Torres mega-thread

[Vivaldo]

I think he'll go =(

 

Who the fuck can we get in if he does?

[Mustangt125]

Who the fuck are kopsource?

 

no clue i hate all the twitter shit i just found it

[Red Phoenix]

Rory Smith - Club have confirmed that Torres has expressed his wish to leave. Hope that meets your requirements.

 

Maybe he's just fucking with the owners? Maybe he's brinking it until we sign a couple more players? Who knows.

[Vivaldo]

If this is true,feel like ive just caught my lass getting shafted off someone else

 

This is more like being shafted by two men. 1 in a gimp mask with an ultra small willy.

[waiting game]

Kopsource

 

We are hearing that Torres will end all speculation and commit to the club tomorrow

 

 

Kippy2011

 

@LFCTransferSpec Reporter on LFCTV said he feels Torres will commit to LFC tomorrow live on LFCTV Matthew Smith

 

rorysmith_tel Rory Smith

Oh good. Within seconds this time. Club have confirmed that Torres has expressed his wish to leave. Hope that meets your requirements. #LFC

 

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Rory Smith

rorysmith_tel Rory Smith

Torres has, indeed, told #LFC he would like to move to Chelsea. No formal transfer request. #LFC adamant he's not for sale.

[Evil_Ways]

Well, my feeling is if Torres have said he wants to leave for Chelsea now, tell him no.

Simple as that.

[Vivaldo]

Maybe he's just fucking with the owners? Maybe he's brinking it until we sign a couple more players? Who knows.

 

Would he really play that game of chess?

[redsoxs]

Exclusive

 

Bleacher Report: City are Entering the race for Torres.

 

Fernando Torres Hands in Transfer Request and Demands Move This Window | Bleacher Report

 

 

FFS.... they Really are makes it up as go along, they have FUCK ALL.

[Skully]

Apologies if already been posted

 

Tony Barrett

1 minute ago

By signing Luis Suárez for a club-record fee, Liverpool intended to do two things — give Fernando Torres the top-class strike partner he has been crying out for and prove to the Spain forward that their ambition matches his own.

 

The question now, after Torres informed Liverpool of his desire to leave Anfield yesterday, is whether they will appear in the same team.

 

Having wanted to leave Liverpool last summer only for his desire to be left unfulfilled by Chelsea’s inability to come up with the kind of offer that would tempt the Merseyside club to do business, Torres’s longing for a transfer has intensified during a season in which Liverpool have failed to live up to his and their aspirations.

 

The Torres camp has long seen Chelsea as the ideal destination for a player who has been coveted by Roman Abramovich for the past two seasons. Chelsea’s owner sees him as the key that can unlock the door to the Champions League success he craves. That is why the move for Torres has been made now; Abramovich wants to win the competition this season, before Chelsea’s ageing squad is broken up.

 

The other prime motive for Chelsea’s interest being hardened now is that Abramovich is hoping to avoid having to meet the £50 million release clause in Torres’s contract that will be activated at the end of the season if, as expected, Liverpool fail to qualify for the Champions League. There is also the small matter of Manchester City, Torres’s other long-time suitor, who would be ready to move in the summer and provide a challenge that Abramovich might not be able to match.

 

Torres’s yearning to leave is fuelled by a belief that Liverpool are not the same club as the one that he joined in July 2007. He feels that the damage done by Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr, the former owners, will take several years or a spending spree unprecedented by Liverpool’s standards to make them competitive again.

 

The Spaniard also feels that he has been let down by a series of promises not being kept and saw this season as the final chance for Liverpool to live up to his expectations. Seventh place in the Barclays Premier League was not what he envisaged.

 

The Torres problem is one that was inherited by Fenway Sports Group (FSG), which has owned Liverpool only since October. It did not insert the clause in his contract — that was done by Christian Purslow, the club’s former managing director — nor did it spark the spiral of decline that has pushed Torres to the Anfield exit door. FSG has shown a mixture of ambition and prudence in conducting the Suárez deal.

 

But Torres was looking to FSG to go on the kind of recruitment drive during January that would convince him to stay, as John W. Henry II, Liverpool’s principal owner acknowledged when he admitted that certain players “would prefer a quick fix”. Henry will be particularly disappointed with Torres’s decision.

 

The move for Suárez for a fee that could rise to £22.8 million was intended to be a statement of FSG’s intent, an indication that they are ready and willing to compete at the top end of the transfer market.

 

But with Torres making clear his intention to leave and Chelsea’s interest in the World Cup winner intensifying despite their opening offer being rebuffed, it is likely that even a club record purchase might prove too little, too late for Liverpool to keep El Niño.

