Liverpool Season 2010/11

[Bully]

he must have been chatting to a chicky babe in the crowd and forgot about his job. was clearly not offside .

[Swooper16]

Torres has apparently asked L'pool to "consider" chelsea's transfer offer. Will be disasterous for L'pool if they do have to end up selling.

[johntheclaret]

Suarez signed from Ajax for £23m

[smithy]

Torres hands in transfer request.

Suarez signed for 23 million

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/9380389.stm

[JK]

Torres has apparently asked L'pool to "consider" chelsea's transfer offer. Will be disasterous for L'pool if they do have to end up selling.

I reckon there's too much talk on this one for it to be off the mark, so I'd suggest there's a very real possibility he won't be at Anfield next season (and possibly earlier).

Apparently he has a 50-million quid exit clause should he leave after the season finishes, so Chelsea will be pushing hard to get the job done before the Jan window closes, offering no doubt better wage and the opportunity for Torres to play Champions League.

Almost reckon it's worth the LFC holding off until the season finishes when they can let the likes of Man City and Barca join the bidding.

[johntheclaret]

Chelsea have offered £35m
Listened to Anchelotti interview on the radio. Wouldn't take about but didn't deny it either.

[JK]

Chelsea have offered £35m
Listened to Anchelotti interview on the radio. Wouldn't take about but didn't deny it either.

I reckon he's worth more than that, I'd hold off til the end of the season

[smithy]

Whatever is upseting him, fix it please.

[JK]

Whatever is upseting him, fix it please.

They won't .. He wants an un-Liverpool like spending spree to fix things immediately .. The new owners won't over-capitalise and re-introduce problems of recent years (and rightly so), so unless FT has a change of heart I think he'll leave.

[smithy]

Whatever is upseting him, fix it please.

They won't .. He wants an un-Liverpool like spending spree to fix things immediately .. The new owners won't over-capitalise and re-introduce problems of recent years (and rightly so), so unless FT has a change of heart I think he'll leave.

From Tony Barrett“I think the relationship has broken down really fast between Torres and the club, the reality is Fernando Torres, over the past three years, has been promised the earth by officials of Liverpool and nothings been delivered. This problem has been inherited by the new owners and I think Torres has just come to the end of his tether.

[JK]

Let's hope Pepe isn't in the same boat .. If/when Torres leaves, we'll have lost some decent players in the last couple of years when you throw Alonso, Mascherano and fringies like Arbeloa into it.

Amazing that the damage of the Hicks and Gillette era can continue on so long after their departure.

[JK]

Tony Barrett
21:00 28/01/2011

By signing Luis Suárez for a club-record fee, Liverpool intended to do two things — give Fernando Torres the top-class strike partner he has been crying out for and prove to the Spain forward that their ambition matches his own.

The question now, after Torres informed Liverpool of his desire to leave Anfield yesterday, is whether they will appear in the same team.

Having wanted to leave Liverpool last summer only for his desire to be left unfulfilled by Chelsea’s inability to come up with the kind of offer that would tempt the Merseyside club to do business, Torres’s longing for a transfer has intensified during a season in which Liverpool have failed to live up to his and their aspirations.

The Torres camp has long seen Chelsea as the ideal destination for a player who has been coveted by Roman Abramovich for the past two seasons. Chelsea’s owner sees him as the key that can unlock the door to the Champions League success he craves. That is why the move for Torres has been made now; Abramovich wants to win the competition this season, before Chelsea’s ageing squad is broken up.

The other prime motive for Chelsea’s interest being hardened now is that Abramovich is hoping to avoid having to meet the £50 million release clause in Torres’s contract that will be activated at the end of the season if, as expected, Liverpool fail to qualify for the Champions League. There is also the small matter of Manchester City, Torres’s other long-time suitor, who would be ready to move in the summer and provide a challenge that Abramovich might not be able to match.

Torres’s yearning to leave is fuelled by a belief that Liverpool are not the same club as the one that he joined in July 2007. He feels that the damage done by Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr, the former owners, will take several years or a spending spree unprecedented by Liverpool’s standards to make them competitive again.

The Spaniard also feels that he has been let down by a series of promises not being kept and saw this season as the final chance for Liverpool to live up to his expectations. Seventh place in the Barclays Premier League was not what he envisaged.

