Torres

[Trumo]

Ooh can I play this game too?

 

Joe Cole looks like he'd rather be anywhere but on the pitch right now.

 

 

Why are they wearing sports bras?

[JohnnyH]

Because they're all tits

[waiting game]

Because they're all tits

 

hahahaha

[AmerScouse]

i can't help but think that our current situation as a team and a club is reminiscient of the way atletico were when he decided to leave. and after 3 pretty successful years of champions league football and generally being a good team challenging for honors, we've gone pear shaped.

 

so the only question i'd ask is was torres acting the same way at atletico when he decided he was going? i didn't watch much la liga a few years back and when i did, atletico certainly wasn't the team being focused on.

[Pony Princess]

 

Look how his head is down, he looks like there is a raincloud above his head. He doesn't want to be here. He's lost before he's even kicked a ball.

 

If his body language is anything to go by, he'll be back off to Hundred Acre Wood come january.

[Joso]

 

Look how his head is down, he looks like there is a raincloud above his head. He doesn't want to be here. He's lost before he's even kicked a ball.

 

If his body language is anything to go by, he'll be back off to Hundred Acre Wood come january.

 

I gotta say; this is pretty genius.

[Alan Sex]

 

See how his face is looking down, not a sign of life in him? He obviously doesn't want to be there.

 

He is, however, hung like Ngog.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Hurray he's staying, he's never been happier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uh oh.

[Jules Winnfield]

he is too good for our current first team squad, he thinks faster than the rest and has to slow his game down. same with gerrard. fuck we need some money now

[Son of L8]

Hahaha... I'm almost tempted to bung Usher a few quid just so I can rep those posts.

 

Top work, Mr Atmosphere.

[coachpotato]

If a £50m offer came in for him from an overseas club in the summer should we sell him & use the money to rebuild?

 

We fucked up selling Alonso.

 

We fucked up selling Mascherano.

 

I know that they both went for reasons, arguably, that were non footballing reasons, but if we'd have had a better atmosphere and expectation around the club at the time maybe we'd still have them both here.

 

We can't carry on selling the only world class players we've got and expect to challenge and stay near to the top of the table.

 

NESV (or is it FSG now?) are going to have a hell of a job keeping Torres if the season carries on as it has been doing. Possibly Reina as well.

 

The PL is in such a state at the moment that we could still feasibly have a decent finish in the table and win one of two cups IF things change.

 

No matter how far away that might seem, it's still a possibility.

 

It's up to the decision makers at the club to act and ensure it has a good chance of happening. Unless they've already decided that this is a "write-off" season and they are prepared to take whatever comes our way with mid table mediocrity.

[norwichlfc]

Personally i think Torres is not interested at all now. He wants out and will play like this for the rest of the season. Mind you if Woy stays then Stevie G will follow Torres to (IMHO)

[StevieH]

Liverpool fear losing Fernando Torres to Carlos Tevez's butterfly effect

 

 

By Rory Smith Football Last updated: December 15th, 2010

3 Comments Comment on this article

 

Will Fernando Torres remain loyal to Liverpool? (Photo: PA)

 

If anything has been proven at all four days on from the dawn of Tevez-gate, it is that Carlos is more of a sensitive butterfly than his heart-on-sleeve, streetfighter demeanour suggested. Either he misses his family, spending his days pining for the sound of a child’s laughter, lashings of dulce de leche and a gourd of mate, or he dislikes Garry Cook (perhaps indicating he doesn’t like the sound of a child’s laughter all that much). Something, certainly, has put the game’s most delicate Argentinean butterfly into a multi-million pound flap. The question the rest of football must now ask is where the subsequent tornado will land.

 

Initial suggestions seem to be that it will be Wolfsburg, lair of Edin Dzeko, the Bosnian striker Manchester City have long coveted. More reticent observers have pointed that it may simply serve to blow the cobwebs away from Emmanuel Adebayor’s career. On Merseyside, though, there is a lingering fear that it will twist and twirl its way down the M62 and hit Anfield, seat of Fernando Torres.

