Lets do this poll now for some fun and look back on it at the end of the season.

Edited September 13, 201113 yr by Zola

I voted 10-15, but that's only if the team have a good season. I can't see Torres carrying the team.

if he doesn't leave in jan, 10-15

10-15 minimum

10.

So what option am I going to take?

ill guess 7

10-15 dont expect more than that at present

but hoping for at least 20

gone for 10-15 but at this point would be happy for 1

With a bit of luck, I've gone for a tentative 5-10, and next season he'll bag 40, mark my words.......

ive gone 5-10 as i think he will bag 8 goals, random number but i think it will be true come end of season. lets hope he proves us all wrong huh!

14 goals IMO.

I reckon he'll get 15, so went with the safer option of 10-15. If he scores against Man U on the weekend and cements his place, he'll reach 20.

23, a bag of carrots, a hairy chicken and he'll dye his hair purple by February.

I'm off down the bookies to see what odds I can get.

I put 5-10, i just cant see him getting more than that. I think Sturridge will be our top scorer this season and maybe for a few more seasons after that.

15-20, or 20+ i vote, more likely to be 15-20.

-2

Not only will he not score, the press will manage to take off his goal from last season, and another, which he hasn't scored yet.

0-5.

15 assists though.

At work I tried to read this thread, and got thrown out 3 times. Surely that's a bad omen! Now I will have to vote 0-5.

Going with 10-15. Im sure he is going to have atleast one run of form when he cant stop scoring!

10.

So what option am I going to take?

go with this too....but put it in 5--10...tho like all the rest hoping for more............really thought his luck was changing pre-season...maybe it still will, we're only a few games in...............last night showed he still has it, just needs that bit of luck to start him off....................hopefully...its coming!!

Anything less than double figures will be embarrassing, which means he will have to improve his current ratio by about 642%.

I'm going for 5 more than Rooney has notched up after 4 games ..

13.

The same number Malouda got last season.

Absolutely. Rooney has 8 goals in 4 games so far this season. That means he is going to score 76 league goals this season.

Anything less than 50 goals from Torres represents an unbelievable, spectacular, astronomical failure in my eyes. This bust guy cant even keep pace with a player that cost 30 million pounds?And he cost 50 million. Remember that, guys? Never, ever forget that fact. I myself am constantly reminded of it because the usual cadre of Scouse assholes in the press never shut the hell up about it.

And whenever that little spoiled, backstabbing, mercenary, ladyboy bar steward whistles one past the post, make sure you, your kids, your dad, your nan, and anyone else around you gives him the hell he deserves.

He cost HOW much? Are you sure? Ive never seen that figure mentioned before....

Edited September 15, 201113 yr by dkw

I know. Its shocking. And what's worse is I've heard he has only bagged one goal.

One goal! ONE. Even Andy Carroll has two. This season he hasnt even scored one this season after FOUR games. Let me do some quick calculations:

Well, I have done the math. Obviously. And four games with zero goals projects to..............zero goals over all 38 games. This is especially shocking and disappointing because Wayne Rooney is going to bag 76 this season. And since things go just as we predict them I suggest you take those numbers down to Ladbrooke's right now and make yourself a packet.

Edited September 15, 201113 yr by TheWestwayWonder

Lets do this poll now for some fun and look back on it at the end of the season.

It seems most people guessed right in the poll, between 10-15 goals.

Torres got 11 I think, although no-one got the precise figure spot on.

Had a little purple patch before getting sent off against Swansea, then AVB preferred Drogba, then Torres came back and was woeful, however he found his form towards the end of the season.

What of next season? No Drogba to compete with, Hazard, Hulk and Mata beside him, will he finally come good, I mean really good?

Personally, I think Sturridge will grab his chance when it comes, and he'll show us why he's been desperate to play up front. He has goals, confidence, arrogance, pace, skill, finishing. Torres will start as our number one striker, but if he's not producing the goods, or he gets injured, he may not get it all his own way. No-one should be in the team on reputation alone, you have to compete for your spot by producing, and I hope Torres is up for the fight, rather than thinking it's his by right.

The best way to own a spot is to produce. It applies to every other member of the squad, it should apply to Torres, and if he's not producing, I hope Sturridge gets his chance, he has been at Chelsea 3 years, waiting to play up front, and he deserves a fair crack.

The ball is in Torres' court to keep him out.