[piscinin]

Would he really play that game of chess?

 

No. His agent would though. His agent did a pretty good job of extricating him from Atletico without an enormous amount of ill-will.

[Vivaldo]

Well, my feeling is if Torres have said he wants to leave for Chelsea now, tell him no.

Simple as that.

 

and what do we achieve by doing that? Motivate him to score 20 goals from now to the end of the season? If he wants to go find a replacement quickly and sell him for the highest possible price!

[Adebisi]

Remember gang, not one of these so called fucking journalists knew Suarez would happen. Despite their "sources"

 

And yet they all apparently know Torres is off? How does that work?

[waiting game]

and what do we achieve by doing that? Motivate him to score 20 goals from now to the end of the season? If he wants to go find a replacement quickly and sell him for the highest possible price!

 

Who are you going to find in 3days to replace Torres? The Suarez deal took over 2 weeks!

[Nathanzx]

I am hearing Oyston has made a last minute effort to hijack the torres to chelsea deal.....Holloway has authorised him to offer us Adam in exchange for Torres plus 4.5 million

 

 

on a serious note I am seriously disappointed how all this has played out, we fannied about in the transfer market for 2 or 3 weeks making lowball bids.......we need to make serious statements of intent and sign 3 or 4 highly rated players to really make a go of having a late charge at the champions league, we did nothing of the sort, unsurprising as NESV have no knowledge of the transfer market and no CEO in place, while all that inertia and incompetence was going on Torres obviously decided enough was enough and started to negotiate his way out of here

 

the really disappointing thing is the devious way we have finally stumped up for Suarez on the day it has become apparent that Torres is on his way, that really is an insult to our intelligence and a quite deceitful and Machievellian maneouvre in terms of sweetening our fans and making Nando look bad...why didn't we get the done a few week ago and get a few others while we were at it? We messed about for too long and only have ourselves (the men in charge, henry, werner, ayre, comolli, shame on you - thought the days of shambolic decision-makers were over)

 

all in all i feel very let down by those with liverpool's future in their hands today, scheming ahd spinning to the fans has no place at our club...........buy good players, don't fuck about and keep the players that are good at the club, it really shouldn't be that hard to do but as usual we have messed up

[Guest the boy]

he was poor last season too. He nay not have had much time for Roy, but he had less for Rafa last year. If he goes, it would be silly to put all the blame on Hodgson.

 

Here it comes!

 

Stats, naturally, tell a different story.

[Red Phoenix]

Would he really play that game of chess?

 

Maybe. Or maybe he really hates Chelsea and is just having a laugh on a friday night.

[Phoenix]

 

The other prime motive for Chelsea’s interest being hardened now is that Abramovich is hoping to avoid having to meet the £50 million release clause in Torres’s contract that will be activated at the end of the season if, as expected, Liverpool fail to qualify for the Champions League.

 

 

How does this work? Surely if we are not looking to sell, it would be easier for them to buy him in summer when the release clause gets activated. Why would be accept anything less now in mid season?

[chris71]

Remember gang, not one of these so called fucking journalists knew Suarez would happen. Despite their "sources"

 

And yet they all apparently know Torres is off? How does that work?

 

Keep throwing shit till some bit sticks.

[Coro]

I'm sorry mate, I do not know you, but that is a load of shite.

 

 

 

It's not though, is it.

 

Maybe you'll have a better grasp of my point once you've put the pitchfork down.

[Vivaldo]

Who are you going to find in 3days to replace Torres? The Suarez deal took over 2 weeks!

 

Maybe so, but what are we going to get by keeping a player of his ability in the squad wanting to leave?

[Evil_Ways]

and what do we achieve by doing that? Motivate him to score 20 goals from now to the end of the season? If he wants to go find a replacement quickly and sell him for the highest possible price!

 

No, but we simply make a fuckin point.

I would not have blamed Torres one bit if he had left this summer, or if he's going the coming summer. But now, when we need him the most i just feel sick about it.

[Beantown Red]

So when these new financial rules come about in the future, will all players be worth less since clubs will not be able to spend money they do not have?

[el nino laff]

 

I just heard he's staying, doesn't want to go and the clause is as real as santa.

 

now do you believe me?

[Chinandeler Bong]

So he's off then.

 

Gutted.

[Vivaldo]

Maybe. Or maybe he really hates Chelsea and is just having a laugh on a friday night.

 

That'd be fucking great but I don't think that is happening do you?

 

When ever we played Chelsea he always seemed to have a really problem with the Mong Terry, I couldn't really see him playing in the same team as him.

 

Fucking Chelsea out of all people. I really really do hope he sleeps on this and realises that he was a tit for even considering it. (If true of course)