By KP
With the green shoots of recovery seemingly underway, the rug was well and truly yanked from under our feet’s by the sudden transfer request from Fernando Torres. Even with signing of Luis Suarez in the pipeline, supporters were hoping that Torres would come to his senses, but it was not to be. For the third consecutive year Liverpool supporters have seen a world class player leave and at least this time the club reacted to keep away potential allegations that we had become a selling club.
The question still needs to be asked is why the club waited so long to become active in the transfer market? Andy Carroll is a part of this equation, not because he was bought to replace Torres, but the fact that we have had to pay substantially over the odds shows the position the club is in. We had no option, but to go for a striker with Premiership experience, but the rub was that with no top class options available, it was essential to bring someone in; even it is one with little experience in real terms, but enormous potential.
Increased bids for Charlie Adam and another rumoured to be for Micah Richards, makes one wonder why these bids were not made at an earlier juncture? It seems as if the club is flailing in quicksand, instead of doing their business early and by-passing the long sand pit that is deadline day. A Carroll and Suarez strike force is potentially very exciting, but the muddled transfer policy before Dalglish, has put the club in the position whereby, in Carroll we have arguably the most lethal offensive aerial threat in the a league, with no quality wide man to supply the ammunition.
Dalglish may well be forced to play Glen Johnson further up the pitch, utilizing Carroll strengths in a similar way to which Spurs use Peter Crouch to provide knock downs for the onrushing van der Vaart.
We can blame Torres for the timing of his transfer request, but the thrilling nature of his play at his best is why we are all feeling disappointed and the fact he is going to a direct rival makes it even harder to stomach knowing that he will almost certainly push them forward. He may well say he’s leaving us in a good position, but for many of us, there is only one Fernando Torres, even with a bitter taste in our mouths. As a friend said to me earlier about the Fulham game which we attended, “I can’t believe that the match against Fulham, is the last time we’ll ever see Torres in a Liverpool shirt”.
KP
Monday 31 Janauary 2011
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ReplyDeleteI am gutted Torres as now left, he put in a transfer request and he followed it through.
ReplyDeleteWatching him at the Fulham for the last time in a Red shirt seems like only few days ago.
However, that just summed it up for him even though we one, with an own goal we struggled to play against a team sitting 15th.
We have let three-world class players leave Anfiled for various reasons, but did not see this one coming, especially just after some progress.
Torres has not left on a high, likes of Carlos Tevez and Christian Ronaldo did when they left, but no doubt, he will be banging goals away for the blues.
End of day the FT wants to contend for silverware, as he David Ville talked about this after the world cup how important it was to get silverware at their clubs.
Torres has looked unmotivated this season as Liverpool have fallen from the top four and far from challenging for the EPL title.
A move to Chelsea will put him with a strong side that has midfielders Essien & Lampard that can provide him service up top.
It will be up to the individual Liverpool fan to respect his move or see him as a traitor!
Good Buy Fernando Torres you are now officially a player for Chelsea
I totally believe that we will lose Reina if we do not miraculously end up in the top 4 this season. I feel that King Kenny has done a marvellous job in such a short space of time getting us into contention for the European places. With the Spanish contingent slowly being replaced in the LFC dressing room Reina will not feel as closely attached to the club.
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