He cheated on us. Liverpool and the fans were in a relationship with Fernando Torres and he cheated on us. Not only did he cheat on us, he did it with one of our enemies- Chelsea. Like in most unfaithful relationships I believed him when he said he was “as committed to the club and its fans as he was the first day he joined”. I thought that this man was going to be the next Ian Rush or Kenny Dalglish. But instead he broke our hearts.
Like in any typical ex relationship at first I hoped that he would be miserable with his new club/whore Chelsea. I hoped that he would come running back to us and we would accept him because he was once a big part of who we are and we do not let anyone walk alone. But now I’ve gotten more realistic. I hope he’s happy with his new relationship. I hope he gains something from being there and that he is successful (but not as successful as us).
We’re moving on. We are courting new players. He left us with a good alimony; enough for us to get by and get fresh players in our club. We are starting a new relationship with Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll. As in any relationship after an adulterous one, I am a little insecure. I think that maybe Suarez and Carroll will do the same thing as Torres and Owen and leave us for one of our rivals. I hope that this man is different, that he will be more faithful to us. He will make us the best possible club we can be. We will never know the future. We can only have faith that everything will work out for us.
This is suppose to be a bit satirical, but in all seriousness, we, the fans of Liverpool FC, have been blessed with faithful players (granted the few exceptions) for most of our history. We have been incredibly lucky and much more fortunate than other clubs. Our past players’ loyalty has made the betrayal of Torres more hurtful because it is something we are thankfully not use to. And since this is something that we don’t have to deal with every transfer window it has made me more cautious about being totally reliant on Suarez. I just hope the future of Liverpool is as bright as the past. So I would like to propose a toast the man wearing the legendary no. 7 and Liverpool’s new no. 9; may they find happiness and support with us and play like champions. YNWA
I believe he has played all season long with the intentions of leaving us. I would not be surprised at all if Chelsea tapped him up prior to the season starting. He has played like he didn’t care so in my opinion we are better off without him. I don’t think there is any room at the club for a quitter.
Thank god that we at last have a real football man in charge in King Kenny who has vowed to bring back old ways. Hopefully the owners will understand and read the history of the club and cherish it. They for sure have backed the King in this transfer window. I believe it will take about 21/2 years for the King to bring back the glory days and I pray he is given that time.
It’s onward to glory with King Kenny and good riddence to the cheat.
Amen and cheers to that
Steve Gerrard is reported to have advised Nando that a move to Chelsea was right “Don’t make my mistake and believe you’ll win trophies here” With hindsight, Stevie would have done exactly the same if he was three or four years younger. Did Torres let down Liverpool OR did Liverpool let down Torres with their reliance of history instead of looking ahead to the future. Was Gerrard spot on with his advise?
YEAH!!!! YNWA
I am disappointed more with the way in which it was all done by Torres.
Even if you are unhappy and want a change to state loyalty and then on the eleventh hour deliver such a blow lacks professionalism and reeks of greed and immaturity.
The timing of the transfer request seemed planned to leave Liverpool in the lurch without time to find a suitable replacement.
I don’t honestly think he’ll be particularly happy at Chelsea after the honeymoon period, the set up is very different there but he made his choice.
Personally I’m glad he’s gone if he didn’t want to stay with us that’s fine. I think we’ll do well with our brilliant new players. I’m exited to see them play just as I’ve been counting down the days to see the every “next match” since Kenny returned.
My memory of Torres will be of him grovelling on the floor as he slips over yet again when tackling, which seems to me to have been the sum total of his efforts this season and as for his declaration “I’m now at one of the top clubs in the world” well we all know that Chelsea can’t even come close to our glorious history but wouldn’t they just love to?
We’ve had a struggle over the past couple of years mainly caused by bad ownership then a short period of bad managership but now, and we all feel it, were on our way up to a new golden age at Liverpool Football Club. So I say a huge welcome to Suarez and Carrol I can’t wait to see you both play in Liverpool red!
Brilliant post!!!
It is a real kick in the balls, but in true break-up fashion, we can see that there’s plenty of other fish in the sea, and in a few months, we’ll all realise that the relationship was on a slippery slope for a long time.
Initially, I was gutted (my son has ‘Torres’ on his first LFC top, and as he is 4 is convinced now he needs to follow Chelsea (I think it’s time he moved out)), but if someone had told me a week ago that we would have a choice to make between Suarez and Carroll, or Sir Sulks-A-Lot Torres, I would have asked where to sign. Still a fully committed Suarez/Torres partnership would have been lethal.
I think that it’s a shame that he was not the player and team man we all thought. Perhaps he just got bad advice and thought he was being fed further lies by the club. All we can hope for is that he lies to regret his decision to leave…
“…He left us with a good alimony; enough for us to get by and get fresh players in our club…” I love it. :D
“Steve Gerrard is reported to have advised Nando that a move to Chelsea was right “Don’t make my mistake and believe you’ll win trophies here””
Well, I’d rather become legendary in LFC then winning every trophy in the world.
