Re: Torres - Chelsea 35mil Bid turned down
Of all the acts or treachery carried out by Liverpool players, and I suppose in truth there have not been that many, this one seems to have plunged the dagger much nearer the heart than all the others.
I think the we hate you so much because we loved you so much banner for Figo sums things up.
He got it, he really did, or seemed to at least. The people, the City , the club, our likes our hates our little idiosyncrasies like worshipping over paid footballers in fact everything that made us tick, and seemed to actually be doing it, playing, for us, the fans - the people who loved him so much.
The traitor acted with stealth, sneaking around like a thief in the night with his accomplice. I knew there was something wrong when he scuttled down the tunnel, without acknowledging anyone, as soon as the whistle blew on Wednesday.
One of the issues that makes this so difficult to swallow is, as everyone has pointed out, is the timing. No one has been pleading for some support for him on the pitch, and as back up for him when he is on the treatment table, more than me , I have been obsessing about it for two years.
Within a few minutes of that being a reality, our dreams of Suarez and Torres wreaking havoc on opposition defences have been smashed into forty million little pieces. We have sympathised with him when having lumps kicked out of him ,with little protection, on his own up front, and we understood his frustrations, with mixed feelings, in the ability of some of his team mates to deliver the success he so obviously craves.
One of the saving graces of our other main traitors is that they have had the decency to fuck off abroad where we can avoid them for long periods of time, and scoff at their failures, from some distance, but to consider joining a club so obviously devoid of class is the final insult to those that did love him so much, and perhaps mistakenly in that love , cut him an awful lot of slack.
It's not like we were not expecting it, we were in the summer, and we probably were again this summer. However he did the right thing, obviously under some pressure, and agreed to give the new regime a chance, from his well used treatment table of course. "Fantastic" we all thought, and that relieved some of the gloom, albeit temporarily, perhaps it would have been better if he went then. Still we thought we would get this season out of him. We thought that was certainly going to be the case , when he blurted out how he was going to honour his contract, and so implying he was indeed the honourable young man we all thought he was.
We all started wetting our pants that the pursuit of Suarez and Adam in the January window ( a notoriously difficult window to deal in), went a long way to show Fernando FSG's ambition to improve our position, ultimately taking over from his as the club record purchase. If they do this now, I thought, what will happen in the summer...Whoo hoo.
If he was pissing of to Italy or Spain for £50 million I would not care that much, as I know with that money we could get someone more robust and reliable, and in all probability almost as good, as of course will be the case with the fraudsters Roubles....eventually .
If he does go to Chelsea to see him hugging Drogba, Terry and Ashley Cole would be nauseous.
It just seems like such a sickening kick in the guts, just when we were starting to get up and dust ourselves down, after being trampled on by everyone in the football world.
I still think there is more to it than him being tapped up, or just finally making the decision, but I am sure that will come out in the wash.
Short of him sacking his agent, blaming him for misguiding him, a grovelling apology for all the emotional upset, and signing a contract extension, or other revelations come to light where Liverpool have acted underhandedly , both as unlikely as each other..........there really is no way back and he will as from Friday evening be persona no grata. Et tu BruteFernando.
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