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tommynax wrote:just aswell your not the manager wed be i n g relagated youll eat dose stupid i n g words if we sign him FACT

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tommynax wrote:just aswell your not the manager wed be i n g relagated youll eat dose stupid i n g words if we sign him FACT

matrix wrote:

Rush Job wrote:

matrix wrote:

Rush Job wrote:Can someone please explain to me how this guy is the solution for us, have you seen his stats? It took him about three seasons to make an assist. He's not a bad player dont get me wrong but eveyones going on as if he's Owen mark 2 when it would be easyer and cheaper to get mark 1 and you'd have a prolific scorer somethink Torres aint. I hate to resort to this but if he was english would Rafa be willing to shell out 25 mill. I of course would like to be proved wrong but at the moment i see another Cisse.

do you have another striker in mind...

  torres is 23 years old,  he is still a baby...

  he will improve there is no doubt about that...

  more important he will join a team far  better than his current team...  he will look twice the player playing for liverpool...

torres has the world at his feet...   

For 30 mill i can think of a few cant you? After reading your post my comparison with Cisse sadly seems stronger. Do you really think he can put them away ala Owen, Fowler or the great man him self  when he scores on av about 15  for his home club in his home league, he dosnt make hardly any assists, some seasons none although he plays every game, and he spends more time on his than Heskey. So come on convince me he's worth it, have you even seen the lad play?

mate,  make your own mind up,  i dont want us to rip each other's  head's   off over torres...

but some hear are missing the point on torres...

he aint here to score 30 goals a season...

he will make a lot of goals for us,  as well as score them...

the real problem at liverpool is that we have been blessed with natural world class strikers in the past,  thats the real problem,  those guys dont come around to often,  dalglish, rush, fowler, owen,   

i just want to state that i have seen torres plenty of times   

Make my mind up about what? Look once again im not sayin the guys no good but the way people are going on like thats it were sorted up front is wrong, imo the higher our expertations are the more chance he will fail ( Cisse, Gonzales ) the big differance is they didnt cost close to 30m which brings its own presure. Look if he signs and starts poorly i be one of the guys saying give him time where half the folk gizin there draw over him now will be given it he's sack Rafa.

Rush Job wrote:And how do you know he will "make lots of goals" four of the seven seasons he's played he didnt make one assist. And yes ive seen plenty of him thats how i know he's a good player, but 25+mill? is he the best we can get?

im going to be honest mate,  it will be a gamble, life is a gamble,  but we really just have to trust rafa on this one...

2 weeks ago  i thought we might sign darren bent...   

the money is high,  but its not easy these days to get a good striker on the cheap,  that is proven,  not that im saying torres is totally proven...

  i will say that torres is a great prospect,  and i really hope it works...

and like you were saying  there will be people here who will blame rafa if he doesn't  show us the goods fairly quickly...

25 million is a shi.t load of money, and maybe no player is really worth that...

but thats football today, nani, 16 million. anderson, 15, million, bent 16, million...

but at the end of the day ive got to suport rafa if he signs torres...   

Rush Job wrote:And how do you know he will "make lots of goals" four of the seven seasons he's played he didnt make one assist. And yes ive seen plenty of him thats how i know he's a good player, but 25+mill? is he the best we can get?

matrix wrote:

Rush Job wrote:And how do you know he will "make lots of goals" four of the seven seasons he's played he didnt make one assist. And yes ive seen plenty of him thats how i know he's a good player, but 25+mill? is he the best we can get?

im going to be honest mate,  it will be a gamble, life is a gamble,  but we really just have to trust rafa on this one...

2 weeks ago  i thought we might sign darren bent...   

the money is high,  but its not easy these days to get a good striker on the cheap,  that is proven,  not that im saying torres is totally proven...

  i will say that torres is a great prospect,  and i really hope it works...

and like you were saying  there will be people here who will blame rafa if he doesn't  show us the goods fairly quickly...

25 million is a shi.t load of money, and maybe no player is really worth that...

but thats football today, nani, 16 million. anderson, 15, million, bent 16, million...

but at the end of the day ive got to suport rafa if he signs torres...   

Yes i agree, and neither of us got our " head ripped off". 

matrix wrote:2 weeks ago  i thought we might sign darren bent...   

maguskwt wrote:

Rush Job wrote:

maguskwt wrote:

Rush Job wrote:

sadly the reality is it does look like torres is the best we can get right now...

but hold your horses... we haven't even signed the bugger yet...

You think?  eventhough Hicks said on skysports ( cant remember word for word but when prest on available funds ) Rafa will get whatever funds he needs for whatever player, an unbelevable on the record statement to make. So is Torres the best we can get?                   

well... you do remember that later on they changed their tune to 'we won't be spending like drunken sailors' and 'we will be looking at specific players' which kinda means that we won't be going for superstars.

I do think that the reason we went for torres is because rafa thinks that he can fit in into our team in a specific role not because he's a superstar like eto'o or even villa. And we're paying very generous amounts for that.

Also we have to realize that just because we have funds available doesn't mean that we can get anyone. For example we would've never gotten henry even though he only cost barca 16 mil. It is highly unlikely we would have gotten eto'o (at least not this year) the player kept on saying he will stay. Regarding Tevez i'm not sure about what's happening there it seems to be very complicated procedure whoever wants to sign him. And also tevez didn't express any interest in us as far as we know he only expressed interest in arsenal and inter.

Who else is there? Berbetov? even though i like him to alot of ppl he is not much better than torres and torres is younger and hence got more potential... and also rafa doesn't seem to express any interest...

Anelka? more accomplished and could be a cheap option... but yeah we dont' know what rafa thinks about him

Owen? even though I like owen I prefer torres simply because of owen's fitness level right now (despite the discrepency in money involved)

Darren Bent? Overpriced and overhyped english market player... I don't think he's anywhere near torres in terms of ability...

Miroslav Klose? Would have been a good buy with a reasonable price... alas german players usually go to Bayern Munich, their football mecca, and not abroad...

Forlan? gimme a break... he can only succeed in spain... he's too wimpy to come back to england anyway... stay in spain enjoy your success while it lasts....

well I can go on but you get my drift... just because we have funds doesn't mean that we can just buy anyone... our interest has to match with the player's and the selling club's interest as well as favourable conditions like contract situations has to be met. It also depends alot on our appeal as a club and these days we're struggling hard to be a team with a better appeal than man u and chelsea and not to mention other big european clubs like madrid, barca, milan, inter...

I think your feelings come from not rating torres very highly... well if we do get him we just gotta see how he performs...