Henri

Love it too :541:

It tell`s more than 1000 words!.

Agree, he got really BIG balls now, or maybe he has come to a point saying, i do it my way, and you can give me the highway, i don`t care anymore?. So let`s see how long he waits before he brings Torres?.

Great poem, a hidden poet under the surface

The title has a mission, too catch your attention,stupid or not deal done.

Me too, that`s not the point!.

Triball: True, but still i find it interesting that its not typical joynalist but a female poets point of view!.

Save his career for a couple of games?, for me its sadly how we respect a truely legend of this club?. If i was the owner i would keep the man until he tould me he will stop, just out of respect for what he has done for Chelsea!.

Sadly i agree with her, mostely http://tribalfootbal...chelsea-1581551 Fernando Torres: Too good to play for Chelsea? 20.04.11 | tribalfootball.com After their Champions League exit, award winning American poet Jennifer Juneau investigates Fernando Torres' troubles at Chelsea and whether he is suited to the Blues. As usual, at the start of the match we were annoyingly reminded once again that Fernando Torres, who Paul Hayward in The Guardian referred to as "a 50m pound expression of Roman Abramovich's power over team selection" has yet to score for Chelsea. The pressure for this expression to score is tremendous. After all, he was the tool chosen to fix Chelsea into clenching the Champions League title. The question on many people's minds is—Why? Over-analysis on the Torres saga has over-stayed its welcome, and yet we continue to ask, Why? And why do we demand to know? Why hasn't anyone put the issue to rest and let it be what it is: Torres has lost his spark, the success of his youth is behind him. But the topic remains: Who is to blame and what will it take to get him back? When he hadn't been doing well in his last season at Anfield, the explanation was that he just wasn't happy at Liverpool. But in retrospect he hadn't done well in the World Cup either alongside his Spain teammates, so that erases the fact that he fell into a scoring slump at Liverpool because he just wasn't happy. Then we were handed the explanation that he was coming off of an injury. He'd been coming off that injury for too long. Then we heard he had homesickness. None of it flies and none of it catches. The Ancelotti - Abrahmovich Factor If Torres was not suited to fix Chelsea into winning the title, at least Chelsea should be suited to fix Torres into adapting to the team. So far I'm not convinced. The more Ancelotti rants that he has faith Torres will come around and end his scoring drought, the less convincing he is. We often hear enough in the press that Ancelotti believes in Torres, that it's only a matter of time but the thing is, do we believe in Ancelotti? He may very well be the problem. He didn't select Torres to play for the team, Abramovich did, Ancelotti was taking his orders from the top. In fact, not too long ago it was published in the Daily Mail that Ancelotti said he had no interest in signing Torres after his World Cup disaster. Far be it from Ancelotti to argue with Abramovich that he was throwing a wrench into his Drogba-Anelka dream combination. He may have ended up sacked, like Jose Mourinho for speaking his mind—although at least Mourinho's dignity is intact and ironically his team, Real Madrid, may very well win the Champions League, setting a record for Mourinho to be the only manager to win three Champions League titles with three different leagues. And everybody hates Mourinho—except, of course, his players. What is more important? To be miserable under a colossal weight of pressure and displace it onto your team only to lose? Or to stand up for what you believe, move on and win? If Ancelotti's side keeps failing, he'll be fired anyway so what's he got to fear? RTE's Eamon Dunphy pointed out that Abramovich should have empowered his manager with trust and said, "Here's 50m pounds, do what you can with it." Without a voice in the process, Ancelotti was forced to bow to the owner's wishes. How can one have the ease to integrate a player into a team that doesn't want him? RTE's trio of commentators had a lot to say on the subject. First of all, as Dunphy pointed out, if Torres had the confidence, he wouldn't have fumbled so much but flicked the ball right over the goal line on several occasions, making the feat seem effortless. According to them, Torres took the cloud he was under at Liverpool and placed it over Chelsea upon his arrival. The Torres – Drogba Connection Perhaps the most irksome circumstance of all is the forced duo of Torres and Drogba. It has been clear that Drogba and Torres do not mix and if they ever click the Champions League will be long over—then what? When the two are played together, the frustration on Ancelotti's face matches Torres's frustration on the pitch. In the April 6 match it was noted that as Torres dribbled the ball down the field, Ramires and Drogba were slow to react leaving Torres with no one to cross the ball to and it fell at the feet of United. The only positive move Ancelotti made the whole evening was to keep Torres in the full ninety minutes instead of substituting him. Against the grain of every other viewer on Earth, I believe he did the right thing. It's his job as manager to install confidence in his new striker and up until now he hasn't done so. Much to everyone's chagrin, fans, commentators, newspapers alike, Drogba should never have been taken out in the 70TH minute. Eamon Dunphy referred to it as "a Drogba sacrifice to integrate Torres." But how do they expect Torres to find his form when he doesn't have any opportunity to play a full game? Why Ancelotti continues on playing the two together is a mystery. They're as much in sync as Ancelotti is with Abramovich. Their lack of chemistry has been the elephant in the room since January. Fans watch and they want to believe the connection between the two strikers will be electrifying. Drogba has denied allegations that a Torres move wasn't welcome by him and that he felt his position was threatened. No matter what he says or however hard he thinks he tries, on the pitch he has left Torres wide open numerous times having decided to take it solo with the ball ending up in the stands. In the 65TH minute of the April 6 game, this is exactly what Drogba did. On two occasions during the match it was embarrassing to see Torres's desperation rear its head in the form of a dive, in which he received a yellow card. Ferdinand refused to let him go down without a fight. The best response could have been for Torres to get angry and play with a vengeance, to score and stop United in their tracks—he's done it before. Instead it was the reverse with him appearing more emotionally beaten than ever. The Pressure of a Price Tag Enough already. It's not the fact that Torres went for 50m pounds, it's the fact that people won't let the guy live it down. Get over it. The deal is done. It's yesterday's news. He's paid the price back in criticism from the press and backlash from his fans. Not one day in the newspaper or one Chelsea match goes by when his price tag hasn't been thrown in his face. It's true that Liverpool got two for the price of one with the signings of Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll. What's most important is that Liverpool received two extraordinary players who were hungry for success, who wanted to play for Liverpool despite their monetary value. If either one of those players had 50m pounds waved in front of them they would have grabbed it too—along with the eternal debt of pressure and possibly demise.

