Blow it all on Torres (before Chelsea does)

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Looks like he's gonna miss start of the WC now as well according to BBC website:

Spain striker Fernando Torres may not be fit for the start of the World Cup, according to medical staff at his club side Liverpool.
The 26-year-old is recovering from surgery to repair knee cartilage torn in the 4-1 win over Benfica on 8 April.
"Whether he will be fit for the first game or not is uncertain," said Peter Brukner who is overseeing his recovery.
"But, if he continues to progress the way he is, he should be fit to play at some stage during the World Cup."
Spain's opening match in Group H is against Switzerland on 16 June.
 
Think of how Rooney and Torres would work together in a 4-4-2 :drool:

The only reason we play 4-3-3 so often is because incorporating Berba weakens the team.
 
07/08 we often played Ronaldo, Tevez, Giggs/Nani and Rooney as our front four
 
I agree there is a need for 4-3-3 on some occasions and that is why SAF bought Hargreaves and Anderson. But when he bought Tevez and later Berbatov it was to play a 4-4-2 predominantly, with adaptable players who can work well as a pairing, but with the intelligence to link to midfield. Berbatov just hasn't worked out most of the time in this sense. I think Torres and Rooney would work.
 
I must say, I was thinking of something totally different when I read the thread title. I need to get my mind out of the gutter!
 
Shit injury record otherwise cracking player. But yeah, he'd clearly move on to a better club given the chance.

I'd rather we got a centre midfielder though.
 
AdZzUtd said:
Rooney could slot into an attacking MF role. 2ndary Striker.

---Fletcher-------Hargreaves
-----------Rooney----------
Valencia----------------Nani
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That would just end up as a 442 with Rooney and Torres up front
 
Dr. Dwayne said:
1. Sure we do, it's in the prospectus.
2. The more the merrier
3. Saha, Hargreaves.
4. Never say never. The boy wants Champions League football.
5. There's no doubt about that.
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1. So you'd put us in further debt to sign a crock?
2. Except he wouldn't be there half the time.
3. Exactly!!!!! Nuff said.
4. Never
5. I doubt it.

Besides he's played for Liverpool and that makes him forever tainted.
 
Crumpsall Red said:
1. So you'd put us in further debt to sign a crock?
2. Except he wouldn't be there half the time.
3. Exactly!!!!! Nuff said.
4. Never
5. I doubt it.

Besides he's played for Liverpool and that makes him forever tainted.
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1. If it's a credit facility it is likely already arranged. Transfers are usually not paid in full at the time, anyway. I'm sure it would be structured debt that the club can live with.
2. I doubt it. He is over used at Liverpool and brought back too early too often.
3. I indicated them because we've been able to live with players who are bigger crocks.
4. If he wants to win, he'd do well to come here, it's us or Chelsea, really
5. To be fair he does represent value. His goals to appearances record for Liverpool says it all.

And for your last point I offer you:

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Dr. Dwayne said:
1. If it's a credit facility it is likely already arranged. Transfers are usually not paid in full at the time, anyway. I'm sure it would be structured debt that the club can live with.
2. I doubt it. He is over used at Liverpool and brought back too early too often.
3. I indicated them because we've been able to live with players who are bigger crocks.
4. If he wants to win, he'd do well to come here, it's us or Chelsea, really
5. To be fair he does represent value. His goals to appearances record for Liverpool says it all.

And for your last point I offer you:

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"Fit & Healthy" :lol: Love how that was 1st on the list.
 
Good player, but massive crock as well.

He had his chance to play for a top 4 team, instead he opted for mediocrity. His loss.
 
Various papers reporting Ancelotti is going to bid between 40 to 50 mil for him.
 
IMO we needs 2-3 players so can't really afford to employ the gay spannish pretty boy, though what a frightening striking pair rooney and torres would make as they are totally different players.
 
It's frightening to think what Chelsea will be like if they manage to get their grubby fingers on him.

I know he's a crock, but him + Drogba... :nervous:

Hope the rumors are just off season bollacks cause that's one transfer I don't want to see happen.
 
Alex said:
In fairness he is worth more
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He would be if he weren't injured so often. If he stayed fit for an entire season and had a decent team around him I can definitely see him scoring 40 goals a season. He doesn't take the penos and still manages to score close to a goal a game.
 
As much chance as Rooney going to Real.
Liverpool won't sell and we couldn't afford.
 
Dr. Dwayne said:
1. If it's a credit facility it is likely already arranged. Transfers are usually not paid in full at the time, anyway. I'm sure it would be structured debt that the club can live with.
2. I doubt it. He is over used at Liverpool and brought back too early too often.
3. I indicated them because we've been able to live with players who are bigger crocks.
4. If he wants to win, he'd do well to come here, it's us or Chelsea, really
5. To be fair he does represent value. His goals to appearances record for Liverpool says it all.

