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my main man! finally! here we go!!!
loved the cocky zlatan-esque celebration, dope.
(and as i mentioned before, this dude likes to score in blue shirts, all of his goals for chelsea were in the blue, except the CL semi-final game)
Keep it up mate!

no matter if you are a torres fan or not, you cannot help but to have a little admiration for the guy. always seems like a real person.
get well soon nando!

no matter if you are a torres fan or not, you cannot help but to have a little admiration for the guy. always seems like a real person.
get well soon nando!

no matter if you are a torres fan or not, you cannot help but to have a little admiration for the guy. always seems like a real person.
get well soon nando!

no matter if you are a torres fan or not, you cannot help but to have a little admiration for the guy. always seems like a real person.
get well soon nando!

no matter if you are a torres fan or not, you cannot help but to have a little admiration for the guy. always seems like a real person.
get well soon nando!

Eto'o has had three starts against Basel, Everton and Fulham and had one shot on target. Torres has made three starts against Bayern Munich, Swindon and Hull City - four shots on target, two goals, and an assist. His performances - particularly against Bayern - are far, far superior to what Eto'o has offered. That's why we're saying Torres should be the main striker at this moment in time. Goalscoring is about confidence, and two goals in three games is an excellent return from anyone.

So let me get this straight.
the man does his job (against a lower team, who cares) and he is slated. Yet if he didn't he would be slated as well.
shit, talk about an uphill battle. That isn't right.
IDC if he scores off of a mistake every weekend, a goal is a goal. And he has been in fine form. We haven't looked as good as we did against hull city and bayern. Then he gets dropped, we lose games, Torres somehow still gets blamed (idk how) and then he comes on and does his job and he is still "shit".
Chelsea logic.
I want a guy who has ambition and fight. Looks like mr el Nino is the only one with that at the moment.
but I guess this is why I'm not a manager.
just please Jose, please don't put that old bag of bones eto'o on the field this weekend against spurs. One good tackle and his bones will turn to dust. Hahaha jk!
keep up the work Torres, looking sharp.
go blues!

I have to agree, it's sad no one appreciates him when is he good. I think the will be great again. I know everyone was so happy for him against Bayern Munich, great goal. I know he can do it, just hope for the best

Totally agree some people are so bloody ignorant, we want him to do well score and he gets a cracker and still moaning. pathetic. Ah well everyone in this house gave have him the biggest cheer

really now?
he actually scores, looks great in link-up play and you guys still slate him?!?! WHAT?! this is madness.

believe it or not he is our best striker that fits in with what chelsea have to offer. is he the best striker we could have? no.

keep up the good work nando, and if you keep linking up play like you and scoring goals like this, WE ALL SHOULD HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO BUT GIVE THE MAN SOME CREDIT!!!
go blues!!

really now?
he actually scores, looks great in link-up play and you guys still slate him?!?! WHAT?! this is madness.

believe it or not he is our best striker that fits in with what chelsea have to offer. is he the best striker we could have? no.

keep up the good work nando, and if you keep linking up play like you and scoring goals like this, WE ALL SHOULD HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO BUT GIVE THE MAN SOME CREDIT!!!
go blues!!

I know it's been done a thousand times - but I'm still convinced the way we play makes it harder for a striker to shine.
If Eto'o comes in and fails to play it will be because he's washed up blah blah
Lets face it - the only striker to ever really settle in our team was Drogba and even then he had some off games
I think Torres will get much more chances with Schurrle and Hazard / Willian on the wings...
Even when he's playing for Spain - the midfield piss around too much and he just drops deep - his best (and only) position is on the shoulder of the last defender - with balls slid in behind or across. Give Torres too much time to think, he fucks it, let his natural instincts take over and he scores...
More whipped in balls and more through balls is needed - along with a higher tempo and that's not just for Torres - that's for Lukaku, BA and Eto'o ....

Credit where it is due, he played like a £50m striker in the first half. He played as well as anyone could have against that Bayern side, and worked tirelessly for the cause in the second half when things weren't going our way. He's not spent yet.

Blimey, talk about overreaction. He's just dedicating the goal to Mata for goodness sake.

