Re: Torres - Chelsea 35mil Bid turned down
[quote author=mark1975 link=topic=43861.msg1268416#msg1268416 date=1296314577]
I feel gutted completely. And every time we have to sit through stuff like this, my love for the game is diminished just that little bit more.
Don't get me wrong, I love the game, there's nothing better than seeing your team win, regardless of all the bullshit that goes with it, but this is the downside of it. For all the beauty we've brought into the game from overseas in the last two decades, there's a distinct lack of loyalty left, and even the things that make this club great and our ability to embrace our foreign players as adoptive sons, it starts to gradually wear thin every time someone kicks us in the teeth like this.
Robbie and Carragher started out supporting our most fierce rivals, the kind of embedded rivalry you'd expect to breed a wavering of loyalty somewhere down the line. So it's ironic that they have become pillars of loyalty and love to the club. They are the perfect expression of what this club is about, how we take players and even if their allegiances are elsewhere, we enamour ourselves so well with people that we make them our own.
This is why I feel so sick to the stomach about this. 'Nando' felt like one of our own. A player to cherish but also be proud of. A big fuck you in the face of relative failure, a small thread of hope clinging us on to the fringe of success. Our hope, our saviour.
He won't ever feel that anywhere else, ever. He won't ever experience the adulation he's had at Atletico and now here. When Gerrard was on the verge of going I thought, you know what, even if he wins the title with Chelsea, he'll never be truly satisfied for as long as he lives, because nothing would ever come close to lifting that trophy with this club. Nothing would come close to being greeted by millions of scousers as you parade the trophy on a double decker bus around the City.
Because no one does it quite like us, and I hope that becomes inbedded in his consciousness for years to come.
If this is fairwell, then thanks for the memories, enjoy the hollow victories and remember the smiles you brought to the faces of us reds, when you look into the eyes of your new fans, what will you see staring back? Will it be the same?
Will it fuck.
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Completely and utterly fucking agree.
That post nails it on the head for me.
