Im kinda torn on the whole Torres issue.
On the one hand Torres is injury prone, on the other he scores at least 20 goals a season even when injured so if Chel$ea are ready to pay the reported 35-60M for him it be sick.
But honestly who can you bring in to replace him?
Suárez looks like a done deal and im thrilled about it but I was really hoping the would be partners rather then a replacement, especially since while Suárez clearly has skills he would be new to the premier league and no guarantees that he would pick up the goal scoring slack left by Torres right of the bat.
And if he doesnt Liverpool would really be in trouble for goals.
Sure Gerrard will slot in with his usual 15 and Kuyt with his 10-15 but who else?
Meireles? Looked good lately but cant expect a CM to score every week and Jovanovic and Ngog are not good enough and not ready, respecivly.
Maybe Dalglish is gonna count on Pacheco and Silva?
If always thought of Torres as a top class bloke but in 2 weeks he has gone from saying Im not leaving to handing in a transfer request when there are 2days left of the window.
And the cited reasons seems to be his unhappiness with the Physio team and how the dealt with his injurys(Unfit for WC,missing Atletico games), but that Physio team got completly replaced this summer(and Torres has been mostly fit since then, coincidence?).
Just seems strange to say thats the reason since there are plenty of legitimate reasons available.
-Team under performing.
-Needs to play in CL
-Wants trophy's
-Needs to move to a "bigger"(but really what is bigger then Liverpool 🙂) club to keep his national team spot.
ect ect ect.
And then to Chelsea it kinda seems like a scare tactic by them aimed at Atletico, they tried buying Torres before and got a flat no so they figured hey lets bid on Torres and leak the story, we no its gonna get rejected bu it will put more pressure on Atletico to accept our Aguero bid.
As much as I hate it I hope its a "Rooney/Tevez" play, trying to bully the management into giving him on of those fat 300K a week paychecks.