Fernando Torres

[peekay]

I was a little bit nervous about his transfer fee as despite his promise and prodigious talent, there was an element of not yet fulfilled his early promise about him at A. Madrid. And we definitely could not afford to get this wrong.



All fears and doubts vanished with this performance. It was not just the goal. His attitude towards Terry, shushing them, signalling them to stop yapping, the confidence, the way he glided and strutted on the pitch like he owned it. Almost as if the entire Liverpool community got a shot in the arm.

 

[Athens]

"Splashed out 20 million on him"

 

[LeTallecWiz]

Went to the club with plastic flags, where the captain shags your wag, fernando torres ... just a cockney slag.

Well, he was great, no reason to deny that and he left behind a struggling team that was going nowhere ...

 

[gene hughes]

I will never forgive him. He’ll never be a legend to me.

 

[moron]

"Splashed out 20 million on him"

Which was bloody cheap for someone of his talent even back then. That is what shocked me ... we managed to sign him for just 20M. In the interview i saw him in, where he explained the circumstances of his departure from Liverpool he also talked about his departure from AM. He mentioned that they were desperate for money at the time and had to sell him. Its quite ironic as we pretty much did the same to him. I was so angry when he left but looking back ... because he failed at Chelsea in terms of not personally succeeding I can look at him and wish him well and remember him for his amazing talent and how good he was for us. I still do not understand why it all went so wrong for us back then.

 

[Red Astaire]

I was at his last game at Anfield (against Fulham maybe). He fucking downed tools like a proper sulky cunt. The lads next to me in the Kop were gutted, disappointed and enraged. I loved him then I hated him. No respect to the club. None. He may have wanted greener pastures which would be fair enough but the way he went about it..... Well.... He fucked up. Coutinho maybe a bit of a dick but at least he didn't do a 'Torres'

 

[Dreambeliever]

I will never forgive him. He’ll never be a legend to me.

Same

 

[Red Bird]

Hello. Can anyone find me Red Bird's number.

Haha haha.

 

[Roopy]

"Torres ... with a debut goal at Anfield ... THEY'VE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH HIM NOW!"

Good memories.

Quality striker during his time at the club.

 

[The Nomad]

Torres names Gerrard as the player who completed his game. And would give anything to go back to those days 'even if just for 1 minute'.

 

[Roopy]

Torres names Gerrard as the player who completed his game. And would give anything to go back to those days 'even if just for 1 minute'.

Absolutely.

Torres was brilliant at making smart runs in behind the defence - and Gerrard's brilliant passing & vision allowed him to flourish with those runs.

It was football at its best - it was football at its most simplest.

 

[doctor_mac]

I will never forgive him. He’ll never be a legend to me.

He won't be a legend for me either, but the pain has subsided enough to appreciate what a brilliant player he was for us in his prime. He, more than any other player, made us feel cheated on by the love of our life. It has been a very gradual process, but I'm now over him.

I think seeing Suarez acting like such a cunt against us helped me in this. That guy couldn't give a hairy fuck about Liverpool. Torres, as JJ said, looked like he thought he had made a mistake from the moment he left. I really believe we were the footballing love of his life too.

 

[Red Bird]

Absolutely.

Torres was brilliant at making smart runs in behind the defence - and Gerrard's brilliant passing & vision allowed him to flourish with those runs.

It was football at its best - it was football at its most simplest.

... with Alonso and Agger initiating the moves. Once Gerrard had the ball at his feet, Torres mostly needed to move into space and the former would pick him out.

 

[Squiggles]

I was at his last game at Anfield (against Fulham maybe). He fucking downed tools like a proper sulky cunt. The lads next to me in the Kop were gutted, disappointed and enraged. I loved him then I hated him. No respect to the club. None. He may have wanted greener pastures which would be fair enough but the way he went about it..... Well.... He fucked up. Coutinho maybe a bit of a dick but at least he didn't do a 'Torres'

At least Torres actually went out on the pitch. Coutinho feigned injury in some important matches to qualify for the CL. They can both go fuck themselves AFAIC.

 

[juniormember]

He won't be a legend for me either, but the pain has subsided enough to appreciate what a brilliant player he was for us in his prime. He, more than any other player, made us feel cheated on by the love of our life. It has been a very gradual process, but I'm now over him.

I think seeing Suarez acting like such a cunt against us helped me in this. That guy couldn't give a hairy fuck about Liverpool. Torres, as JJ said, looked like he thought he had made a mistake from the moment he left. I really believe we were the footballing love of his life too.

We can believe that as LFC supporters, but his footballing love is 100% with Athletico in reality.
He’d already lost his pace when he left us so had gone down a level. And left because he wanted trophies. He won two European trophies and a couple of FA Cups. Not sure how much he regrets leaving Liverpool. He left and got what he wanted.