I was gutted Torres wanted to leave, but hey if you dont want to wear the shirt then jog on, Chelskie have not got the history we have and with King Kenny in charge I can see us even winning the prem, just hope what happens to Owen happens again here, he went to what he thought were greener pastures and we won our 5th European Cup
What I fail to understand in all this is why Liverpool fans seem to think their club require more loyalty by players than any other. Newcastle fans have more reason to be annoyed after all Carrol is a home town boy. Torres has no other connection to Liverpool than having played there. We wants to win trophies, somethng Liverpool have shown they incapable of doing. Was Alonso a traitor for leaving Sociodad, Rush for leaving Chester, Suarez for leaving Ajax?
I’m sure trophies and medals matter a lot in a footballer’s career, but what do you think those medals stand for? They just stand for how good a player was and how he was a part of a winning team.
Gerrard has already established himself as the best midfielder I’ve ever seen play. His decision not to leave his boyhood club makes him even more great. He doesn’t need anymore medals or trophies to prove how good a player he is. He’s a legend and the whole world will remember our Captain Fantastic for a long long time.
The way I see it the sudden hatred of Torres is due to the way he left the club. If he had proclaimed earlier that he wanted to leave I am sure most people would have been alright with it. Also leaving for Chelsea is in my eyes worse than leaving for Man U.
”Chelsea represents all that Liverpool are not, with their unfettered millions, manufactured Stamford Bridge atmosphere and a history that pales in sorry comparison to that of Liverpool’s” – Luke Traynor, liverpoolecho”
Let’s not ‘boo’ him when he plays against us. It’ll only make him more determined to prove us wrong. He can have the medals he claimed he craves at Chelsea. But can those synthetic supporters show the same adulation that we Kopites have given him? I know it’s difficult. Even I find it hard to swallow after what he did. If we are the best supporters that we always claim we are, let’s just show him just that. Who knows maybe in his heart of heart he realized we (the supporters) didn’t deserved any of these.
Frankly, I think this was the best for all parties. He is still a Red at heart (no doubt about this) and I can see how he was grown disillusioned over the institutional situation at the club over the past couple of years. He gets a fresh start and the club gets a much needed cash injection (£50 m. is a lot of money). I am sure that he has spent a few sleepless nights over the past few weeks but he did the right thing for himself and for the club.
I know that he would have never gone to Everton or Man Utd. the same way when he was playing for Atlético he swore that he would never play for Real Madrid. Come on folks! This is a guy that married the girlfriend he had since he was 16 (not very common with players with such a high profile). I do not question his loyalty, and I know that he was convinced that he was doing the right thing for everybody. He’ll never walk alone..
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Torres has shown more love for LFC than the real traitor Owen, who loves money more than life.
It is the owners who failed LFC and Torres: look at all their promises for strengthening the squad – have they fulfilled it?
NESV bought LFC on the cheap, this would given the club more funds to spend now that the debt was cancelled. Did they buy anyone significant before Torres handed his transfer? No!!!!
Takes the club so bloody long to finalise a deal. Always looking for a discoun! If the Suarez deal was tied up in early Jan and Torres and Suarez played a few games together there is no way that he would wanted to leave because LFC would have really taken an upturn.
Why not pay that 12-16 mill for Adam or 18n mill for Ashely Young? With every deal we are looking for big discounts. Trying to save pennies we lost pounds in the deal for Carrol. What a bloody joke 36 million plus add – ons!!!!
And what monies of their own did the owners spend? Here again we sold to buy…sounds familiar???? Worse than Hicks and Gillete…
Where was the 35 million promised for Jan transfers, before selling players?
No good R/Wing, no good L/Back…. back to square one!!!!
I blogged on various sites when the REDS were taken over by the ‘SECOND COMING’ of ‘yanks’that it would prove to be the same as the first lot! They hav’n’t spent a ‘DIME’of their own money! WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING FROM GATE RECEIPTS ETC;,that is’n’t now required to pay off the loan that G & H took out! Probably to pay the $140,000,000 contracts for ‘RED SOCKS’ players etc: And it will take very little time to get back the GBP300,000,000 for the purchase of the club!!! Gillett & Hicks all over again !!!
Torres ‘WAS LET DOWN BY YANKS’ who have no idea of dealings in European football! promise’s given by managers who thought they would get the backing of YANKIE owners,but instead were given miniscule amounts to buy with! The latest yanks have used Torres money to buy,and were too slow in the transfer market!Had they put up their own money to buy Suarez before the deadline then Torres would not have requested a transfer because he would then have known they meant business! They played it exactly how they wanted by using Torres money to buy others! Torres did not want his transfer request known until a realisation that Suarez was’n’t arriving,but his greedy agent presented the transfer request early knowing ‘HE’ would get a nice big backhander! ‘ALL A MATTER OF TIMING’! THE ‘yanks’and the ‘agent’ and ‘Chelsea’ all got what they were after ! LFC and Torres were ‘conned’ !
I agree with your post, but I have been hearing a lot of negativity in regards to signing Suarez from a lot of “Liverpool” fans though. It’s a shame because honestly they will have to eat their words. I have absolute faith in both our new forwards. This is what they need NOW, support. A forwards needs it daily for energy. Suarez, especially, He is Uruguayan and in South America they are known to have a “never say die” attitude. He will be an absolute hit at Anfield, remember me when it happens. 8)