Torres worship thread

[dawmdt]

I think some of the confusion at least comes from the currency differences, 18 million quid is about 25 million euros...

[carheex]

I should think we did get him at a steal! It's the least we deserve for letting Luis Garcia go so cheaply.

[michelmas]

dltd

[CincyRed]

I remember the echo reporting about a week after the transfer at 15.5m not including Luis. Seems low, but the more reliable sources have been in the 18m range.

[Van Halen]

On the Atletico site in the Summer it was quoted as £22m (they wanted £26m) in the end they negotiated a reduced rate for Luis as we would not pay £26m). The Post have got it wrong.

[friedk]

Who gives a ****, even at £30m Torres would seem a bargain the way he has played for us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGJ2Zfz68i0

[tommyg]

Sheva for 30

[Biff]

According to the papers its £26.5m when he has an off day but only £18m when he plays a blinder!

[friedk]

Torres worship thread

Appreciation is too small a word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK30P_zsy0E

Who cares what he costs, he's priceless.

[Skillz]

Elisha Scott said "18M and not a penny more" on YNWA. Rarely if ever wrong.

[vantage]

It will always get confused cos half the time the lazy journos are having figures quotes in Euros, not Sterling.

€26m is about £18.5. Which I think was the deal. Plus Luis, who was worth about £4m. So I reckon all in he 'owes us' about £22.5. Which is a cracking piece of business.

[tsb]

What a ****ing outstanding player. Scores with his head and both feet - a few contenders for goal of the season already! I'm buzzing about the fact that he's in THE Red shirt

[AFII]

Reds can go Aldo way to the top with Torres and Benitez
Brian Reade 01/12/2007

Before Liverpool 's American owners draw up a list of replacements to be whipped out the next time Rafa Benitez blows his top, they should take a look at these names...

Dean Saunders, Nigel Clough, Stan Collymore, Karl-Heinz Riedle, Emile Heskey, Milan Baros, El-Hadji Diouf, Djibril Cisse, Fernando Morientes, Peter Crouch, Craig Bellamy, Dirk Kuyt.

They are the big-name strikers Liverpool have paid big money for since they were last champions in 1990. The nailed-on 20 League goals-a-season men, who former chairman David Moores was persuaded were the final pieces in attacking jigsaws.

And none got near it. The closest so far, are Heskey and Collymore whose best season-long efforts were 14.


One of the main factors in Liverpool's inability to win the Premier League has been the consistent failure of managers to purchase a striker capable of scoring a goal every other game. Not since John Aldridge back in 1987 have they bought anyone who gets close to guaranteeing that. Until now.

If those hard-headed businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks needed compelling proof that their brinkmanship with Benitez is utter lunacy, it wasn't threaded on the flags or written into the chants around Anfield on Wednesday.

It was down on the pitch, in the shape of potentially the finest purchase the club has made since it signed Kenny Dalglish 30 years ago. Fernando Torres.

His ability to rip the Porto defence apart as the game headed for a draw is the reason Liverpool are still in with a decent chance of progressing in the Champions League. Just as his hat-trick against Reading is the reason they are still in the Carling Cup, and his late goals against Fulham and Spurs have kept them in contention for the title.

Despite suffering a serious injury, and a relapse from it, already this season he's scored 10 goals in 16 appearances, at a rate of 0.63 a game.

And at Newcastle should have scored another four.

But more than that he has given a side which failed horribly on too many occasions to translate possession into goals, the belief that they can win anywhere against any team. Because he is genuinely world-class.

At 23, the £21.5 million paid for him looks trifling. Think about that Messrs Hicks and Gillett.

Realise he is under a six-year contract to Liverpool because you listened to Benitez when he said he needed you to dig deep and back him. When he explained how players like Torres are the difference between winning and losing. Or in your lingo, earning dollars or cents.

The man who built the modern Anfield, Bill Shankly, said football is a simple game made complicated by fools. Well, his beloved Liverpool is in a complicated mess right now because men who should know better are acting foolishly.

Benitez was stupid for making his dispute with his bosses public, but Hicks and Gillett will be bigger fools if they sack him for insubordination just to show who's the daddy.

The Spaniard is a driven winner.

He knows what it takes to succeed at the very top of football and he won't flinch from telling people who he feels do not fully grasp it. His ill-advised tantrum was not a pointscoring ego-trip but a cry of frustration from a perfectionist.