And for your last point I offer you:

owen1.jpg
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No way :lol: Has that one been slightly edited? Cool!? :lol: What relevance does that have to playing football.
 
Even though he is a crock, and hardly played this season he managed to score 18 league goals. On his day he is undoubtedly the best striker in the world.
 
Fernando Torres will be the subject of a world record bid from Chelsea within days.


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Fernando Torres wants Champions League football

The total package of transfer fee and salary will make Torres a staggering £130 million investment. And Soccernet has been informed that owner Roman Abramovich is personally taking control of the project to bring the Liverpool striker to Chelsea.

Torres has been linked with Chelsea, Manchester City, Barcelona and Real Madrid for a some time but the Blues will be first to make a concrete offer.

Abramovich is ready to release the cash following a Premier League and FA Cup double this season, but he is also acutely aware he could cut an alternative deal with Liverpool in need of new players.

Chelsea are willing to offer three players in part exchange, as an option to smooth through the Torres transfer.

Abramovich is also prepared to match City's expected offer to Torres of £200,000-a-week, which is being mooted via the middle men now authorised to try and clinch the deal.

An insider told Soccernet: "Torres is the best, and Roman wants the best. He has identified Torres as the player who can help him bring the Champions League to Stamford Bridge.

"Torres can go to City for just as much money perhaps even more, but it's clear that Chelsea offer far more in terms of a crack at the Champions League whereas City aren't even in it."

Chelsea are drawing up a list of players to offer to Liverpool in part exchange for Torres that could take the overall transfer value above the £80 million world record Real Madrid paid for Cristiano Ronaldo.

The deal could be structured like this; pick any three players from a specified list plus £40 million cash up front for Torres. That offer, according to Soccernet sources, will be made well ahead of the World Cup finals in South Africa, and most likely early next week.

With the three players averaging around £15 million each, the total valuation of the Torres offer would be in excess of the Ronaldo fee.

Abramovich is personally spearheading the quest to land Torres, and his manager Carlo Ancelotti will consider which players to use as bait to tempt Liverpool: Jose Bosingwa, Nicolas Anelka, Ricardo Carvalho, Deco, Salomon Kalou and Paulo Ferreira.

Anelka is the one player the Italian coach might be reluctant to offer up and, of course, the Frenchman might not wish to return to Anfield - although he has expressed regret at failing to win a permanent move to the club after spending a loan spell on Merseyside.

Manchester City are also in a position to offer Liverpool a shopping list of swap players, as well as a cash payment in excess of Chelsea's, but the prospect of joining the Double winners and a club intent on landing the Champions League would be far more appealing.

Liverpool owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett are battling with losses of £54.9 million, a net debt of £351 million, no Champions League football and with new chairman Martin Broughton an appointee of the club's bank RBS, a £40 million cash-plus-players bid for their star asset will clearly be accepted.

Ironically, Broughton is a Chelsea season ticket holder, and any decision to sell would inevitably make him unpopular at Anfield.

Such is the ground work being prpeared at the Bridge for the Torres bid, that star striker Didier Drogba is already ready to welcome him to the club.

"Of course I would welcome Torres," Drogba said last week. "Every time a new player comes here, it makes the club bigger and gives us a lot of strength. If there is a chance for him to come here, he will be welcome, because any help is welcome.''




Chelsea ready to make their move for Torres - Transfers - ESPN Soccernet
 
He's good when he's fit.

Still, considering that just one more goal in the right game would have handed us the title this year, I'm sure he'd be good for that.
 
Would be the best striker we could buy.

No way 1) Liverpool will sell. 2) He will play for us. 3) We can afford him.
 
VoetbalWizard said:
chelsea will get one of kaka, torres, pato, or aguero.
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They're practically nailed on for Aguero, but I think they wanted Pato, too. However, the availablity of Torres - plus Milan's reticence when it comes to selling - means I think they'll get him.

Think about it. Chelsea haven't actually had a big summer spending spree for a good few years, and that was partly because Roman's fortune seriously dwindled. It's right back where it was now, though, so there's no reason for him not to spend like he did before, and given that the squad his last spree bought is now beginning to age, he's going to buy young, he's going to buy talented, and he's going to buy expensive.

Nothing's going to get him pumped up and ready to spend like a league and cup double.
 
Torres has been linked with Chelsea, Manchester City, Barcelona and Real Madrid for a some time but the Blues will be first to make a concrete offer.
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No they haven't. That cash + players stuff sounds like trading card playground dealing rather than a football transfer.
 
Would depress me if he went to Chelsea. Not that we have any chance of signing him, but hoped he'd feck off abroad again.

Although to be honest, if they sign just some of their rumored targets it's gonna be a tad depressing.
 
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