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red_guy wrote:Seriously, i don't expect him to be our magical , world class striker like rushie or robbie did. Just hope he can improve since we have a group of the best players in the league to assist him. Just wish that he's not going to be another Cisse....

wavertree wrote:I do not like Fernando Torres. I think that he was very expensive. One Liverpulian saids to me: "Captain of Atletico at 22. Which suggests a certain character". But I think that in Spain he was not captain for character, he was captain for the radio, the newspaper and the tv, made to him a God.
He is not a bad footballplayer but I am not waiting any surprise of him.

stmichael wrote:When you see the goal that Torres scored for us the other day, and how Rafa was trying to make Bellamy do similar things last season, you can see the huge gulf in class between the two players.

And I say that despite the fact that I actually like Bellamy. I think he has good qualities that when used properly can be very dangerous.

program77 wrote:Hello from Spain. I will talk you about Torres.

He acts like a crack, he has the self-confidence of a crack, he has the speed of a crack, he has an amount of fans like a crack, he worth like a crack, but, my friends, he is not a crack. You will see it early (in fact, you is already seeing).



(excuse me my poor english. Crack = chaps like Ronaldinho, Etoo, Zidane, and so on).

Sabre wrote:Nah, he doesn't sound bitter at all, he just sounds like a poster that likes Liverpool and isn't too sure about Torres impact.

By act as a crack, -I think- he means that he's willing to assume that he's an important player, an important striker. The poster also acknowledges his pace, that he has a lot of fans -he was very popular in his former team- but he's simply saying that he doubts he'll score a lot of goals like a world class striker should do.

Watching Torres is a pleasure in many ways, he makes difficult controls while running at pace, he has the dribling, and he has a range of different skills to finnish, but IMHO he fails to have a killer instict that Fowler, Aldo or Owen DID have.

I've seen good strikers failing miserably in England. Shechenko is a top striker that failed, even Morientes failed miserably. Kuyt, for me a very good striker is named a workhorse because he didn't make a total impact in the first season. It's complicated to come and triumph, and I'd rather have more confidence in Eto'o or Henry doing such an impact in Liverpool rather than Torres.

That doesn't mean I don't wish the best for Torres, I hope he'll score hat tricks every 15 days and we can all laugh about my doubts. I cross fingers for that.

Sabre wrote:

wavertree wrote:I do not like Fernando Torres. I think that he was very expensive. One Liverpulian saids to me: "Captain of Atletico at 22. Which suggests a certain character". But I think that in Spain he was not captain for character, he was captain for the radio, the newspaper and the tv, made to him a God.
He is not a bad footballplayer but I am not waiting any surprise of him.

Yes, crack is a word we didn't use at the eighties, but some idiot brought to Spain to replace the local word "figura". It doesn't even have a good connotation in english, so I cannot really understand why we imported the word.

And... *cough* I agree what you say mate, and hopefully I'm wrong. No doubt he'll improve what Bellamy provided by miles, but, Liverpool has paid quite a lot and I doubt people will be happy if he doesn't put the league on fire.