manpe 10,861 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 build them up ...knock them down ,,,the mantra of low class journalism.. Football suffers more from this than almost any other sport.The only ones who build themselves up and knock themselves down are the players themselves and a touch of good/bad luck. Negative journalism is a consequence not a cause, and it can turn into a bad circle because bad publicity doesn't help to build up confidence either. If he had turned out more efficient, then there would be none of this media bullshit. It can't come as a surprise that a €50m striker who's scored 1 goal will come under scrutiny in England. At the moment it's a worse case than it was with Sheva, he was much cheaper and scored more. Bottom line is that at the moment Torres is a flop, how I wish it wasn't true and I hope he can turn things around, but this bad spell will haunt him for a long time. And whoever flops, especially with such a price tag and with this reputation, tabloid junk will pick up on that... that's their bread. Football is a show, theatre and business. For us it's an entertaining show, for media it's business. Press won't shut themselves up, Torres has to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodojojo 510 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 http://www.sportyou.es/blog/home/noticia-portada/2011/09/08/fernando-torres-he-hecho-mucho-antes-y-despues-de-aquel-gol-a-alemania-363262.htmlNando did a long interview while on international duty. Hopefully his site will translate the interview as it sometimes does. If you can't wait, google translate is your friend. Very good bits about Chelsea. He brings up the same points about speed of Chelsea's game, integrating younger players and being more vertical. Very, very kind words about Sturridge. Tortilla9 and Term-X 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran. 6,317 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 http://www.sportyou....nia-363262.htmlNando did a long interview while on international duty. Hopefully his site will translate the interview as it sometimes does. If you can't wait, google translate is your friend. Very good bits about Chelsea. He brings up the same points about speed of Chelsea's game, integrating younger players and being more vertical. Very, very kind words about Sturridge.http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportyou.es%2Fblog%2Fhome%2Fnoticia-portada%2F2011%2F09%2F08%2Ffernando-torres-he-hecho-mucho-antes-y-despues-de-aquel-gol-a-alemania-363262.html Tortilla9 and Sheva. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post! Prodigy91 6 Posted September 8, 2011 Popular Post! Share Posted September 8, 2011 I still think Ancelotti's biggest mistake by far in his tenure here was how he bedded Torres in, it could litterally not have gone any worse if he fucking tried.You put him up in his debut against the club he just left on their home turf no less, you have 40k people that want to murder you constantly spitting hateful bile at you the entire game, you get elbow clothesline by your former teammate and get nothing.You get Subbed at 60 minutes for then Liverpool to score and the humiliation is complete.I'd defy Ancelotti to actually try do a worse job with that, as we all know strikers are creatures of confidence and in one fel swoop he destroyed every last shred of Torres'.Look at Mancini and how he bedded in Aguero that is how you introduce a new striker to the team, heck even fucking Liverpool did it right with Suarez. laura90, TomCFC, lecter and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
termninja 5,290 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 I still think Ancelotti's biggest mistake by far in his tenure here was how he bedded Torres in, it could litterally not have gone any worse if he fucking tried.You put him up in his debut against the club he just left on their home turf no less, you have 40k people that want to murder you constantly spitting hateful bile at you the entire game, you get elbow clothesline by your former teammate and get nothing.You get Subbed at 60 minutes for then Liverpool to score and the humiliation is complete.I'd defy Ancelotti to actually try do a worse job with that, as we all know strikers are creatures of confidence and in one fel swoop he destroyed every last shred of Torres'.Look at Mancini and how he bedded in Aguero that is how you introduce a new striker to the team, heck even fucking Liverpool did it right with Suarez.Carlo made 2 big mistakes imo.Starting the season with not enough squad depth and not giving Sturridge a chance. If he gave him a chance and Danny had shown what he did later at Bolton I think Chelsea/Roman's bank account would be 50m richer...what you mentioned could've been prevented... laura90 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortilla9 390 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 I still think Ancelotti's biggest mistake by far in his tenure here was how he bedded Torres in, it could litterally not have gone any worse if he fucking tried.You put him up in his debut against the club he just left on their home turf no less, you have 40k people that want to murder you constantly spitting hateful bile at you the entire game, you get elbow clothesline by your former teammate and get nothing.You get Subbed at 60 minutes for then Liverpool to score and the humiliation is complete.I'd defy Ancelotti to actually try do a worse job with that, as we all know strikers are creatures of confidence and in one fel swoop he destroyed every last shred of Torres'.Look at Mancini and how he bedded in Aguero