Fernando Torres

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

Torres has to go, I hope we can all find a good solution to his high wages but I think its best for both parties to separete

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Shit as usual.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

What? Nobody has blamed Hazard yet for not passing to him? Ok, seriously.

The signs were there that he was already a busted flush at Liverpool. 9 goals in his last 26 games the season we signed him. I don't know what the fuck we were thinking. I remember saying to myself after he limped off injured in the World Cup final, "It will be a very bad idea signing this guy, he's lost it". But Roman wanted him and wasted his money, a'la Shevchenko. Hopefully from now on, he leaves the football decisions to the football people.

He was never even THAT good to begin with. Only one season in his entire career above 30 goals. His 22 goal tally with us (most against shit opposition, only 8 in 38 in the league) last season was his second ever highest tally!

But because of his apparent good looks, because of his apparent nice hair, because he was Liverpool's number 9 and whatever silliness, he was immediately heralded as the "best striker in the world" by the British press and the ever hyper-fanatic Liverfool fans, despite being so dependent on his pace and being desperately one-dimensional. From Neil Ashton's article on Whoscored 2 seasons ago:

"At Chelsea, as they attempted to solve his (Torres) poor form, the coaching staff conducted a study of his 81 goals in a Liverpool shirt, and discovered that 56 of them (69%) had their origins in a through ball, usually from Gerrard or Alonso."

That's crazy, and it shows how dependent Torres was on the final ball to be a good player. Torres is no Suarez, Eto'o, Aguero, van Persie, Cavani or Falcao. Never has been. He can't create space for his shot, his close control in tight spaces is poor and he can't run a forward line on his own like Drogba. Now that the pace is gone, he's basically a much poorer version of his previous overrated self. That doesn't explain the lack of care though. His attitude (or lack thereof ) stinks.

We have 8 games to go in the league plus one/some CL games, depending on what happens against Galatasaray. Personally, I will prefer if Jose doesn't play him from now till the end of the season and he fucks off back to Spain. Thanks for the goal against Barca and the one in the EL final, but leave before you destroy yourself any further.

[Tomo 21,751]

How about this for critism, he is an embarresment to this club.

And how about this

semi retired Eto'o >>> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Torres

BA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Torres

[Strike 7,474]

good luck in future endeavours

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Fuck, can't believe eto is this much better than him. He was this bad?

[GZ25 45]

If I'm his agent, I will absolutely advise him to stay until his £175k/week (last-chance big retirement) contract run out by June 2016, even if the club treated him like Malouda.

Let's just enjoy 2 more seasons with him...

[Steve 10,227]

What a boss!

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Decent in the first half, absolutely hopeless in the second. I get Jose's decision to start him, in fact, I said that he should start before the match, but he really needs to find his start of season form if we are to have a chance at the title.

[Jase 43,479]

Decent in the first half, absolutely hopeless in the second. I get Jose's decision to start him, in fact, I said that he should start before the match, but he really needs to find his start of season form if we are to have a chance at the title.

Decent in the first half seems a rather generous evaluation. Made a few decent runs behind Villa's high line but other than that, he was almost non-existent and his first touch was absolutely appalling!

I mean really though, how many more levels can Torres sink to in terms of awfulness? Almost every game these days he plunge into a new level of abysmal-ness!

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Decent in the first half seems a rather generous evaluation. Made a few decent runs behind Villa's high line but other than that, he was almost non-existent and his first touch was absolutely appalling!

Yeah, his movement and runs and perssing were good, but his first touch and decision making was awful. That's what I call decent.

[Jase 43,479]

Yeah, his movement and runs and perssing were good, but his first touch and decision making was awful. That's what I call decent.

That's just so generous. Then again, it's Torres.....

[CHOULO19 24,332]

That's just so generous. Then again, it's Torres.....

If our strikers were Cavani and Ibrahimovic, then yeah, it was awful. But for the standards set by our strikers, it was decent.

[didierforever 7,349]

The absolute last straw. Needs to fuck off

[Reddish-Blue 2,489]

Fuck, can't believe eto is this much better than him. He was this bad?

What makes it worse is that our former striker is thriving at Liverpool!