I think he has lost the electric burst of pace/acceleration that he had before, and i also think he has a slight mental block with regards to hitting the accelerator and pushing it to top speed, for fear of hamstring snap.
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Originally posted by barnes10 View Post
he isn't doing himself any favours at all.
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Weak willed, Wank or do they have a masterplan?
Think we have the answer..Slot!!
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I'm not so sure, if he fails to score goals, and Chelsea fail to achieve what they expect, that will turn them against him, they'll forgive everything if he's a success, they are only words after all, and we know how little they mean in the grand scheme of things.Originally posted by barnes10 View Post
Well....that and the fact they're a shallow plastic lot at Chelsea.
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Even as early as about 7pm Sunday evening, there were chelsea fans ringing into the radio slagging him off.Originally posted by Vermilion View PostI'm not so sure, if he fails to score goals, and Chelsea fail to achieve what they expect, that will turn them against him, they'll forgive everything if he's a success, they are only words after all, and we know how little they mean in the grand scheme of things.
Well....that and the fact they're a shallow plastic lot at Chelsea.
"He never put a shift in, rubbish, not enough effort."
I couldnt help but smile and think to myself 'yeah, get used to it'.Comment
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Do you think the fact he didnt do well at all and that we're saying get used to it is sour grapes on our part, or something that we simply just accepted from him, and now he is doing it for someone else we can laugh?
I like to think its the latter
*Except Michael, who died.Comment
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Fernando Torres: Liverpool is a 'bigger club' but I needed move to Chelsea to reignite my passion for game
Chelsea's £50 million record signing Fernando Torres concedes he has joined a "smaller club" but it was the move he needed to reignite his enthusiasm for the game.
Fernando Torres: Liverpool is a 'bigger club' but I needed move to Chelsea to reignite my passion for game
From red to blue: Fernando Torres said he needed to leave Liverpool to get his enthusiasm for game back
By Vicki Hodges 10:52AM GMT 08 Feb 2011
The Spain striker joined the champions on transfer deadline day after three-and-a-half years at Liverpool and admitted that things "looked black" on Merseyside.
"Liverpool will always be very special to me," Torres told Spanish radio station Cadena Ser. "Because of its history, Liverpool is a bigger club but it's going through a difficult time.
"I thought I would stay one more year and take it as a transition season. But a time comes when you lose enthusiasm, you see those in the Spanish national team are playing at a different level.
"Then when everything looked black, Chelsea came and showed a real interest."
Torres made a lucklustre debut against his former club and was substituted after 66 minutes as Chelsea suffered a 1-0 loss to Kenny Dalglish's rejuvenated side on Sunday.
The 26 year-old, who is preparing for Spain's friendly against Colombia at the Bernabeu on Wednesday night, said he has been pleasantly surprised by the togetherness of the Chelsea dressing room.
He said: "I thought it would be more distant but the atmosphere is very good, they laugh, they joke. It's nice. My wife, though, she is in a locked room."Comment
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He is back peddling as he knows he pissed a lot of people off.*Except Michael, who died.Comment
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I think it's the latter, but also think that we were convincing ourselves that it was just a lack of fitness/sharpness, and that it was only temporary. But as time went on, that looked less and less likely. Then it was a lack of belief in Hodgson and a lack of motivation. Then Hodgson went and he improved a bit, but not to the previous standard of 2-3 years ago.Originally posted by Alex View PostDo you think the fact he didnt do well at all and that we're saying get used to it is sour grapes on our part, or something that we simply just accepted from him, and now he is doing it for someone else we can laugh?
I like to think its the latter
Will be interesting to see how he does next season, with a summer off.Comment
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He's never going to reach the heights of his first season with us again. Once players with that instant burst of pace lose that, they very rarely get it back.
He's only half the player without this too. I've seen him countless times (fully fit) with very average defenders catching up with him and brushing him off the ball when 1 on 1. That is not the Torres of his first season.Comment
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Chelsea, Liverpool Spending `Shocks' Champion Barcelona
By Tariq Panja
Chelsea and Liverpool’s one-day 130 million-pound ($209 million) spending on players “shocked” Spanish champion Barcelona, with a club director labeling the Blues’ signing of Fernando Torres as “overpriced.”
Raul Sanllehi said he didn’t expect such high amounts to be spent in soccer’s mid-season transfer window, which closed Jan. 31. English Premier League clubs spent 225 million pounds in the month, seven times the year-earlier figure.
Chelsea signed Spain striker Torres for 50 million pounds and added Benfica defender David Luiz for 25 million euros ($34 million) on deadline day. Liverpool used the Torres windfall to pay Newcastle 35 million pounds for Andy Carroll and completed the 26 million-euro signing of Ajax’s Luis Suarez the same day.
“I was shocked by the amount spent,” Sanllehi told reporters at a meeting of Europe’s top clubs in Geneva today. “I did not expect such big amounts to be spent, especially in the winter time. I felt the amount was very high.”
In 2009, Barcelona paid 46 million euros plus striker Samuel Eto’o for Inter Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. A season later Barca sold him to AC Milan for about half that price. Yet, Sanllehi said former Atletico Madrid player Torres, who scored 65 goals in 102 league games for Liverpool, shouldn’t have been so expensive.
“I know Barcelona would not do that signing,” he said. “We would not even consider it.”
Barcelona, which is seven points clear of second-placed Real Madrid in La Liga, signed PSV Eindhoven midfielder Ibrahim Affelay as its sole January purchase for 3 million euros.
Barcelona Finances
The club’s finances have come under scrutiny since President Sandro Rosell in October announced it incurred a record 79.6 million-euro loss last season and was 430 million euros in debt. Chelsea last week announced a loss of 70.9 million pounds for the year through June 2010. Roman Abramovich, the Blues’ billionaire owner, has plowed about 700 million pounds in equity into the club since buying it in 2003.
Barcelona’s financial situation led it to agree on a commercial shirt sponsorship deal for the first time in its 111- year history. In December, the club signed a record 125 million- pound, five-year, contract with the Qatar Foundation, the emirate’s philanthropic arm.
“Let’s not fool ourselves, we needed the money,” Sanllehi said, adding that the group was chosen because of its charity work. Barcelona’s only previous endorsement was with Unicef, and the soccer club paid the children’s charity to put its logo on its jerseys.
“We tried to be consistent with our idea, that’s why we avoided big commercially orientated brands,” Sanllehi said._____________________________________
Weak willed, Wank or do they have a masterplan?
Think we have the answer..Slot!!Comment
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Is that a Shaggy edit?Originally posted by mick the click View Post
"Its not about the long ball or the short ball, its about the right ball." Bob PaisleyComment
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Looking forward to UEFA getting tough with the likes of Barca and Real over their debts.Originally posted by red g View Post
but I wont hold my breath.Comment
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And the fox likes to think the grapes are sour.Originally posted by Alex View PostDo you think the fact he didnt do well at all and that we're saying get used to it is sour grapes on our part, or something that we simply just accepted from him, and now he is doing it for someone else we can laugh?
I like to think its the latter
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Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
May the Lord bless this post.Comment
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