Disappointment was etched over Fernando Torres’s face during the Chelsea match last Sunday. The season for Liverpool has been nothing short of abject failure and it is certainly something the Reds striker would not have expected after the club came so close to the title last season. Liverpool’s failures this season have inevitability led to speculation over some of the club’s best players’ futures, and along with rumours of a £30million bid from Real Madrid for Steven Gerrard, there has also been newspaper reports about a £70million deal for Torres from Chelsea.
Now, I am not the first one to waste my time criticising newspapers who make up stories to sell copies, but the rumours around Fernando Torres have been verging on the ridiculous, considering none of the stories linking him with moves away from Anfield have any shred of evidence indicating that a sale is on the cards. Normally of course, no evidence doesn’t stop newspapers writing such articles but in this case they haven’t even bothered to quote insiders or sources to back up their claims.
Both John Edwards in the Daily Mail and David Maddock in the Daily Mirror have written stories stating Torres wants to leave the club, but bizarrely for completely opposite reasons. In the former’s case, an entire column is dedicated to claiming that Torres has intimated he will leave the club for £70million if the club doesn’t back Benitez and his demands for a bigger transfer budget. Edward’s article tries to cover all bases by stating ‘he may be prepared to tolerate one more season without Champions League football’ but there are no quotes from people “close to Torres” or “Liverpool officials” that the striker has suggested that he will leave if Rafa doesn’t get what he wants.
On the other side, you have David Maddock who has decided to take the opposite viewpoint on why Torres wants to leave. He states that Torres’s relationship with Rafa Benitez has “deteriorated” to such an extent that he would be more likely to stay if the Spanish manager left for Juventus. Again there is not even a quote in the article from any unnamed source about Torres wanting to leave. All he uses is a Guillem Balague quote that says that “Fernando Torres’ future is not linked to Rafa’s”. A quote that Balague believes himself was taken out of context to mean that he wanted to leave the club, when all it meant was that Torres wouldn’t always go where Rafa Benitez went.
In the end we don’t know whether Fernando Torres wants to leave Liverpool Football Club or not, but these sort of reports are so speculative it really puts questions in our minds as to why they were written.
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Me too mate, i guess everyone of our world class(really good) players are linked with a move out from yossi benayoun to aquilani to gerrard and torres its a joke. I dont get how papers are allowed to publish such blatent lies and use such headlines to make it sound like the player was quoted himself absolute joke!
What I cannot understand, is why the media always seem to have it in for Liverpool FC, could it possibly have something to do with the ‘Sun’, being banned in Liverpool?……maybe we should ban all southern papers and, hit them where it hurts…financily!!.
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just ban all cockneys…
Here, here. I’m just glad the World Cup is coming up so we won’t have endure an entire summer of nothing but these clowns spewing fabrication after fabrication.
Look at the facts:
1. Torres loves Liverpool.
2. He owes Liverpool at least another season seeing he has only played around 56% of Liverpools games over his 3 seasons at the club.
3. He has stated previously he would not go to another Premiership side.
4. If he went to Spain only place he could go is Barcelona. He wouldnt go Real Madrid due to Atletico due to rivalary.
5. Why go to Italy the Elephant graveyard of Football.(MLS aside).
Media drive me mad. Man Ure in more debt with a aging side on the decline why dont they go start writing stories about Rooney wanting to leave.
Already come out today that we wont be selling either Torres or Gerrard.
The Daily Mail article is absolutely mischevious to say the least. Anyone reading the headline would assume that Torres has actually made a statement but in the article itslef there is not even one quote. I am reaaly happy that you have highlighted some of the devious tactics of the media to destabalise our club. Perhaps some of our less discerning fans can be less believing when they read future rubbish regarding squad, manager, spending etc.
good news, please some good news, we are pleading please give us some good news and not the transfer rumors. Tell us that money is coming, and a few good players for a FACT.
The Daily Mail is actually starting a campaign on this “Torres will leave.” There’s like 4 or 5 articles talking about that. On how Rafa wants to use the 70 mil from his sale, Martin Keown talking on the loss to Liverpool “when” he leaves, not even “if”, the aforementioned John Edwards one and more everyday. It’s grotesque how can they attack a football club like that just because they smell blood on the water. I can imagine their editorial meetings organizing a planned joint attack, because it’d give them weeks of bulls**t to talk about that, just adding more and more to the fire without any, ANY evidence at all. It’s like a snowball, without any snow… maybe a s***ball. They do have good writers, but they’re so mischievous that you cant believe them anymore. Sad.
As a gooner I understand you frustrations, likewise I have seen many Pool fans giving it big about Fabregas leaving because Arsenal never win anything so if you will allow me my moment…aaaaahhhhhh. Seriously though of all the talk about why Torres would stay, my question is why would he stay? Owners at war with each other and the manager, no money, no Champions League, no stadium plans, no squad, no money to improve squad, no sale likely to happen for a while, club has no identity anymore, no plans for the future. If I was one of the top rated strikers in the world well, I’d grab my lifejacket and jump ship.
“If I was one of the top rated strikers in the world well, I’d grab my lifejacket and jump ship.”
Sounds like Mike would make a good City/Chelsea glory hunter.
Sounds like Mike would make a good City/Chelsea glory hunter.
hahahaha most of the liverpool fans are cockneys and from other areas and have supported liverpool from the successful days of shankley and paisley isnt that what a glory hunter is ?
you will find chelsea fans are from london and surrounding areas and man city fans are from manchester and surrounding areas
and as far as torres is concerned he is a intelligent guy if he stays another season you will be very lucky
you all took the pee out of man city attempting to buy kaka and other such players saying about history
well lets see history win you the champions league spot that keeps you alive and above the debt zone that is crippling your club
with no funds and a poor squad looks like the only option is to sell players to buy players and that is what rafa is demanding from the board
who do you think he can sell for good money so he can rebuild the squad ?
I’m A lifelong Liverpool fan and I love Torres, but I reckon Mikie’s got some points. The boy loves Liverpool but the signs heading into the future aren’t so good. Like Stevie G, Torres wants success with Liverpool, but is a small chance of success at Anfield better than guaranteed success at Barca? I hope so. Thats why these rubbish articles are written, because, despite a lack of any real substance or evidence, common sense kinda does lend its weight to the argument. Leave speculation for the opinion page though. No journalistic integrity.