Fernando Torres retires

[Shaggy]

Never, ever been as gutted - before or after - about a player leaving Liverpool. He was phenomenal. For a while, we had the absolute best in the business, a proper world number one in his position, so losing him (even though it was plain he wasn't the same that season) and replacing him with a ****ing hippo like Andy Carroll made it so, so much worse.

Half of the hurt was probably because of the steep decline we had with the ownership situation, Rafa leaving, Mascherano leaving, Alonso leaving and Roy ****ting Hodgson being the manager - it was pretty hard to take, especially because we had just signed Suarez and Kenny had just taken over.

Looking back, it was the right time - his post Liverpool stats didn't come close and we were given £50m when that was a gobsmacking amount of money. Still, I think this forum talked about little else but the missed potential of seeing Suarez and Torres play together for years .

Andy ****ing Carroll

Very well put mate. Feel / felt the same.

[kingfunk]

Me too. Where were you?

I was on a golfing holiday in Morfa Nefyn with my Dad, Grandad and a couple of family friends. Read the paper in the morning over breakfast (it's hard to believe that in 2007 we still had to rely on ****ing newspapers?!?!) and we'd signed Torres. I was ecstatic. I was so pumped I walked on to the first tee and, teeing up the ball and thinking only about Fernando Torres, I launched a massive drive down the first straight into the bushes on the right

I was living in Ireland at the time and was working on a building site, went down to the local shop/cafe for a breakfast roll and picked up the newspaper which was the Irish Daily Star. There was a picture of him in the red kit, and I remember being so ****ing excited, he just looked like the kit was designed for him only and just had that feeling he was going to be epic, I remember listening to the sports bulletins all day just to have it confirmed. If I remember correctly there was rumours of us been interested but it was one of those where nobody actually believed it was going to happen and then bang, out of nowhere the deal was done and dusted. Good times

[Fosterbloke]

My first thoughts of Torres are of him being elbowed in the face by Daniel 'Gandalf the Grey' Agger.

[Buzzo]

Just read this quote from Torres, which brilliantly sums up Rafa

”I remember that I was playing phenomenally, I had just scored three goals and everyone signed the ball.

Everyone put ‘you’re the best’ or ‘congratulations, things like that.

Rafa Benitez put ‘Today you lost the ball eight times’.”

[baitman]

rafa is such a sour ****er, brings them down like a benzo

[Les Zeffelin]

Just read this quote from Torres, which brilliantly sums up Rafa

Quote:

”I remember that I was playing phenomenally, I had just scored three goals and everyone signed the ball.

Everyone put ‘you’re the best’ or ‘congratulations, things like that.

Rafa Benitez put ‘Today you lost the ball eight times’.”

Rafa's a lot like my wife in that respect.

[Buzzo]

Rafa's a lot like my wife in that respect.

[Angryred]

Rafa's a lot like my wife in that respect.

eh?...so she has a moustache like them fat spanish waiters?

[frank the tank]

[Les Zeffelin]

eh?...so she has a moustache like them fat spanish waiters?

Now behave yourself Angry, you know very well I was referring to a mutual capacity for finding fault regardless.
Although now you mention it, women when they get to a certain age often develop issues with unwanted facial hair. However, her attempts at a Spanish accent are just appalling.

[Angryred]

Now behave yourself Angry, you know very well I was referring to a mutual capacity for finding fault regardless.
Although now you mention it, women when they get to a certain age often develop issues with unwanted facial hair. However, her attempts at a Spanish accent are just appalling.

[brightred]

Rafa's a lot like my wife in that respect.

Like all our wives bud!

[Charly]

Trade her in for a "hodgeson"???