Torres

[Slinky Skills]

Agreed with everything you said after this....but WTF? You still think it was a ludicrous amount of money? If anything, at £18m (as the Echo insist), he's a ****ing BARGAIN!!

It IS still a shocking amount of money, I'm not pointing just at him but at prices in general. £40 million for Shevchenko aswell, it IS crazy but that is the market at the moment and that is what we've had to invest in order to buy quality.

[AFII]

Honestly it will be painfull watching our other strikers play when Torres in on the bench.He is electric and is everything a striker should be.
Crouch looked like a snail beside him tonight.
Torres and Gerrard up top.They have total respect for each other and link so well.

We need Gerrard in the middle with Alonso out. I would play Lucas behind Torres.

[zimbo]

http://www.redcafe.net/showthread.php?t=171788

That Davo bloke on there is a Liverpool fan, yet he's got nearly 55,000 posts on a Man U site.

Makes Shaggy look like some bashful lurker.

[Shaggy]

That Davo bloke on there is a Liverpool fan, yet he's got nearly 55,000 posts on a Man U site.

Makes Shaggy look like some bashful lurker.

[Morph]

I genuinely think i'm in love with Fernando Torres

gay

[desertscouser]

He's so good he makes me feel like a kid again.

You fanny.

Same here

[Neil Young]

Neil, when I saw his name in the starting 11 I immediately thought Rafa would rest him against Wigan to keep him fresh for our CL game

And I totally agree with you, Rafa's paid big big money to make decisions and he deserves all the plaudits when they come off and all the criticism when it doesn't. That's football.

Yes we have a right to criticise him when it goes wrong. All I would say is our solutions are never tested so it's easy for us to be right and hard for us to be wrong. As someone has said elsewhere after all the slagging for not picking him on Saturday who is to say after tonight's display that Rafa wasn't totally right to give him a bit of extra rest?

If people are going to criticise him for not playing him on Saturday then they can't really have it both ways when he bangs in a hat-trick tonight by saying he shouldn't be playing in the League Cup.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

That Davo bloke on there is a Liverpool fan, yet he's got nearly 55,000 posts on a Man U site.

Makes Shaggy look like some bashful lurker.

Makes you wonder though doesn't it?

Having that many posts on a LFC forum is, well, sad enough. But on a manc forum?

[kurtangle01]

You fanny.

Same here

You've met Shaggy aswell then, Sammy?

[Marky]

gay

Just for El Nino
What a star we have on our hands

[desertscouser]

Yes we have a right to criticise him when it goes wrong. All I would say is our solutions are never tested so it's easy for us to be right and hard for us to be wrong. As someone has said elsewhere after all the slagging for not picking him on Saturday who is to say after tonight's display that Rafa wasn't totally right to give him a bit of extra rest?

If people are going to criticise him for not playing him on Saturday then they can't really have it both ways when he bangs in a hat-trick tonight by saying he shouldn't be playing in the League Cup.

True.

But it's a no brainer for everyone on this planet apart from Rafa. Torres doesn't need a rest when he's played **** all football and he simply must start every single premiership game unless he's injured or genuinely tired. If Rafa plays his core best players in every premiership game (just as premiership champion managers Wenger, Demento and Maureen do and have done) then no one can criticise the manager's team selections. If he continues to make nonsensical decisions then he'll come in for justified criticism when it goes wrong.

I love Rafa, I think he's a fantastic manager, but unless he gets over his obsession with rotation then we won't win the league.

[wiw]

My fav attribute of his is his composure. Completely took the piss for the 3rd!

Seems very Fowler-like, in that all of his other qualities (pace, skill, strength etc) are second nature, leaving him to react to the situation with ease, picking the best options more often than not.

[desertscouser]

You've met Shaggy aswell then, Sammy?

Everytime I think of Shaggy I think of that 'stage dive'. Incredible.

[Morph]

Just for El Nino
What a star we have on our hands

[Neil Young]

Just for El Nino
What a star we have on our hands

It's a bit rich you calling him El Niño.

I know what you mean though.