Thank god Torres was not the one to miss the penalty.
Otherwise this forum would have imploded the fabric of space-time and cause the universe to unravel and cease to exist.

you guys spend more time talking shit about the guy than actually acknowledging that the man will be here for probably another year and hoping the best for him. whether you like him or not, i think you should WANT him to be firing in goals? no? pathetic.
well i wish torres and the rest of chelsea the best of luck this year. so stoked for this team!
go blues!

Finally somebody with some sense. Instead of moaning and arguing over petty things, and oh i am bothered that you single me out, lucky i dont care in the slightest.
My main point just as the above poster, was to just shut up about Fernando in a negative way and just wish him postitive things. However as i said too many rude posters on here.

you guys spend more time talking shit about the guy than actually acknowledging that the man will be here for probably another year and hoping the best for him. whether you like him or not, i think you should WANT him to be firing in goals? no? pathetic.
well i wish torres and the rest of chelsea the best of luck this year. so stoked for this team!
go blues!

These are some pretty rotten attitudes, god has he killed a member of your family?
No so stop with all this nonsense,
He is hardly the worst player in the world and if you think back, had he not scored that goal against Barcelona we would not have got through to the final of the Champions League?
I think he has been through alot, heavy pressure constantly weighing on his shoulders pretty much since he came to Chelsea, the merry go round of managers, all prodding him with a stick to get the 'best' of him. Yet every game, there is abuse from everyone, media, fans, about how sh** he is.
Surely people can't be so niave or cruel to believe that has not affected him from the beginning. In all honesty i think he is a quiet soul and it has been hard on him to get over the £50m price tag and once confidence is lost, it can be so difficult to get it back.
When recently there has been a number of programmes about footballers suffering depression and sadly even suicide, I think Fernando has dealt with these difficult years well and I just wish he continues to look positive, all this nonsense could easily drag someone very down.
I am still behind him and know he has it in him, if people, particularly media and a number of very fickle posters on here would just SHUT UP, perhaps that constant negative talk will not be heard inside him and he can find that wonderful striker inside I know he can be.

How about at least 4 golden chances created by Torres then? I guess you guys just choose to ignore them then.

He won us a penalty... He won us the free kick Lampard scored from... He created several chances for teammates through link up play.
How did he prove he was useless yesterday exactly? Because he didn't score?
I'm not a fan, but last game is hardly the one to point to for him being an absolute hack these days.

listen, IDGAF if he doesnt score ALL SEASON as long as we played like we did in the first half. you can tell some players just arent used to eachother (the whole squad has been together for barely a month).
just wait. torres or not, this is going to be a special year, you can see it. THAT is what we should be worried about. stop wasting your time.
he worked hard yesterday. so cheers nando. the flow will come.
so stoked for this new look chelsea.
(really want to see Lukaku and Torres together. i know torres would draw defenders off of Lukaku and vise-versa.)
but to end this rant. cant we just be ok with the squad? last time i checked none of you are the manager or owner of the team. so why dont we support ANYONE in a blue shirt.
Chelsea FC is better than that.
go blues!

Amazing after the good mood around the Bridge yesterday, the return of the Special One, a great goal for our greatest ever goalscorer and an easy win to kick off the season that some people can still find the bile and vitriol needed to have a pop at one of our players. Fucking pathetic.
Was it a vintage performance? No. But it was the first game of the season, he worked hard and did some good things. The fact that some people are bringing Sturridge up in this thread is fucking pathetic - are you guys not getting enough attention in the 'Oh look, Danny Sturridge scored so let's bring up the same old shit over and over and over again' thread?
Seriously.

Granted, and I see what the poster is saying. But Torres is Torres. We know he can't carve a slice of cake the same way Didier could: Fernando needs to be spoon-fed. That's the type of striker he is. But we knew that at the start of the season - Torres was our best striker; better than Ba and better than Sturridge. The fact he isn't able to cut the mustard every other game any more is a failing by the club to sign another forward after selling Anelka, Drogba and Kalou without replacing any of them. My point is we can lay the blame of Torres all we like, but was anybody blaming Drogba when we lost games in 2011/12 and he didn't do anything? Because, trust me, there was as many performances from Didier between 2011 and 2012 that were as bad as - actually, probably worse - than anything Torres has done for us. No-one likes it when people bad-mouth Drogba, but it seems to be fashionable to make out Torres is at fault for everything! It's a very ineffective analysis.