 

[juniormember]

At least Torres actually went out on the pitch. Coutinho feigned injury in some important matches to qualify for the CL. They can both go fuck themselves AFAIC.

Yeah that ‘injury’ was low. And him crying after scoring for Brazil during that period as a statement for our treatment of him. Prick.

 

[Dreambeliever]

He won't be a legend for me either, but the pain has subsided enough to appreciate what a brilliant player he was for us in his prime. He, more than any other player, made us feel cheated on by the love of our life. It has been a very gradual process, but I'm now over him.

I think seeing Suarez acting like such a cunt against us helped me in this. That guy couldn't give a hairy fuck about Liverpool. Torres, as JJ said, looked like he thought he had made a mistake from the moment he left. I really believe we were the footballing love of his life too.

Only because he was shite. Suarez went onto win big trophies while being one of the main men and playing superbly.

If Torres was banging them in at Chelsea he wouldn’t have given a fuck

 

[Dreambeliever]

He won't be a legend for me either, but the pain has subsided enough to appreciate what a brilliant player he was for us in his prime. He, more than any other player, made us feel cheated on by the love of our life. It has been a very gradual process, but I'm now over him.

I think seeing Suarez acting like such a cunt against us helped me in this. That guy couldn't give a hairy fuck about Liverpool. Torres, as JJ said, looked like he thought he had made a mistake from the moment he left. I really believe we were the footballing love of his life too.

Atletico are his footballing love

 

[Brizzle]

He couldn't have had a better start to his career than that goal against Chelsea. It was simply glorious. If only we could have had an extra one or two quality players around him over those years - he was incredible for large amounts of time.

 

[doctor_mac]

Atletico are his footballing love

There's a difference. He supports Athleti. He said if he could go back to relive any point in his career, it would be with us. Not athleti.

 

[Red Bird]

There's a difference. He supports Athleti. He said if he could go back to relive any point in his career, it would be with us. Not athleti.

Aye. He was no great shakes anywhere else except at Liverpool where he played his best football.

 

[manwithnoname]

Aye. He was no great shakes anywhere else except at Liverpool where he played his best football.

No doubt that his best football was at Liverpool, but he was still very, very highly rated when we signed him, and was also leading the line for Spain and AM when we signed him.

"No great shakes" is hardly fair.

 

[juniormember]

There's a difference. He supports Athleti. He said if he could go back to relive any point in his career, it would be with us. Not athleti.

Wasn’t he talking more about Gerrard than the club? I think he was happy he left.

 

[Judge Jules]

That's hard to reconcile with the way he came across when he actually did the deed. That day he looked like death warmed up, ditto at Stamford Bridge a few days later when we beat them and after the game he spent all his time talking to our players rather than his new teammates. He may have decided he had to leave, but I don't actually think he was ever really happy about it.

 

[localny]

Great player, but once you let us down - not by leaving but in the manner thereof, it's over for me.

Here's the more recent Judas moments.

1. Mikey Owen - we should have got 20M for him, but he f-ed us by running down his contract
2. Steve McMoneyman - Same
3. Suarez - A Nutter who only has allegience to himself - BUT CHA CHING
4. Torres - Let us down but could understand him leaving, plus all that $$$
5. Masher - Another one, but I forgive him more since he appreciated denying United the CL when he won it with Barca.

 

[localny]

That's hard to reconcile with the way he came across when he actually did the deed. That day he looked like death warmed up, ditto at Stamford Bridge a few days later when we beat them and after the game he spent all his time talking to our players rather than his new teammates. He may have decided he had to leave, but I don't actually think he was ever really happy about it.

Agreed, would like to read his Book for sure.

 

[redblack7]

Wasn’t he talking more about Gerrard than the club? I think he was happy he left.

Mebbe he just can't bring himself to say the word Liverpool. He'd really start blubbing then.

 

[Red Bird]

No doubt that his best football was at Liverpool, but he was still very, very highly rated when we signed him, and was also leading the line for Spain and AM when we signed him.

"No great shakes" is hardly fair.

Good shout. I was actually talking about post Liverpool but didn’t make that clear.

 

[manwithnoname]

Good shout. I was actually talking about post Liverpool but didn’t make that clear.

Well he won more than he would have had he stayed, but it all seemed so joyless and also during a sad, and precipitous decline in his post-Liverpool career.

Well, not 'sad' exactly, fuck him

 

[StevieM]

Torres leaving “broke” something for me - maybe that after all, footballers are just a bunch of inconsequential, self-centres cnuts that don’t deserve the idolatry they get.

His leaving - more than any other - hurt.

As Doc said, though, it paved the way for not being too fussed by Suarez & Coutinho.

It’ll help when Salah & Mane decide to fuck off to Real Madrid or Barca as well.