The Torres Debate

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I’m quite sure that almost every Liverpool Fan has more than enough of this poor season. And the situation gets even worse, because we do not really know who is responsible for all the misery. The owners? For sure. The manager? In some way … The players? As far as I’m concerned, well … they are the main actors in this play called football. I know this will cause a lot of comments, so I’d like to admit rapidly, that I do not blame ONLY the players for the poor, poor season, but in several matches, it was their lack of performance and commitment and passion which led the team to bad results.

I wish it wasn’t the case. I wish our lads could be more confident and more proud of their season’s performance. I wish we mustn’t read all those stupid articles about Stevie, Torres and Rafa leaving. I wish we mustn’t take part those meaningless discussions about Torres on or off the pitch and is/was Rafa right or not? The media tend to blow up the smallest mistake and mishap into a national tragedy and we (the fans) are stupid enough taking part in it.

Well, we can’t change the result anyway, so what’s the point? Why do we spend or time on this?

After the encounter with Birmingham last Sunday The Times wrote:

“Fernando Torres spent most of the 45 minutes moaning and groaning at perceived injustices, making a mockery of his illustrious standing in the world game. If body language counts for anything, he is one unhappy Spaniard, a mood not helped when he picked up an injury to his right knee and was replaced by David Ngog in the 65th minute.”

Hmmm… yeah, maybe. But if it was so, I’d understand his behavior, would you? I mean: so many disappointments, so much bad luck, so long injured. Who wouldn’t be in bad mood? Of course, as a well paid footballer he should do the best out of the worst situation. Albeit, the most of us tend to forget that Liverpool FC isn’t only Torres and 10 blokes more. And it also isn’t Torres, Stevie and 9 more. It’s a team. If there’s someone to blame, than it’s the whole team. Not only a single person. Neither Rafa, nor Torres or Stevie.

“The look of puzzlement on Torres’s face, like a little boy lost amid the general malaise at Anfield, said it all.”

Yes, that’s true. Liverpool is in deep crisis but those silly and meaningless debates it will not get better! It won’t change precisely nothing!

Can you remember the picture of Torres, while he was still playing for Atletico Madrid, which was taken after his last match against Barcelona? After this crucial match which Atletico lost badly and Atletico fans were actually happy about that? That was the point, when Torres finally decided to sign for us. He was tired of the situation in his beloved club. He was frustrated and he has had enough.

Torres was Atletico’s captain and all the pressure and disappointments were down to him to sort them out. The fans were expecting miracles from him which obviously wasn’t possible. It never is. The team was actually Torres and 10 other guys. Way too much responsibility and pressure for a 19-year old lad to . The signing for Liverpool was supposed to be a sort of relief; it was an escape from the stress.

Well, my worst fear is that the situation at Anfield could become similar to Torres’ past in Spain. That he’ll be made responsible for the team’s failures. That could make him want to escape from Liverpool. The history would repeat itself and who wants this to happen? Not me! I do not even want to think about …

I hope Liverpool will be able to win something in the Europe League and reach the 4th place in the Premier League as well. Though, even if they don’t … we cannot change that, we cannot force the results, we’re only fans.

The most … I wish our silly poor season to be completed. So that we can start a new, and hopefully, a better one.

YNWA

-Amanda

amanda@empireofthekop.com

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10 Comments

  1. very true about the similarity of the situations. He needs to be relieved of the burden and that can only happen if we get new owners, as we need fresh blood which poverty struck H&G can’t afford.

  2. I wont blame torres for leaving. and i doesnt mean that if rafa leaves he will also leave that is bs. If torres leaves its coz of rafa incompetence in the transfed market. selling quality and buying crap. out> keane, crouch, bellamy, xabi. IN> ngog, lucas, maxi, aquilani.

    1. Maxi was not bought, he was a free transfer.

      Bellamy was sold to buy Torres so I guess Tahir thinks that Torres is crap then because we sold Bellamy to buy him.

  3. No I think I can blame him, yes it’s frustrating, maybe he thought at this point of the season we could have run away the league and been in the semi’s in the CL but we aren’t and Torres really needs to adjust his attitude accordingly. Yes we rely on Torres for goals, but then we brought Keane in as a partnership, and while Keane might not have got many goals as far as I’m concerned the partnership would have worked, but Torres outed in the papers saying he didn’t want a partner, so maybe he wants to sholder the responsibility. One thing Liverpool fans seem to forget is that he was an AVERAGE goal scorer in Spain, the Premier League suits him to a tee! He never netted over 20 in LaLiga and surely Rafa has been able to bring the best out of him, but his persistant moaning on the pitch and off needs to stop, the staff and the players all need to start communicating about this, as there are too many players moaning. We all understand this season has been horrid, but it’s how we come back next year, who knows maybe the Cowboys might let Rafa have some money, he might pick up a few decent buys in the summer and Torres will be happy with the strength of the squad. But for his childish antics on the field need to stop, he’s become a world class striker, so teams will set out to stop him, like they did in the Birmingham game, I’m suprised Rafa didn’t bring him off sooner but we know he won’t make drastic changes till the last half an hour.

    It’s the fans that are putting the weight on his sholders to carry, we have too high expectations, I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, but we having been sucessfully domestically for a long time, and things do have to change at the club, but it needs to start with the players attitudes.

  4. Ngog, Maxi and Aqua aren’t crap. And yes, Maxi was for free. You forgot Glen, Tahir.

  5. Just to let you know Torres isn’t the captain, so he doesn’t have the burden! If people talk about Bellamy, you all want Riera to go for what he did, Bellamy attacked a player with a golf club, so if you want Riera out, Bellamy had to go, and we got the money to fund Fernando. Every Liverpool fan wanted to Keane to go cause he wasn’t scoring, and even Torres wanted to be the lone striker and didn’t want a partner.

    We have to move on with Xavi, he’s gone, yes partially Rafas fault for wanting Barry etc but we made a profit. Maxi was free btw, and I don’t understand why people think he’s crap, he’s adapted to the English game quicker than most players do.

  6. I do know that Torres isn’t the captain. You’re missing the point, Steve. But he’s out top-scorer and club’s star and the stars usually have the biggest part of burden for mistakes, failures, no goals etc. If he was the captain, it’d be even worse, I guess.

    Do not miss the point, Steve, please. I didn’t say the situation is the same: It’s similar!!

  7. You said debate in the title yet your writing leaves me wondering what to debate. I didn’t miss the point just mearly pointing out if he is feeling the pressure and burden, then he needs to let himself off. I don’t pile any pressure on him, yes I love to see him score if he doesn’t it’s not the end of the world. He must be piling the pressure on himself, as Stevie doesn’t look stressed, so maybe your debate should be, should Torres be the captain? Or maybe no debate at all.

  8. maybe I should have call it “the debate in the media” ’cause there was a plenty of them. you totaly misunderstood me. You will say no, but you did. So let’s just leave it like that

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