highwayman64

My mate just upped this on my facebook wall....
 
Sad thing is its true..
 
 

I don't actually hate him. But I am sick of the whole sorry saga. "Is this where Torres gets his mojo back"?
 
And the answer every time is: NO. Because whatever mojo Torres may once have had, he'd well and truly lost before we ever signed him. An analogy would be a high-maintenance prick-teasing girlfriend. You set her up in surroundings of splendour, take her to the best, most expensive venues. But when it comes down to the real nitty gritty, does she deliver, does she give you what you really want?
 
No she bloody doesn't. After having already invested wasted so much time and effort, she's still there and you can't get rid of her. She still occasionally flatters to deceive, briefly - all too briefly raising your hopes that this time it'll be different, this time she'll be everything you hoped she'd be. Meanwhile with your old reliable long gone, you look back with longing and regret and royal blue tinted nostalgia, yearning for the days when you really did have a good thing going.

Bit hasty on the 'improvement in defending' in my opinion. Ok against Man C mostly, a bit fortunate at times against Fulham, completely folded against West Ham (3 goals in 1 half), not much to defend agains that Danish team and conceded 1 against the 2nd lowest prem scorers (and didnt exactly look solid in 2nd half) - no, need more convicing here.......

It does my head in now that people in the media (and some on here) are falling over themselves to give Benitez credit for reviving Torres. 
 
Torres went through two healthy periods under RDM. Back in March/April highlighted by the QPR hat trick, and Aug/Sept at the start of this season where he looked to (genuinely) have had a new start with Hazard/Mata/Oscar playing havoc behind him. 
 
Obviously we've been fooled before, so I think Benitez's "miraculous" effect on Torres is nothing more than the team playing two soft opponents, and this mercurial bar steward doing what he does every six months or so and going on a small run of goals. 
 
Its just like Benitez getting credit for the teams turnaround in form. What differences are there in our style? Still conceding goals, still getting a ton of chances. I think its far more likely that after 2 wins in our last 10 the team has finally snapped out of its slump, and (seeing how it took him four games to record a win) I doubt Benitez is really deserving of credit for any of it.

Aside from Bogarde I don't think I've ever disliked a Chelsea player as much as I dislike Torres.