Great Article --King Kenny and Fernando

[liverbird]

Discuss:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/liverpool/article3025820.ece

"Fernando, this is a special club with special fans.” Dalglish is now talking directly to the young man. They may as well be alone in the room. “They love people who love to wear their shirt. But they’re not daft, they know when it’s real and when it’s just for show, kissing the badge and all that. They love to identify with people on the pitch. And I think they will identify with you very, very easily.”

[lfcfan858]

I just read this myself. It was fantastic! I suppose you never know for sure how things like that went in real life, but the article came off as warm and Torres genuinely seems like a nice guy. Regardless of what anyone thinks of the article, I hope that it inspires Torres to score more goals!

[phreewilly]

Cheers for the link to the article. Great read.
Here's to Torres never being able to stand on the Kop once he retires. ;)

[el-capitano]

When Torres clocks over 173 goals for Liverpool we can bump this thread ;)

[revelationx]

Good article. These two also feature in the Game podcast at Timesonline. Worth a listen.

[StiltonFC]

I love Kenny Dalglish. Comparing Fernando Torres to Dalglish as football players is silly. The English game 20 years ago, when Dalglish was in his heyday was very different from now. As it says in the article, there are only a small handful of British players on each EPL team. And, finally, Dalglish was 5'8" and Torres is around 6'. Physically they are worlds apart. There are still very capable strikers in the EPL who are small in stature, of course. Keane, Tevez, and Martins, for example. But, by and large, the most successful strikers are larger men, like Drogba, Adebayor, Yakubu, Torres, to name a few.

Torres may become the darling of the Kop the way Dalglish was, and I would love to see him have a long and successful career at Liverpool FC, but the two men are different players from different eras. The article is pretty clear on that point.

I'm not saying that Torres is better or worse. Just different.

The article is trying to sell newsprint. It's meaningless, except as a very nice human interest story.

[liverbird]

I love Kenny Dalglish. Comparing Fernando Torres to Dalglish as football players is silly. The English game 20 years ago, when Dalglish was in his heyday was very different from now. As it says in the article, there are only a small handful of British players on each EPL team. And, finally, Dalglish was 5'8" and Torres is around 6'. Physically they are worlds apart. There are still very capable strikers in the EPL who are small in stature, of course. Keane, Tevez, and Martins, for example. But, by and large, the most successful strikers are larger men, like Drogba, Adebayor, Yakubu, Torres, to name a few.

Torres may become the darling of the Kop the way Dalglish was, and I would love to see him have a long and successful career at Liverpool FC, but the two men are different players from different eras. The article is pretty clear on that point.

I'm not saying that Torres is better or worse. Just different.

The article is trying to sell newsprint. It's meaningless, except as a very nice human interest story.

Really? and before that lesson I thought they were pretty much the same player. Just like I thought Fowler was identical to Rush.:eek:

[kopiteinkc]

I love Kenny Dalglish. Comparing Fernando Torres to Dalglish as football players is silly. The English game 20 years ago, when Dalglish was in his heyday was very different from now. As it says in the article, there are only a small handful of British players on each EPL team. And, finally, Dalglish was 5'8" and Torres is around 6'. Physically they are worlds apart. There are still very capable strikers in the EPL who are small in stature, of course. Keane, Tevez, and Martins, for example. But, by and large, the most successful strikers are larger men, like Drogba, Adebayor, Yakubu, Torres, to name a few.

Torres may become the darling of the Kop the way Dalglish was, and I would love to see him have a long and successful career at Liverpool FC, but the two men are different players from different eras. The article is pretty clear on that point.

I'm not saying that Torres is better or worse. Just different.

The article is trying to sell newsprint. It's meaningless, except as a very nice human interest story.

Of course they are different. But it makes for a good read and better than reading about rafa being fired again, eh?

I will say this though, Torres has the potential to be the best forward we have since Dalglish/Rush/Fowler.

He is the kind of forward that doesn't need a playmaking midfielder as he creates chances himself. Just got to get the ball to him at his feet.

I got a new cat in September and named him Torres. He didn't cost me 25 mill and he has red hair. But other than he is exactly like our Fernando. He is the shit in the box. ;)

[kopiteinkc]

I got a new cat in September and named him Torres. He didn't cost me 25 mill and he has red hair. But other than he is exactly like our Fernando. He is the shit in the box. ;)

The back story is here, click on blue arrow thingy below

It quite funny and worth a read

[liverbird]

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Loved it -- LOFL-- I'd rep you if the BS police would let me

[CCSC_STRIKER20]

Loved it -- LOFL-- I'd rep you if the BS police would let me

Got him!

[usscouse]

The back story is here, click on blue arrow thingy below
************ tale and a good laff. Rep for you my son...:D

[el-capitano]

Fernando Torres has revealed the secret of his increased strike rate since arriving at Liverpool.

He explained: "Strikers only really score goals because of the efforts of their teammates.

"So far I've been scoring pretty much a goal a game and I feel very lucky and happy with that. It's in a large way down to the very good teammates I have.

"At Liverpool we always play with a high tempo and with a good rhythm, so that helps, too."

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N158104071218-1138.htm