2007â08 season
Debut Season
On 4 May 2008, Torres scored a 57th-minute winner against Manchester City, which equalled the consecutive Anfield league goal record of eight games set by Roger Hunt.[32][40] After scoring his 24th league goal in the final game of the season, a 2â0 win against Tottenham Hotspur, he set a new record for the most prolific foreign goal scorer in a debut season in England, eclipsing Ruud van Nistelrooy's 23 goals.[32][41] He ended the season in joint second place with Emmanuel Adebayor in the race for the Premier League golden boot.[42]
Torres was subject to media speculation that Chelsea were willing to pay ÂŁ50 million to sign him but Torres responded by saying it would be "many years" before he left Liverpool.[43][44] Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks also negated the idea of a transfer, saying he would not allow Torres to leave the club at any price.[45]
2010â11 season
Following Roy Hodgson's appointment as Liverpool manager he stated that Torres would not be sold by the club, saying "He is not for sale and we don't welcome any offers for him. We want to keep him."[83]
Hodgson dismissed reports Torres was set to leave Liverpool by saying "He has told us that he is looking forward to Monday, to getting back to work and looking forward to playing for Liverpool next season. That is what I know so other reports, I would suggest, are erroneous."[84] Torres stated his commitment to Liverpool on 3 August, saying "My commitment and loyalty to the club and to the fans is the same as it was on my first day when I signed."[85]
He was being tapped away at by the Chavs from the season he arrived .
On 27 July 2010, after returning from a break after the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Mascherano informed new Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson that he wanted to leave the club.[39] During that break, Hodgson had failed with several attempts to contact Mascherano, able only to leave messages for him saying that he was looking forward to meeting him back on Merseyside as his calls went unreturned.[40]
Mascherano was held in high esteem by the Liverpool fans, who gave him his own song, (to the tune of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army").[41] After winning the 2011 Champions League Final with Barcelona, Mascherano, speaking directly after the match, said, "I want to say, I know that Liverpool supporters, after my exit, I know they were a little bit sad with meâthis is for them as well."[42][43]
Liverpool announced on 27 August that they had agreed a transfer fee ÂŁ17.25m with Barcelona for the player and had given permission to him to speak with the Spanish club.[44]
Here was someone else who wanted to go to a big club .
Six months before Torres.
The difference from what I can see was it was OK to leave the country but to play for the Chavs was different.
Hodgson went on January 8th 2011.
Torres went January 31st 2011.
Has nobody ever put into the mix that trying to play for the man for half of a season who was recently quoted as saying that
" I dont know what I am doing here " (!) was another reason why Torres ended up uninspired by it all.
If we could see the owl was an arsehole ... surely a professional footballer could suss that out every day on the training ground.
Including playing next to the Koncheskys of the world.
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