** Official ** Summer 2010 Transfer Thread - Signings, Sightings and Rumor's in Here

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"Unfortunately, I cannot do much more," Hodgson said. "His beef is with the club and not me.

"Fernando's situation has nothing to do with me, he made that perfectly clear over the phone during the World Cup and when I met him face-to-face.

"He knows what I would like to do with the club. He knows how much I value him.

"But his issues are with what has gone on in the past rather than the future.

"If he has problems with the club for things in the past, it is difficult for me to dismiss that."
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I presume it's quite genuine?
 
I'd imagine his 'beef' is with Purslow/the Owners for being lied to for the last 18 months regarding investment in the side, the ownership etc.

Several times he's been told the club is about to be sold or receive new investment and we'd be able to compete in the transfer market, only for it to be BS.
 
DanH84 said:
soccernet and eurosport i read it on.
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Ah, just media talk then. Media who have a track record of taking and presenting things out of context to make a stronger piece of "news".

I'll wait until Torres himself says he has a beef before believing that he has a beef with the club. :)
 
StewartMG said:
Where would Torres go if he decided he'd had enough?
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Not sure, its a funny thing, a few months ago I would have balked at the idea of Torres leaving. Now though I actually wouldnt be overly concerned, providing that he went abroad rather than to another premiership club I actually dont think I would be too distressed about it.
 
sorry, do you think they're making up the quotes? if they're not then to be fair it's quite a specific point that's coming across in the quote. I mean Hodgson is a representative of the club and he is the one reported to have said it so I'd wonder at how he could have been taken out of context in this instance.
 
DanH84 said:
sorry, do you think they're making up the quotes? if they're not then to be fair it's quite a specific point that's coming across in the quote. I mean Hodgson is a representative of the club and he is the one reported to have said it so I'd wonder at how he could have been taken out of context in this instance.
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Not making them up, more presentating them out of context, sentences in between missing, words missing out etc. A common enough method used by the media in a variety of news quoting (be it political news, sports news or entertainment news). Its very common in journalism to enhance the impact of a news item by taking a 10 min conversation and ending up with 60 seconds of reported speech in order to make a stronger impact. Not saying thats whats happened, just saying that it does happen, and as a result of that I take things with a pinch of salt.
 
That's what I'm thinking, and Chelsea probably won't spend silly money on him considering they have Drog the deep sea diver and Anelka.
 
Chelsea could I imagine, like I say though if he went I would prefer he went abroad but I dont see where he would go. Hopefully either way things will get sorted out quickly, if he goes then lets get it out of the way quickly and crack on with rebuilding, if he stays then lets get on with preseason preparations and forget about it. Not massively fussed either way tbh.
 
andy@moFo said:
Nothing less than £40-£45million if he was to leave. Hodgson would have his work cut out to find a replacement.
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Yeah would have to be quite a big purchase I reckon, having said that Torres isnt irreplaceable , in the last 2 years Torres has scored 39 goals, in the same time frame Darren Bent has scored 42 goals. Now I am not saying that Bent is better than Torres, or even as good, but I am saying that there are other options out there if Torres wants to go. As much as I like Torres, he isnt the be all and end all to strikers.
 
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