Fernando Torres

[Waterfall 893]

Can you blame the writers for finding Torres story fascinating? He's only one of the most expensive players ever. And really, even here, all we talk about after a game is how much "service" Torres got

[zolayes 14,489]

Can you blame the writers for finding Torres story fascinating? He's only one of the most expensive players ever. And really, even here, all we talk about after a game is how much "service" Torres got

build them up ...knock them down ,,,the mantra of low class journalism.. Football suffers more from this than almost any other sport.

[manpe 10,861]

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.

[dodojojo 510]

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.html

Nando 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.

[Kieran. 6,317]

http://www.sportyou....nia-363262.html

Nando 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

[Sheva. 5,373]

http://translate.goo...nia-363262.html

Thanks

[LDN Blue 7,903]

[dodojojo 510]

Beauty and the Beast there...

[Prodigy91 6]

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.

[termninja 5,290]

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...

[Tortilla9 390]

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.

[zolayes 14,489]

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 might

have been different ,,, the butterfly effect in Sci Fi ...SIGHS

[Kieran. 6,317]

worse thing was he had a great chance in the first few minutes ,,could even have played square for Drog .. IF ONLY ,,,everything might

have been different ,,, the butterfly effect in Sci Fi ...SIGHS

If only he had passed to Drogba...would have scored easily.

[Tortilla9 390]

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.

[dodojojo 510]

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.