 

The link between City and Torres first surfaced 18 months ago, perhaps more. Then, though, there was nothing to lure the striker, driven by medals more than money, to Eastlands, what with Liverpool having recently finished a close second to Manchester United and seemingly set to emerge as a genuine force once more. By last summer, much of that had changed, but still the striker remained unconvinced. Moving to Manchester would not have offered him Champions League football; whether Roberto Mancini would be able to craft a title-challenging side from his expensive raw materials remained uncertain.

 

Chelsea, to Torres, was always the more attractive option, though no substantive bid materialised. Liverpool, regardless, were determined to retain their most prized asset, eventually persuading him that the future was bright enough to endure the shadows of the present. He produced a statement pledging allegiance to the club, and the matter seemed to be resolved.

 

Fast forward five months and the certainty, the hope which infused Anfield at the news of Torres’s commitment has dissipated. If Tevez leaves, either in January or the summer, City will need a marquee signing to pacify fans and alleviate concerns that they cannot keep hold of the game’s biggest stars, that they remain forever cursed to stand on the outside looking in, the plebeian parvenus not invited to dine with the elite. Torres, more than Dzeko, fits that bill. A renewed attempt on his loyalty would come as no surprise.

 

In a season in which footballers’ reputation for fidelity has taken more of a battering than ever before, that Torres may not finish his career at Anfield is hardly a shock. That Anfield may not feel the hurt it once would have done at such a prospect is, perhaps, somewhat more startling.

 

Torres will face Utrecht tonight but he is comparatively unlikely to hear his name sung or see his legions of fans bouncing in his honour. They used to. Not any more. It would be easy to observe that there could be no starker evidence that supporters are no less fickle than players these days, that a few good performances from Torres would have his public genuflecting before him once more. It is an unfair assessment. More than his lack of form, it is Torres’s lack of heart that is beginning to stir the first signs of disapproval from those who see him every week.

 

It is telling that, in his statement to the Daily Telegraph today, Tevez’s “advisor” Kia Joorabchian was at pains to stress that his “client” would not dream of offering anything less than his full effort every time he trained with or played for City, despite “his” desire to leave. Joorabchian knows what fans value. They can stand poor form or rotten luck, so long as application is evident. With Torres, it is not. He looks like he has had enough, like he has given up. Anfield will not tolerate such an attitude, not for long.

 

Here, then, another note of caution that Joorabchian might be able to tip Torres’s way. Rooney’s brand and Tevez’s brand, both such money-spinning ventures, have been affected by their transfer sagas; they were, after all, dressed up as the urchins who would play for free if they needed to. They won’t, it turns out, not by a long chalk. Ditto Torres: he has been marketed as the boy next door superstar, the shy, unassuming kid from Fuenlabrada with the world at his feet. That image, no less than his fans’ patience, withers with every sullen glance, every halted run. Move from Anfield on a low note and he will seem more of a mercenary than is good for business. That is the thing with a butterfly effect: its outcome tends to be chaotic.

 

Liverpool fear losing Fernando Torres to Carlos Tevez's butterfly effect – Telegraph Blogs

[Malarkey]

It's only a matter of time before the Times crew get a grip of this story.

 

#CHINABUYSLIVERPOOL

[Funkasy]

cant blame him leaving, i can only imagine he has been promised so many things (new improved players) over the last two years and none of them have come true.

 

He wants to fight for trophies at liverpool, but i cant see us winning any trophies before there is a new manager and some improvement on the wings.

[Guest San Don]

That article by smith seems to be laying the foundations of preparing us fans that Torres will be allowed to leave.

 

I just wonder what sort of 'promise' was given to Torres to give this season a go. Was it a 'we'll let you leave' like mascherano was supposed to have been given when he wanted out 2 seasons ago.

[The Dude Abides]

Rory Smith might be a good bloke and all that but some of his articles aren't half a load of old shite sometimes.