Fernando Torres

[saj]

Merry Christmas Fernando. Just remember what coloured suit Santa wears

[Fredo]

Merry Christmas Fernando. Just remember what coloured suit Santa wears

'Kin hell you're insulting the black suits.

[Slinky Skills]

He only played 12 minutes last night but his movement was dire once again.

Looks completely lost out there.

He got new boots (black) though

Only a matter of time before he starts scoring then.

[Tee]

Saw highlights of his first season with us today.....wow, ****ing wow!!! Unbelievable debut season....incredible really for a first season in a new country and league.
His debut goal v the Chavs is still my favourite. He will never be that good again, ever!

[pondus]

Saw highlights of his first season with us today.....wow, ****ing wow!!! Unbelievable debut season....incredible really for a first season in a new country and league.
His debut goal v the Chavs is still my favourite. He will never be that good again, ever!

One of my favourite goals as well, watched it with my dad in a pub the night before I was having an operation on my vocal cords, he was great back then. Now he can **** off

[Slinky Skills]

****ing hell Fernando Torres what has happened to you man?

You were the best striker on the planet when you played for us, the BEST.



Look at you now man,

Please come back lad, come back and finish the fairytale off. We'd forgive you man. You wouldn't even have to admit that you ****ed up, it would all be forgotten.

We'd sing the Torres bounce in conjunction with "We just can't ge enough".

Depressing ****, what a ****ing waste of a fantastic talent.

[chrispy]

Would people really welcome him back after the way in which he left and subsequent comments? I could never support him again, ever. Not even if he single handedly won us the EPL.

[Tee]

Would people really welcome him back after the way in which he left and subsequent comments? I could never support him again, ever. Not even if he single handedly won us the EPL.

Really? I find that hard to believe. He would be untouchable if he came back and won us the league!

[Exiled_red]

I read a stat earlier that said in his time with us no player scored more Premier League goals than him, in his time at Chelsea over 70 players have scored more Premier League goals than him.

[Vermilion]

I find the whole discussion about 'welcoming him back' a real waste of time, why not discuss how we'll play Messi next season ?

On top of everything else, his criticism of this ownership, calling them 'liars', and claims they are 'not who lfc fans think they are' means he'll be lucky to see the inside of Anfield playing for those Chav ****s, let alone wearing the Red of lFC again.
waits for someone to start discussing how we'll play Messi next season.

[Chazza]

Starting today with Mata and Sturridge

[Chris]

Hahahaha ****e!

[Liverpel]

Just about the last thing Fernando Torres needed on Monday was a half‑time appearance by Jimmy Greaves, a rare visitor to the home of the club for whom, between the ages of 17 and 21, he scored 124 goals in 157 league matches. Now a portly 71-year-old, the immortal Greavsie received an ovation from all quarters of the ground, not least from the visiting Fulham fans clustered in the old Shed End. Poor Torres once again toiled without reward, the £50m striker failing to add to the three Premier League goals scored since his arrival 11 months and 26 appearances ago.

Torres's first league goal for Chelsea came against West Ham United on 23*April, ending a scoreless spell of 903 minutes. Could anyone imagine such a drought ever having engulfed Greaves, who went on to score 220 times in 321 league matches for Tottenham Hotspur? When he turned up to play against your club back in the 60s, the one thing you could be pretty sure of was that he would score, and it would probably be the winner.

Given the size of Roman Abramovich's investment and Torres's record with his previous clubs, no one will be willing to write the Spaniard off just yet. His time at Stamford Bridge, however, is looking very much like a failure, and you can imagine a cheque being snatched from the hands of any club willing to come close to the sum paid to Liverpool at the start of the year.

It could be said that Greaves, too, suffered a major setback in his career. In the summer of 1961, to the player's dismay, Chelsea accepted a large offer from Milan, but his time at San Siro, under the great manager Nereo Rocco, lasted only a few months. Even then, unsettled as he was, he managed to score nine goals in 12 appearances for the Rossoneri in the demanding context of a defence-obsessed Italian league.

On Monday André Villas-Boas picked Torres in the starting lineup for only the seventh time in the league this season, and the first time since the end of October. The manager must have been hoping that, facing a Fulham defence which shipped five goals against Manchester United last week, his troubled forward would be able to make a strong claim for preferment when Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou go off to the Africa Cup of Nations next month.

The Spaniard could certainly not be faulted on the grounds of effort. He was prominent in the opening exchanges, engaging in a series of physical tussles with Danny Murphy, the Fulham captain, who was occupying the shielding role in Martin Jol's tightly compressed 4-1-4-1 formation. Murphy nicked the ball away from Torres, Torres stole it from Murphy, and then the Spaniard went down clutching his upper thigh after the Englishman had raised his boot in a 50-50 challenge. The retaliatory foul came a few minutes later, soon after Torres had failed to connect with Daniel Sturridge's low cross to the near post.

Is it just a prolonged streak of misfortune that is dragging Torres down, or some weakness in himself? In the 16th minute he judged the flight of Juan Mata's diagonal chip from the right to perfection, meeting it on his chest as it dropped over Philippe Senderos's head and holding off Stephen Kelly as he hooked his volley towards goal from close range. All the way through Torres's career, until his arrival in west London, such moments led to celebration. But things have changed so radically that it was no surprise when this time, unfortunately for him, the shot found David Stockdale in the perfect position. It was the first of several excellent saves that made the young English goalkeeper the game's outstanding individual.

Torres toiled on, robbing Brede Hangeland in a dangerous position and feeding Sturridge for a shot sliced wide from 15 yards, then committing his own error of marksmanship when moving on to Mata's pass on the right-hand edge of the area and hitting a full wedge when a low two-iron was required. Some of his gifts are intact – late in the first half he showed immaculate touch and composure to turn on the ball and leave three opponents stranded on the halfway line – but he enjoyed a lucky break two minutes after the interval when he tried to control Ashley Cole's diagonal ball but ending up by nudging it to Mata, whose deft shot gave Chelsea a short-lived lead.

The arrival of Drogba after 70 minutes saw Torres moved out to the right, in place of the withdrawn Sturridge, but it was noticeable that in the final, convulsive phase of the match, when Stockdale was bravely repelling a fusillade from Drogba, Raul Meireles and Florent Malouda, the Spaniard was merely a spectator.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/dec/26/fernando-torres-chelsea-loss-form

[Gibbo]

Just watched all his goals for us.

Ffs bring him home

[TheElephantMan]

I can't imagine him being allowed to return for a figure we would be prepared to pay. If he came back I would support him without question. It's not going to happen.