At the risk of sounding like a bonafide plastic, I have to admit that this sorry saga is a constant drain on my enthusiasm for the club. Even though I know that the club is ultimately bigger than Torres or anyone else, like many of the posters here I don't feel we can truly move forward until this saga ends. 

 

I want Torres to succeed at Chelsea, but I never felt that he really would. Too many injuries, too little form, too little self-confidence.

 

Unfortunately, my instincts tell me that Roman is too pig-headed to admit his errors, never mind learn from them. It's also obvious that he's nepotistic - Torres is only part of the reason why CFC has slowly turned into the laughing stock it currently is (although it hurts to admit it). Roman needs to look closer to home to find the other reasons (like the board room).  

 

As I have said in the past, if he conducted his business affairs like he conducts his football affairs, he'd be a vagrant.

Edited December 16, 201213 yr by DaRick

I would agree with many others that fsw was appointed with a view to improving 'Nando Dorris.

 

But I think the main reason el numpty was appointed, was because he's 'won' the World club cup before,under simular circumstances.

 

After the Supercup performance, the board didn't trust Robbie with this competition I feel.

 

And a win here would be great for marketing the 'brand' worldwide.

 

From fsw's rather flat comments after the game,I guess he know's the result has screwed up his chances of a permanent appointment somewhat.

 

Still, every cloud has a silver linning & all that.

Got to the point where I actually hate him, sick and f**king tired of the Torres circus that surrounding the club. Cant even be arsed moaning bout rafa any more.

It's not even about the price tag, any half decent striker would have buried that chance today. most top quality strikers would had scored 1 and made or scored another out of the many times he was played in over the top.

Biggest flop in football history ever.

I think everyone is just bored of him now, bored of the whole saga.

 

Spot on. Torres has consumed our entire club with the neverending will he/won't he score debate, building a team around him, shipping out almost every other senior striker to accommodate him, his piss poor return that has contributed to three managers getting the sack. Worst of all in today's match was not the miss but the moment when he just stood there statuesque near the corner flag as the Brazilian defender calmly robbed him of the ball.

 

It's been an embarrassment and a millstone around our necks since his very first match. I just want the whole sorry episode to be over now and I don't think we can move on as a club until he does.

I won't descend to the level of outright slander against Torres again but suffice to say the writing is on the wall in vivid paint: He's a goner in January.

 

The shadow of Radamel Falcao looms...

Got to the point where I actually hate him, sick and f**king tired of the Torres circus that surrounding the club. Cant even be arsed moaning bout rafa any more.

It's not even about the price tag, any half decent striker would have buried that chance today. most top quality strikers would had scored 1 and made or scored another out of the many times he was played in over the top.

Biggest flop in football history ever.

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.

I don't think Torres will be going in January, i really don't. Roman will bring a new striker in and see if he can work upfront with Torres. But i think he will be gone in the summer, mainly cos Torres can't work well with a strike partner and nor does he want to. He wants to be the main man. He made that clear last May.

I am disappointed he didn't score today (the disallowed effort aside) as i am sure he is. Watching today's game though, despite the effort he clearly put in he looked to me like the frustrated Torres who hates the world again.

 Well, I very much doubt we sacked Robbie without a contingency plan, do you? 

 

     In a word, yes.

 

I think if anyone had thought about sacking Robbie for more than five minutes, they wouldve realized it was a horrible idea.

 

I think the f**king clowns at our club thought one result was bad enough to justify immediate termination and then they scrambled.

 

If they were lining up Benitez in the days before that Juve game (cant really believe they got him within 15 hrs after as the timeline went) then it shows an incredible lack of ambition and desire for mediocrity and ineptitude. Which is exactly what they have now, so well in Roman, Buckie, Ronnie.

I don't think Torres will be going in January, i really don't. Roman will bring a new striker in and see if he can work upfront with Torres. But i think he will be gone in the summer, mainly cos Torres can't work well with a strike partner and nor does he want to. He wants to be the main man. He made that clear last May.

I am disappointed he didn't score today (the disallowed effort aside) as i am sure he is. Watching today's game though, despite the effort he clearly put in he looked to me like the frustrated Torres who hates the world again.

 

 

Unfortunately, that's a very real possibilty I think. Falcao or A.N.Other will come in and be expected to play alongside Torres.

 

Hazard, Oscar or someone else will be moved aside to make room.

Thank God I didn't see that late miss live. If I did, I would have no laptop to post this on...

Dare i say Kalou is better than Torres is?

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Easily. Not even a contest.

Ah those beautiful blue tinted glasses! Kalou was woeful.

As for Torres, his time with us is coming to an end.

Roman sacked a CL winning manager HE did not want for a manager WE do not want to try and turn Torres in to an actual useful forward. Has that worked? Not yet and we may end the season with no trophies and no CL next season because of it.

 

Given the lengths he has gone too if Torres STILL fails will Roman finally realize he did indeed by another super pricey past it striker and needs to go back to the drawing board again?

It surprises me the way many in the media have said that RB would get the best out of nando again. He certainly progressed him at anfield and made him one of the top forwards in Europe. But I always felt he didn't maximise what was available, and far too often Torres was playing as not only the lone striker, but also isolated as we more often than not sat too deep.

Think it was RB's last season and we were away at Birmingham when he took Torres off. Gerrard asks him if he's injured and when torres shakes his head, Gerrard has a WTF expression on his face. Think towards the end of RB days at anfield it was a very different situation with Torres than it was in his first couple of years. Although he's undoubtedly got better quality players around him now, can't see RB getting torres back to anything like he was at ours.

 

frankie !

 

frankie !

Ashley cole is saying 'even mikel would have scored that'

Ah those beautiful blue tinted glasses! Kalou was woeful.

As for Torres, his time with us is coming to an end.

 

 

One thing about Kalou he was a Chelsea player he did his best for Chelsea which is more than I can say about Torres and he only cost about 7 or 8 million.Torres go home/   

Ashley cole is saying 'even mikel would have scored that'

 

 

 

frankie !

Cole is just saying Nando your sh*t ok!

Funny how all the people calling for us to support Torres have disappeared under their rocks again

Funny how all the people calling for us to support Torres have disappeared under their rocks again

 

Well, Liverpool lost to Villa at the weekend, and that's probably kept a few of them away.

We have Leeds next...no doubt they will be back in force when he puts one past them

We have Leeds next...no doubt they will be back in force when he puts one past them

they'll use the phase 'Torres is back' over and over again if he puts one past Leeds

 

frankie !

 

Nando "Frank is my Lip doing it again?" Frank " I bloody told you it would stick like that if the wind changed, now grow up ffs" Ash" to be fair he did tell you".

Edited December 18, 201213 yr by Chippy

I know that's just a snapshot without context, but a picture is worth a thousand words, etc.  They do look genuinely frustrated with Torres in the picture, even Marin in the background is almost looking on as if to say "Oh fu**!"

 

 

and then Ivan is so mad even his hair is trying to get away from him