The problem is not the manager, its the owner. No matter who`s gonna be coach, he will have a time limited from the beginning. For the first time i agree with something coming from Arsenal, well ex Arsenal: http://tribalfootball.com/articles/arsenal-legend-wright-chelsea-have-no-chance-abramovich-interfering-1579401

Same start team, Never change a winning team.

He should be on the bench rest of the season if like now he don`t perform, i would not even had give him 9 minutes. Why change a winning team?. This is not about Torres this is about Chelsea!. Drogba, Malouda and Kalou did perform they should start next game. On almost every team on this planet you have to fight for your right to play, so next time Drogba and co. don`t perform ( he has scored 3 times now). bring Torres. This is no kindergarten, Carlo can`t nurse that poor Toores out of sympathy, perform or bench, that easy. And i don`t hate Torres see my avatar.

:goodpost: You really got some good points. The problem is really that we all think we are some kind of born mini Morinhos by playing football manager, lol, mostly we don`t know shit but we all love this club. But for god sack let there be space to discuss, and with just a little bit of irony we don`t have to take it that personal, except this word= plastic fan, makes me

And i`m sickening of your plastic fan bullshit.

Come on!, If you sleep with the devil, your sooner or later has to to fuck him. nobody is gonna piss him off, nobody!.

ITS NOT THE COACH, ITS THE F..... TEAM! , sorry :unsure:

Nani is Portugese, the ref. was from spain.

Lets just finish this shit season in top 4, and CL win forget it, its never gonna happen with this team.

Okey, we aint gonna bench him, we gonna sell him. I dont follow the masses to say it aint true, Abramovich is man of action so let se what happens.

or at least don`t let him start in for the rest of the season. Don`t get me wrong i like Torres, he is or was one of the best strikers to set foot on this planet. But how stupid does Abramovich/Carlo think Drogba and Anelka or even Malouda are?. Look at them play and the answer is clear, they know that Nando is the future and they are the past, and how would you have reacted?. I blame Abramovich for not waiting for the summer break to buy Torres, out of respect for them. Together Drogba and Anelka can perform at least some times, but they will never connect with Torres. So why keep on frustrating him and them until the end of the season?, because he won`t score before you build a team up around him. This story tells a lot why often january transfer ain`t no good.

The only problem is that here at Chelsea we dont have a player like Gerrard who serves every possible ball to Torres, he would be running like a blind chicken chasen corn, yes i know, Even a blind chicken gets a kernel of corn, still its doomed to fail.

Torres,Drogba,Anelka, Malouda, who cares?, we got Luiz back on the field to show them how its done I know, it ain`t funny.

Less important?!, you gotta be kidding me?, we need every point to be sure to stay in top 4, this game is very important!.

You all sounds like a bunch of whimpering wifes!. Yes we played bad, but it aint over jet!. So lets fight and win 2-0 at Old Trafford!. Come on Blues :cfc: