Daniel Sturridge

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We are never going to make that investment work - Torres will go down as the biggest flop in English Football and we would have ended up selling the next big thing because we were trying to get the best out of a player who is barely good enough to be first choice in the Championship.

In 6 months Sturridge has three less goals in the EPL than Torres has in two and a half years.

Torres - 83 appearance 15 goals

Sturridge - 16 appearances 12 goals

Until that car crash of a signing is still at the club and we have not got a striker banging goals in consistently you best just stay away from this thread

Do you know the great thing about 'next big things' - there's always a next one, and in Romelu Lukaku there's a strong case to be made that he's it considering he's about three years younger than Sturridge.

Fans like you can continue taking a pop at Torres and that's fair enough - there will always be people around to go for the low-hanging fruit but I personally don't understand how that's fun. We're a club going places, and the enjoyable thing from my perspective is to enjoy the ride.

Constantly living in the past has never been for me, and it's a very Liverpool thing to do. Not having a pop at you but if you like Sturridge and living in the past then there are other clubs that better serve those things.

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Do you know the great thing about 'next big things' - there's always a next one, and in Romelu Lukaku there's a strong case to be made that he's it considering he's about three years younger than Sturridge.

Fans like you can continue taking a pop at Torres and that's fair enough - there will always be people around to go for the low-hanging fruit but I personally don't understand how that's fun. We're a club going places, and the enjoyable thing from my perspective is to enjoy the ride.

Constantly living in the past has never been for me, and it's a very Liverpool thing to do. Not having a pop at you but if you like Sturridge and living in the past then there are other clubs that better serve those things.

Three years ago Sturridge was banging goals in at Bolton - scored more than Torres;Drogba and Anelka combined while out on loan.

I'm not taking a pop I'm stating facts. Find anything that I've said about Torres that isn't true.

We still need a striker, so it's not the past - it will be the past when we actually have a striker banging goals in on a consistent basis until then we can talk about Lewa; Rooney; Sturridge; etc.

So no I'm not talking about the past I'm talking about the present.

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Three years ago Sturridge was banging goals in at Bolton - scored more than Torres;Drogba and Anelka combined while out on loan.

I'm not taking a pop I'm stating facts. Find anything that I've said about Torres that isn't true.

We still need a striker, so it's not the past - it will be the past when we actually have a striker banging goals in on a consistent basis until then we can talk about Lewa; Rooney; Sturridge; etc.

Well you enjoy that. Personally I'm not of the opinion that we need a striker 'banging in the goals on a consistent basis'. When you have talent throughout the team like we do then I think you need a facilitator more than anything. You don't get more points for a goal if your striker scores it than if your left-winger does.

Like I said, I'm not disputing what you've said about Torres but he still pulls the shirt on every week so I don't see why people constantly feel the need to abuse him. But then there's a few things about certain supporters that confounds me nowadays.

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Well you enjoy that. Personally I'm not of the opinion that we need a striker 'banging in the goals on a consistent basis'. When you have talent throughout the team like we do then I think you need a facilitator more than anything. You don't get more points for a goal if your striker scores it than if your left-winger does.

Like I said, I'm not disputing what you've said about Torres but he still pulls the shirt on every week so I don't see why people constantly feel the need to abuse him. But then there's a few things about certain supporters that confounds me nowadays.

I'm not abusing Torres, I'm saying the facts about him since he was signed there has not been a single match I would comfortably say he has played at a World Class level. He was not signed to score against Genk; Leicester; Nordsjaelland; QPR; Monterray; Wolves etc. He was bought to be scoring against United; City; Tottenham; Liverpool; Arsenal on constant basis - managed two goals against those teams in over a dozen matches.

He is not good enough and I do wonder whether you defended Sturridge; Kalou; Malouda; Bosingwa while they were at the club, I could go and check but I'm afraid of what I will find out - especially when looking at the type of abuse you throw around at fellow members of the forum.

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I'm not abusing Torres, I'm saying the facts about him since he was signed there has not been a single match I would comfortably say he has played at a World Class level. He was not signed to score against Genk; Leicester; Nordsjaelland; QPR; Monterray; Wolves etc. He was bought to be scoring against United; City; Tottenham; Liverpool; Arsenal on constant basis - managed two goals against those teams in over a dozen matches.

He is not good enough and I do wonder whether you defended Sturridge; Kalou; Malouda; Bosingwa while they were at the club, I could go and check but I'm afraid of what I will find out - especially when looking at the type of abuse you throw around at fellow members of the forum.

I can't remember posting much about those players, but you're willing to look.

BTW, we've just confirmed the signing of Willian.

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Well you enjoy that. Personally I'm not of the opinion that we need a striker 'banging in the goals on a consistent basis'. When you have talent throughout the team like we do then I think you need a facilitator more than anything. You don't get more points for a goal if your striker scores it than if your left-winger does.

Like I said, I'm not disputing what you've said about Torres but he still pulls the shirt on every week so I don't see why people constantly feel the need to abuse him. But then there's a few things about certain supporters that confounds me nowadays.

Even though I agree with the opinion that we don't need a striker banging in goals on a consistent basis....

We do need a quality striker, capable of scoring that winning goal in a tight match with limited chances....and currently, none of our strikers look capable of completing that task.

Letting go of Sturridge was a mistake and until a certain flop of a striker leaves the club, this thread will get posts for every goal he scores at LFC.

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has we put the "buy out" clause when selling him??? another Torres victim's....

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I don't know if RDM actually wanted to start Torres in all those games...but Roman promised him the starting striker role and that's exactly what he got.

Sturridge, what else can you say...gifted young striker, just needed confidence and game-time. Easily capable of scoring 20 goals a season

Seemed the same with Sheva...crap but yet got games despite being so poor in those games.Needed confidence and game time,didnt get it with us.Made the right choice in his career to move as he'd probably spent more time on the bench.Annoying that its happened annoying that made a massive mistake but to late just bleehhh....

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I never quite got why we pretty much gave him away. I thought he was a good player, watching MOTD and seeing him score good goal for Liverpool.

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if people dont wanna talk about sturridge then why cant the FUCK they just stay off the STURRIDGE THREAD, because surprisingly in the sturridge thread people are going to talk about sturridge, just like in the mata thread we talk about mata, or in the hazard thread we talk about hazard.

also please should stop with the same old "why dont some members FUCK OFF to the RAWK" joke because its not funny and its got too old.

my suggestion is if you dont wanna talk about sturridge then STAY THE FUCK OUT. no one mentioned you in their posts, and thus its not NECESSARY of you to post something and tell other members to FUCK OFF to liverpool forums.

Couldnt agree more. The problem is that people have made up in their mind that they didnt like/dont like him as a player nor person. Stuff such as selfish and bad attitude is what people use to describe him. Yet, when you look at him play in Liverpool, where he is apprichiated, gets what he deserves etc; that is simply not what he is like.

I never quite got why we pretty much gave him away. I thought he was a good player, watching MOTD and seeing him score good goal for Liverpool.

Because of Torres.

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Because of Torres.

What was his camp saying when the club approached them about a contract extension?

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What was his camp saying when the club approached them about a contract extension?

Enlighten me.

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Enlighten me.

So you don't know? I assumed you did because you said he left because of Torres.

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So you don't know? I assumed you did because you said he left because of Torres.

What would you expect his camp to say?

He was sitting on the bench, whilst a past-it striker got opportunity, after opportunity to impress...

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So you don't know? I assumed you did because you said he left because of Torres.

What would you expect his camp to say?

He was sitting on the bench, whilst a past-it striker got opportunity, after opportunity to impress...

This. AND played our of position when he actually got some playtime.