The Torres problem is one that was inherited by Fenway Sports Group (FSG), which has owned Liverpool only since October. It did not insert the clause in his contract — that was done by Christian Purslow, the club’s former managing director — nor did it spark the spiral of decline that has pushed Torres to the Anfield exit door. FSG has shown a mixture of ambition and prudence in conducting the Suárez deal.

But Torres was looking to FSG to go on the kind of recruitment drive during January that would convince him to stay, as John W. Henry II, Liverpool’s principal owner acknowledged when he admitted that certain players “would prefer a quick fix”. Henry will be particularly disappointed with Torres’s decision.

The move for Suárez for a fee that could rise to £22.8 million was intended to be a statement of FSG’s intent, an indication that they are ready and willing to compete at the top end of the transfer market.

But with Torres making clear his intention to leave and Chelsea’s interest in the World Cup winner intensifying despite their opening offer being rebuffed, it is likely that even a club record purchase might prove too little, too late for Liverpool to keep El Niño.

[Jim05]

Torres and drogba on same team, cant see it. Drogba will sulk if he is not the center of attention and main man. Id give it a month before drogba hands in transfer request

[smithy]

drogba is approaching 33, Torres is 26.
I know who they'll keep.

Hopefully the signing of Suarez is a sign that quality additions to the squad will happen next off season and Torres will stay.
Too many broken promises so maybe too little too late.
Maybe he can have a word to Gerrard as to why he changed his mind about moving to Chelsea.

[Bully]

why would torres go to chelsea when there is big changes at liverpool. Why would he want to play champions league and challenge for the title when he can play at liverpool and struggle to make even the europa places

think you will find he will move on. And man city will offer double what chelsea would and he will go there. But then this would piss tevez off even more and he would put in for a transfer and then get another 30,000 pounds a week and stay

[JK]

why would torres go to chelsea when there is big changes at liverpool. Why would he want to play champions league and challenge for the title when he can play at liverpool and struggle to make even the europa places

think you will find he will move on. And man city will offer double what chelsea would and he will go there. But then this would piss tevez off even more and he would put in for a transfer and then get another 30,000 pounds a week and stay

Fingers crossed

[smithy]

Hopefully Torres changes his mind to strike up a wicked partnership with Suarez but it's looking unlikely.
General thoughts are 50 million plus Anelka and Chelski can have Torres.
Been a few "quotes" in the paper stating some players are sick of his sulking.
So we have a Berbatov and not a Rooney.

[Bully]

Hopefully Torres changes his mind to strike up a wicked partnership with Suarez but it's looking unlikely.
General thoughts are 50 million plus Anelka and Chelski can have Torres.
Been a few "quotes" in the paper stating some players are sick of his sulking.
So we have a Berbatov and not a Rooney.

anelka to liverpool??? I doubt he would go to pool mate

[smithy]

Hopefully Torres changes his mind to strike up a wicked partnership with Suarez but it's looking unlikely.
General thoughts are 50 million plus Anelka and Chelski can have Torres.
Been a few "quotes" in the paper stating some players are sick of his sulking.
So we have a Berbatov and not a Rooney.

anelka to liverpool??? I doubt he would go to pool mate

Those were the reports, not my thoughts, and checking this morning most are also agreeing with you that Anelka doesn't want to be part of the deal.

[smithy]

Fernando Torres is desperately trying to backtrack on his transfer request and may well stay at Liverpool after all.

Torres is said to be furious with his agent for putting in the transfer request AFTER Liverpool had done the deal to sign Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez from Ajax.

Now unless Liverpool are tempted by a near £60m bid for the Spanish World Cup winner's services, with Chelsea the only name in the frame at the moment, it is likely the two parties will get their heads together and work out a peace deal.

The prospect of Torres teaming up with Suarez is a mouth-watering one and he may be persuaded to stay, even though he is thought to be desperate to join a club where he can achieve his dream of winning trophies. That won't be helped by the fact that Liverpool are unlikely to be in the Champions League next season but with Suarez alongside him the trophy-winnig days might not be too far away if all parties can be patient.

Liverpool are also set to show another massive declaration of intent with an eleventh hour bid to land their number one target Ashley Young before today's deadline. But with Manchester United hovering in the wings and Villa set to offer Young a lucrative improved contract to stay, the final outcome is far from certain at the moment and anyone wanting Young will have to at least match Villa's £15m asking price to have any chance of landing him.