If the Americans are half the businessmen their CV suggests, they will view it as such and realise what riches the undiluted hunger of a professional like Benitez can deliver them.

And if they're in doubt they should look again at a compilation of Torres's goals in a red shirt and see what value you can get for your dollar when you back to the hilt a manager of Benitez's calibre.

As they say back home, guys: Do the math.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...9520-20188518/

[loco_law]

Torres Torres Torres Torres Torres Torres Torres

He has pace that no one can touch...

He has a goal scoring touch that (dare I say it) reminds me of another young Spaniard named Roberto Fowlero...

He is 100000% a team player and is extremely modest....

and best of all, while playing for a different team....


HE WORE A CAPTAIN'S ARMBAND DISPLAYING "YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE" UNDER IT!!!!!!!!

This guy is the real deal, and every Manc I know is absolutely GUTTED that they didn't get him, which translates into they're jealous and afraid. Very afraid.


If I had a sister, I'd hook him up.

[thekop]

Reds can go Aldo way to the top with Torres and Benitez
Brian Reade 01/12/2007

Before Liverpool 's American owners draw up a list of replacements to be whipped out the next time Rafa Benitez blows his top, they should take a look at these names...

Dean Saunders, Nigel Clough, Stan Collymore, Karl-Heinz Riedle, Emile Heskey, Milan Baros, El-Hadji Diouf, Djibril Cisse, Fernando Morientes, Peter Crouch, Craig Bellamy, Dirk Kuyt.

They are the big-name strikers Liverpool have paid big money for since they were last champions in 1990. The nailed-on 20 League goals-a-season men, who former chairman David Moores was persuaded were the final pieces in attacking jigsaws.

And none got near it. The closest so far, are Heskey and Collymore whose best season-long efforts were 14.


One of the main factors in Liverpool's inability to win the Premier League has been the consistent failure of managers to purchase a striker capable of scoring a goal every other game. Not since John Aldridge back in 1987 have they bought anyone who gets close to guaranteeing that. Until now.

If those hard-headed businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks needed compelling proof that their brinkmanship with Benitez is utter lunacy, it wasn't threaded on the flags or written into the chants around Anfield on Wednesday.

It was down on the pitch, in the shape of potentially the finest purchase the club has made since it signed Kenny Dalglish 30 years ago. Fernando Torres.

His ability to rip the Porto defence apart as the game headed for a draw is the reason Liverpool are still in with a decent chance of progressing in the Champions League. Just as his hat-trick against Reading is the reason they are still in the Carling Cup, and his late goals against Fulham and Spurs have kept them in contention for the title.

Despite suffering a serious injury, and a relapse from it, already this season he's scored 10 goals in 16 appearances, at a rate of 0.63 a game.

And at Newcastle should have scored another four.

But more than that he has given a side which failed horribly on too many occasions to translate possession into goals, the belief that they can win anywhere against any team. Because he is genuinely world-class.

At 23, the £21.5 million paid for him looks trifling. Think about that Messrs Hicks and Gillett.

Realise he is under a six-year contract to Liverpool because you listened to Benitez when he said he needed you to dig deep and back him. When he explained how players like Torres are the difference between winning and losing. Or in your lingo, earning dollars or cents.

The man who built the modern Anfield, Bill Shankly, said football is a simple game made complicated by fools. Well, his beloved Liverpool is in a complicated mess right now because men who should know better are acting foolishly.

Benitez was stupid for making his dispute with his bosses public, but Hicks and Gillett will be bigger fools if they sack him for insubordination just to show who's the daddy.

The Spaniard is a driven winner.

He knows what it takes to succeed at the very top of football and he won't flinch from telling people who he feels do not fully grasp it. His ill-advised tantrum was not a pointscoring ego-trip but a cry of frustration from a perfectionist.

If the Americans are half the businessmen their CV suggests, they will view it as such and realise what riches the undiluted hunger of a professional like Benitez can deliver them.

And if they're in doubt they should look again at a compilation of Torres's goals in a red shirt and see what value you can get for your dollar when you back to the hilt a manager of Benitez's calibre.

As they say back home, guys: Do the math.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...9520-20188518/

Good read that also, a few home truths which the yanks should take a serious note of