that is how you introduce a new striker to the team, heck even fucking Liverpool did it right with Suarez.The game was actually at SB but everything else is right. The only thing that could have made it worse was if it had been played at Anfield. On FSC in the States they did an interview with John Henry, LFC owner, before the game and he was pretty much holier than thou how they were glad to be rid of Torres, etc etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolayes 14,489 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 The game was actually at SB but everything else is right. The only thing that could have made it worse was if it had been played at Anfield. On FSC in the States they did an interview with John Henry, LFC owner, before the game and he was pretty much holier than thou how they were glad to be rid of Torres, etc etc.worse thing was he had a great chance in the first few minutes ,,could even have played square for Drog .. IF ONLY ,,,everything mighthave been different ,,, the butterfly effect in Sci Fi ...SIGHS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran. 6,317 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 worse thing was he had a great chance in the first few minutes ,,could even have played square for Drog .. IF ONLY ,,,everything mighthave been different ,,, the butterfly effect in Sci Fi ...SIGHSIf only he had passed to Drogba...would have scored easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortilla9 390 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Shoulda - coulda - woulda. I think we've all experienced that in our lives. I've never done it with millions looking on thank God. I don't want to be like those damn scousers always living in the past, so forward, onward, and all that stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodojojo 510 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Look at Mancini and how he bedded in Aguero that is how you introduce a new striker to the team, heck even fucking Liverpool did it right with Suarez.Liverpool actually could have played Suarez in that game but held him out and debuted him in a smaller game where he scored a slightly lucky goal. Ancelotti should have started Torres against Fulham.Honestly, I wanted Torres to start against Liverpool but Ancelotti as the manager should have known better. It wasn't just Torres, Chelsea didn't have a player who could break down Liverpool playing 9-0-1 basically. Benayoun was still out and McEachran wasn't considered. Hopefully Sturridge and Mata will change that.Spilt milk and all. Hopefully Torres will slowly but surely recover and AVB will have the guys ready for revenge in November. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolayes 14,489 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Shoulda - coulda - woulda. I think we've all experienced that in our lives. I've never done it with millions looking on thank God. I don't want to be like those damn scousers always living in the past, so forward, onward, and all that stuff.of course but by such small margins are great results affected ,, Look up Ben Saunders at golf and you may understand the point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortilla9 390 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 of course but by such small margins are great results affected ,, Look up Ben Saunders at golf and you may understand the pointI completely agree with you but I'm personally making myself crazy looking at every past game and thinking he (and others) should have done this, or done that. Bottom line goals will shut up all the critics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesman2610 1,417 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 i think torres will benefit from mata and sturridge greatly..so i won't judge him as yet the next few games should give us a glimpse of the torres we as chelsea supporters are longing for.. eldo and nofreakingway 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolayes 14,489 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 I completely agree with you but I'm personally making myself crazy looking at every past game and thinking he (and others) should have done this, or done that. Bottom line goals will shut up all the critics.I have said it before Torres needs to be told ,,just get in the box and HIT the fucking ball ..stop thinking..thinking is the worst thing to do for for an instinctive striker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodojojo 510 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 I have said it before Torres needs to be told ,,just get in the box and HIT the fucking ball ..stop thinking..thinking is the worst thing to do for for an instinctive strikerTrue. He should do a Malouda and keep whacking the ball until it goes in. Surely, even Torres' luck can't preclude him from a lucky defection every now and then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortilla9 390 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 I have said it before Torres needs to be told ,,just get in the box and HIT the fucking ball ..stop thinking..thinking is the worst thing to do for for an instinctive strikerLOL Play the ball quickly to him so he doesn't have time to think whatever the hell is going on in his head, and like you say just react and hit the damn thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! dodojojo 510 Posted September 8, 2011 Popular Post! Share Posted September 8, 2011 In English, very nice. Madmax, Kostas, TomCFC and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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