Torres out for 6 weeks

[greenbloodred]

Finishing 4th now would be as big a miracle as Istanbul

[Armchairkopite]

MASSIVE blow for the club and Rafa, absolutely MASSIVE.

[Armchairkopite]

Rafa will go all out and buy a forward now, he has to

[G]

at least he gets a rest.

He hasn't had a proper summer rest and unhindered pre -season programme since we signed him.For me its no coincidence that the lad has become injury prone.he was never injured at Athleti,his star has risen since,so has Spains and as a consequence he's playing games nearly all year round since 2007

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TORRES-

"We didn’t want to win the Europa League at the start of the season but it’s a reality now," he told FourFourTwo.

"Now we have to win it. Anything less than winning the tournament would be terrible.
“If we do not win it then we have to say it’s been a very, very, very bad season in Europe.
"We need to improve, we need to take responsibility and we need to get into the top four and win something. We have virtually no chance of winning the title now.
“Now we need to make the best of this situation."
Torres has seen his own season hampered by a thigh injury in recent months, and he was withdrawn after just 29 minutes against Reading with a knee problem that will keep him out until March.
But it's the team's stumbling progress that is causing Torres the most pain.
“It’s frustrating. We finished second last season; this season should have been a turning point for us – the chance for us to do something great.
"Manchester United sold Carlos Tevez and Cristiano Ronaldo, while Chelsea didn’t sign anyone. But it hasn’t been."
Now Liverpool's No.9, who saw former Atletico Madrid mate Maxi Rodriguez join the Reds on a free transfer on Wednesday, has called on the club’s owners to dig deep and back Benitez to ensure Liverpool are back challenging on all fronts next season.

“It’s now the owners’ turn,” Torres insisted.

“They have to sign players so that this does not happen again. If we want to compete with United and Chelsea we need a much, much more complete squad. We need more genuinely first class players and we can’t let our best players leave.

[Armchairkopite]

Interesting quotes form Torres, fair play to him.

[ForeverRed]

Why not give Pacheco a run out? Seems like a talented young lad...

Either way, it's going to be a hell of a struggle to finish 4th now!

[badpiggy]

time for players to man the **** up and for rafa to prove himself bigtime. maybe, just maybe a real actual sewage treatment plant-size of a **** sandwich like this will bring out the fight we have been missing? this has actually taken my mind off last night's result in a perverse way. i'm with the cheerleading section of est posters on this one. a lot of our players need ****in uber support now. **** thoughts of 4th, **** what's happened in CL, fa cup and CC - we have 6 ******* weeks to get through and rafa ain't gonna get sacked. survive this, stay in touch with 4th place and we can think longer-term again.

that's my "blessing in disgiuse" speech btw. football really is like religion - you'll believe any old bollox if you think it'll get you through. woo****inhoo!!!

[anfieldanfield]

Why not give Pacheco a run out? Seems like a talented young lad...

Don't think Rafa will start Pacheco, as much as we would all like him too.

[cream]

I think the best we can do is

--------------Kuyt------------

----Aurelio---Aquilani---Maxi---

-------Lucas------Masch------

We need to sign a striker desperately.

[Daniel 7]

Four of the best 'Angst Metal' bands around, from what I've heard.

Sorry - just had to acknowledge that...Brilliant!

[Armchairkopite]

I think the best we can do is

--------------Kuyt------------

----Aurelio---Aquilani---Maxi---

-------Lucas------Masch------

We need to sign a striker desperately.

And a back line if that line up is anything to go by.

The only problem with that tweam is Aurelio and i though Riera was back in training last weeek ??

[Armchairkopite]

Don't think Rafa will start Pacheco, as much as we would all like him too.

I wouldn't start him away to bleedin Stoke are you off your tits or what.

Off the bench in the dying embers maybe but from the start he'd be crucified.

[ForeverRed]

I wouldn't start him away to bleedin Stoke are you off your tits or what.

Off the bench in the dying embers maybe but from the start he'd be crucified.

Like N'gog? Or Babel? Or..erm...erm...

[Armchairkopite]

Like N'gog? Or Babel? Or..erm...erm...

Come off it both are physically stronger then Patcheco ffs, and i aalready mentioned earlier that I felt Ngog would be too light to lead the line.