception was McCarthy's thuggery against Payet but such things are increasingly rare. People exaggerated Flanagan's tackle against Sterling only because any physicality is disappearing.

 

Torres got hammered.

Yep. He was a couple of levels below Suarez on the hatred meter, but he definitely wasn't liked at all. Taggart branded him a diver on a couple of occasions.

He'd be kicked about in some games and have defenders standing over him screaming at him afterwards.

[Tony Moanero]

Yep. He was a couple of levels below Suarez on the hatred meter, but he definitely wasn't liked at all. Taggart branded him a diver on a couple of occasions.

He'd be kicked about in some games and have defenders standing over him screaming at him afterwards.

He did get kicked an awful lot, but let's not kid ourselves, he did to go to ground rather easily. That's modern football for you.

[Mook]

He did get kicked an awful lot, but let's not kid ourselves, he did to go to ground rather easily. That's modern football for you.

I think the point was that Ferguson singled Torres out because he knew how good he was.

 

It's why they went for Suarez as well.

[ben48]

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It's why they went for Suarez as well.

Spot on mate there was no one in football more hatefull than that red nosed bastard.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Good thread, this. Another thing that comes to mind is all the disdain he suffered - he was our biggest signing, foreign, we were the biggest team in English football, etc., etc., he was really picked over in the press and on the pitch. How many elbows did defenders, especially Terry, plant in the back of his head. I recall one away game against Reading in the Milk Cup where it was just flat out affray against him. But he took it.

 

 

And he scored a hat-trick.

 

I think that was the night that we fully realised what we had on our hands.