debosky: Torres just made a phool out of DK at this tournament - golden boot and scoring in two consecutive finals.

Go-miss will never achieve that in his lifetime.

maybe now the charlatans on this thread would take me serious when i say
torres is no dud. chelsea made him flop with their lethargic build-up play
and the midfielders not releasing torres with quick passing....

xavi was finding him quickly to put torres one v one with the goalkeeper...
torres has now scored in the final of euro 2008 and 2012, won the highest
golden boot of the tournament with fewer minutes than his counterparts.

with all due respect, ibime + dayokanu + bluediva + ritchboy are the biggest
retards this forum has ever produced.

1025:

@coogar,
it take one retard to find out another. you are the retard of the millenium. what happened to ur manure ronney? na chelsea do am? na manure players release torres the day he destroyed that team that brings high fever to manure.am talking about barca. chelsea is not about torres but about winning mentality. whatsoever we did,whosoever we played or dropped. whatsoever pattern that gave us the fa and ucl trophies are the best of chelsea. go home and sort ur trophiless season.if you don't watch it, manure are going the ways of arsenal.

1025:

@coogar,
it take one retard to find out another. you are the retard of the millenium. what happened to ur manure ronney? na chelsea do am? na manure players release torres the day he destroyed that team that brings high fever to manure.am talking about barca. chelsea is not about torres but about winning mentality. whatsoever we did,whosoever we played or dropped. whatsoever pattern that gave us the fa and ucl trophies are the best of chelsea. go home and sort ur trophiless season.if you don't watch it, manure are going the ways of arsenal.

coogar:

maybe now the charlatans on this thread would take me serious when i say
torres is no dud. chelsea made him flop with their lethargic build-up play
and the midfielders not releasing torres with quick passing....

xavi was finding him quickly to put torres one v one with the goalkeeper...
torres has now scored in the final of euro 2008 and 2012, won the highest
golden boot of the tournament with fewer minutes than his counterparts.

fa cup winner
champions league winner
european championship winner
european championship golden boot winner

el nino to win the ballon d'or
with all due respect, ibime + dayokanu + bluediva + ritchboy are the biggest
retards this forum has ever produced.

coogar:

maybe now the charlatans on this thread would take me serious when i say
torres is no dud. chelsea made him flop with their lethargic build-up play
and the midfielders not releasing torres with quick passing....

xavi was finding him quickly to put torres one v one with the goalkeeper...
torres has now scored in the final of euro 2008 and 2012, won the highest
golden boot of the tournament with fewer minutes than his counterparts.

fa cup winner
champions league winner
european championship winner
european championship golden boot winner

el nino to win the ballon d'or
with all due respect, ibime + dayokanu + bluediva + ritchboy are the biggest
retards this forum has ever produced.

Ibime:

Tores would never succeed with Chelsea. Last night showed why.

So it is after a bedraggled, dispirited and numerically disadvantaged Italy opened up gaping holes that you are coming to celebrate?

Chelsea fans dont need a man who shows up when the going is easy, we need a ninja who is a difference maker when the going is tough and space on the pitch is at a premium.

Who should we trust - (a.) the stat thats says Torres won golden boot with a paltry 3 goals or (b.) the stat that says his manager had no trust in him whatsoever throughout the tournament, trusting him only with a starting berth against the decrepit Irish and taking him off shortly after half-time against Croatia.

Torres can never flourish when there is no space cos he lacks the physicality or football sense to make a difference. Last night even showed why.

Despite scoring, Torres was giving the ball away like no man's business with some stupid attempted dribbles where defenders just barged him off the ball.

It just reminded me of the numerous times he gives the ball away cheaply for Chelsea. The dude is careless in possession. Pass simple ball, bros want dribble, and only 1 out of 3 of his dribbles come off.

dayokanu: A striker that can not be trusted by his manager in top games should now be trusted by Chelsea for the season?

The vital CL games he did not start

In Euro cup top games Vs Italy, Portugal, France he was benched and he managed to score vs Ireland the worst team of the tournament and an Italian team who was demoralised and a man down?

Winning the top scorer like Oleg Salenko did scoring bucketful vs a decrepit Cameroun is what we are celebrating here?

Nigga Pleaseeeee

dayokanu: In the important games the dud was benched until when victory was assured before they brought him in.

