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

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Andybtsn said:
Do it, but he's already proven himself in the Prem.
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The same Santa Cruz who 'some' people said was a complete waste of money when city went in for him?

He just just doesnt score enough goals.

His career stats are less than 1 goal in 3 games, he has had one season where he scored a decent amount of goals, the rest of his career has been a long list of almost completely barren seasons at the top level.

In fact in his entire career, he has only once scored double figures in top flight football.
He is a waste of time.
 
dannyjo22 said:
No offense to Liverpool fans but Torres lack of desire is surprising. Don't get me wrong he's absolute quality but how long does he want to keep winning nothing when he can play for any of the best 6-8 clubs in the world.

I can't see it being for longer than 12 months when he's back hopefully to full fitness.
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Its nothing new to him, he has never won anything in his club career, so liverpool not winning anything and being prepared to pay him £100,000+ a week to sit on the bench for half a season every time he breaks a nail for the next 4 years probably suits him down to the ground.;)

To be fair to him, where is he going to go where he will win anything, or get game time or get paid as much as he does at liverpool?

He has 4 choices really-

Madrid, who he wont play for.
United, Who dont have any money and he wouldnt play for.
Barcelona, where he wouldnt get a game ahead of Villa or Messi or Ibrahimovic, and also, Barcelona have no money.
Or Chelsea, who have not moved on him.

City you can discount, because he might as well sit at liverpool this season as they have as much chance of doing anything as city do.
 
You could also say that winning the Euro's AND the World cup may have satisfied him for the next few years and he is only 26. One more season at liverpool and if they miss out on CL and winning anything then he'll porobably ask to be sold at the end of next season and teams will still be queueing up.
 
Torres does seem to be drifting through his club career. Sure it's nice to win International stuff, but you feel he's stagnating at a club where he's becoming less and less likely to be successful :(
 
Tom84 said:
Chelsea last season in all comps scored 56 goals from midfield 8 of which were scored by J.Cole and Ballack
Man Utd last season in all comps scored 47 goals from midfield

Probably wont dispel the myth that their midfield is all conquering and ours is the weakest in the league but hey ho
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Not really sure what you're driving at here; two of Chelsea's midfielders scored a seventh of their midfield goals, i.e. not contributing a massive amount on the goals front - and they've been let go. In comes Benayoun who scored as many goals as them put together in a weaker team from less than half the number of appearances. Chelsea's midfield was also affected far more by the ACoN given that both Essien and Mikel were missing for literally the entire tournament.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
Him and RvP are very similar. They're just injured too often to really hit any sort of reasonable club form over a season.
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He played 46 games and scored 33 goals in 07/08. I think he's been a victim of Benitez/Liverpool's lack of decent partners/backup for the last couple of years which has meant he's been rushed back after each injury.


From a desire point of view, for me, he comes across as being loyal, which is quite refreshing. It's not like we were far off winning the league in 08/09 and tend to be a force in europe most of the time...
 
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Burned_Alive said:
He played 46 games and scored 33 goals in 07/08. I think he's been a victim of Benitez/Liverpool's lack of decent partners/backup for the last couple of years which has meant he's been rushed back after each injury.


From a desire point of view, for me, he comes across as being loyal, which is quite refreshing. It's not like we were far off winning the league in 08/09.
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Yep, and I imagine not many teams will buy him yet either with injuries etc. He was very loyal to At. Madrid wasn't he?

Good to see Liverpool have sorted their left back positions with basically spending nothing, Aurelio/Insua is a pretty attacking mentality, but I do like Aurelio when fit.
 
You have to feel sorry for footballers, we bleat and whine that footballers don't show loyalty, don't play for clubs they want to be at and instead go for the glory or money, yet when a player does stay at a club where he is happy we complain that they lack ambition. They just can't win sometimes.

Now I'm not pretending to know why Torres is staying but has anyone, anyone at all considered that maybe he likes it where he is ? That he is happy with the city he is in , happy with his friends and teammates?

Now I am not a professional footballer, but in my working life I have turned down the opportunity of moving job to a higher paid, higher profile job with another company purely because I am happy where I am , doing what I am doing. It's fun and enjoyable, which is something I put way above wages and promotion
 
Tombstone said:
Now I am not a professional footballer, but in my working life I have turned down the opportunity of moving job to a higher paid, higher profile job with another company purely because I am happy where I am , doing what I am doing. It's fun and enjoyable, which is something I put way above wages and promotion
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Sadly for a lot of people, money is more important than anything. :(
 
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