Blue Armour 4,439 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Really odd you say this being that Torres has been our creative spark for almost 3/4 of the season..........Nope. francozola 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollingPapers 194 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Is there any chance we may sell this guy? Like seriously hes only scored 4 goals at his time here, ridiculous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Another average game from him. Talks of him being back recently is obviously premature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 4,400 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 lol funny thread. He plays well, has 2 assists and a goal so he's back. Then the bastard goes n plays awfully in 2 successive games and he's awful. Tbh tho, he'll probably never be consistently back to his good ol' self. Might have a few sparks here n there but that's probably about it. manpe and Kostas 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,439 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Another average game from him. Talks of him being back recently is obviously premature.Hardly a surprise after the duration of his previous slump.....he's obviously going to blow hot and cold from now on, unless the team itself undergoes a dramatic upheaval in form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wxgba 306 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Regardless of the strikers ability, it's almost impossible to score goals regularly without good service. I'm not saying that he'd suddenly start firing them in like there's no tomorrow, but given the right service he would be much more of a threat. Without Mata on the pitch, there's no-one capable of that creative spark. We're void of out-and-out wingers leaving us extremely narrow, thus leaving Torres feeding off scraps. People really need to stop with these knee-jerk reactions, though. One minute 'Fernando's back!', the next it's 'Sell him he's useless!'. Although his form has been a little erratic lately, he's often proved to be our most influential player and deserving of that starting place up top. It's very easy to jump on the bandwagon calling for his head, but Fernando's goal-scoring form ought to be the least of our worries right now. There's plenty of other problems that need addressing; such as the formation, strength in depth and some wingers willing to hug the touchline and cross the ball! tmessy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! Madmax 9,219 Posted April 10, 2012 Popular Post! Share Posted April 10, 2012 Don't know about you guys, but Torres is the absolute least of our worries at this moment and going forward. francozola, nullabletype, Bosnian Blue and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Fernando, the one & only prolific goal scorer of bombastic magnitude.7 goals for 50m = amazing, one could say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLion. 21,491 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Haha was watching that, that was against Villa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOULO19 24,332 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 ^^Mata kneeling down is almost as tall as Mata standing up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Las7 951 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Don't know about you guys, but Torres is the absolute least of our worries at this moment and going forward.I feel about Torres the same way I feel about Sheva. Needless transfers not really managerial choices that made us miss out on players who would have made us a lot better in the case of Torres we missed out on Modric and in the case of Sheva it was Daniel Alves. So to me it's not so much how awful Torres has been for over an year but rather how it was a completely wasteful considering in the case with Torres we had Sturridge who had barely played and was send out on loan after a whooping 13 games mostly as a substitute in the League while in games he started like in the FA he had shown enough quality to be though off as a striker here at Chelsea. While with Sheva it was even stranger cause we had an inform Drogba who had difficulty working with other strikers but had developed an almost telepathic understanding with an inform Lampard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmax 9,219 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 I feel about Torres the same way I feel about Sheva. Needless transfers not really managerial choices that made us miss out on players who would have made us a lot better in the case of Torres we missed out on Modric and in the case of Sheva it was Daniel Alves.We bid £40 mil for Modric and it was turned down, how is that any way connected to Torres? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Las7 951 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 We bid £40 mil for Modric and it was turned down, how is that any way connected to Torres?It's connected because we would have made our first approach in the winter, it would have been turned down Modric would have had a strop like he did at the start of the season and in the summer we would have been in a better bargaining position. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmax 9,219 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Pssh. You assume too much. Manuf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 What i do find baffling is why we gave Torres 180k a week.He took a pay cut to go to Liverpool and turned down City's offer of 250k a week so he is clearly not money driven, so why couldn't we have just offered his same wages at Liverpool maybe a bit more. If this more was about ambition like he claims then surely he wouldn't have said no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francozola 2,040 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 What i do find baffling is why we gave Torres 180k a week.He took a pay cut to go to Liverpool and turned down City's offer of 250k a week so he is clearly not money driven, so why couldn't we have just offered his same wages at Liverpool maybe a bit more. If this more was about ambition like he claims then surely he wouldn't have said no?How much was he on at Liverpool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jype 6,398 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 How much was he on at Liverpool?80k a week I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Las7 951 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Pssh. You assume too much.I do know that Torres's transfer was in the works well before the winter transfer window and we exhausted all possible options before actually Liverpool settled with a 50 million transfer fee. If that type of energy was used to try to secure a creative attacking midfielder or a right winger - our creativity problems might have been addressed adequately last winter whether we signed Modric or someone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,439 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Don't know about you guys, but Torres is the absolute least of our worries at this moment and going forward.I don't know about any priorities but he's definitely a cause for worry. He plays very well against generally weaker opposition and creates an impression that he's back in form, and falters a couple of games later. I just hope he doesn't last here longer than he needs to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnmontero 78 Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 The problem with Torres, if you look at his goals at liverpool, is that he is a striker that needs good passes, long balls, etc to score. Unlike Drogba that forces his way to the goal and without a proper playmaker we can't make him work the way we expect him to, he is not a defense pusher, he is a defense dribbler.If you compare Torres with Drogba you will see the difference, Drogba is a premier league striker strong, while Torres is a spanish league striker with a lot of pace, why do you think Torres started to stink as soon as Benitez was sacked and Alonso and company got sold? Benitez' era Liverpool was a Spanish playing style club. If we want Torres to succeed we need to leave the English playing style and start playing like in La Liga, short passes, long balls, counter attacking and etc, didn't you see his last goal at Aston Villa? Counter-attack and goal.We need to bring a spanish playmaker to play with Torres, who understands how to pass the ball to him. Then we will make him work, or well forget about Torres and just give Dany a chance. tmessy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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