Scoring against a demoralised Italy down to 10men is what the dud could achieve? where was he in the key games vs Italy, France and Portugal

@Chidi, calm down. Your outrage is drawing negative comments to our highly exulted board.
Biko, take it easy the orangeman.

1025:

@andrew,
u lack information and i think u are suffering from individual/personal hype like that manure/england attack line.
if that trash(coogar) is saying rooney played only two games, can i ask u and him, how many games did rooney play at sa2010? how many games in all did torres play in euro. good players are good players.

mata that scored against italy, how many matches did he play? how long does it take to score a goal?
gutter reasoning is just the problems of both of u. are u saying that if howard webb was to be the ref in the england games, rooney would not have scored 10 goals?
both of u are using monkey brains and as such lack human reasoning abilities.

coogar:

mata & llorente must be duds then....
what a stupid way of analysing footie!
if mata was from any of the other countries in the
tournament, he would be a guaranteed starter!

dayokanu:
Who was benching Mata? Xavi and Iniesta.

Who was benching Fernandud? Either fabregas or Negredo i laff in Gorimapa

debosky: @ Coogar
Same advice as I've given others. . . .don't feed the troll.

coogar:

if he's good enough, he should start!
he just won the champions league, mata!



torres played more minutes than negredo!
del bosque doesn't even care about strikers---all he wanted
was to control the ball and control the game...all the players
in the starting 11 are pure goalscorers...

debosky: ^^ Nando lost his shirt because he isn't the optimal player for the current formation in the same way Messi is as a false 9 for Barcelona, or Villa was before his injury.

It has little or nothing to do with Nando's ability as a striker but more to do with his compatibility with Spain's style of play.

Even without being optimally suited, he scored 3 goals - not fantastic, but a decent return all the same.

nateevs: Archived!

debosky: ^^ Nando lost his shirt because he isn't the optimal player for the current formation in the same way Messi is as a false 9 for Barcelona, or Villa was before his injury.

It has little or nothing to do with Nando's ability as a striker but more to do with his compatibility with Spain's style of play.

Even without being optimally suited, he scored 3 goals - not fantastic, but a decent return all the same.

Putting two goals past Ireland and scoring his third against a well-beaten 10 men before clinching the Golden Boot thanks to not getting picked - the continent's conqueror rises

Honey, I’m home!

Welcome back, Fernando Torres. We missed you. It doesn’t matter that the slow race for the Euro 2012 Golden Boot practically went down to a six-way rock-paper-scissors tiebreaker as a continent’s strikeforce tripped over itself in trying not to win it. You’re the king of Europe once again.

Sorry. Rock-paper-scissors is a deeply unfair comparison. Torres clinched the prestigious prize not through random guesswork.

He set it up by scoring twice against Ireland – joining the likes of Jason Koumas in the pantheon of football luminaries – and once late on against a depleted, demoralised Italy who had already been staring dumbfounded with their tongues lolling out of their mouths for 30 minutes, and he clinched it by virtue of his coach being unwilling to play him very much. There could be no more fitting way to crown the continent’s greatest centre forward.

For that, clearly, is what the Spaniard is. His glory is reclaimed after a most exceptional year. Champions League, FA Cup and Euro 2012 triumph – he is a sensation by implication.

For Torres’ true power, we must now appreciate, is in what he doesn’t do as much as what he does. He doesn’t terrorise defences anymore; he doesn’t need to. He doesn’t start the big games anymore; he doesn’t need to. He doesn’t inspire reverent awe with the mere mention of his name anymore; he doesn’t need to.

Now he asks defenders politely if they would mind letting him through. Mostly they say no; just frequently enough, they say yes. Now he occupies 20-minute cameo slots at the end of games; enough, appropriately, for an episode of a sitcom and no more. Now his name lulls opponents into a false sense of security.

It. Is. Enough. Torres does all of this and no more; it brings big, shiny trophies and personal accolades. God help us all if he turned up the volume.

We know that there is more to come; quite aside from his scintillating years at Liverpool, he treats us just occasionally enough to a glimpse of the exceptional, just to prove that it is still there. Witness, if you will, the 90th-minute 50-yard solo run to eliminate Barcelona from the Champions League in Camp Nou. A truly special moment.

The Chelsea man has mastered the art of self-control. By drip-feeding us brilliance in the perfect ratio, he can load up his swag bag with trophies while still inspiring complacency in opposing back lines.

Indeed, one can extrapolate that, if he were to utilise all his potential, Torres would be so good that he would win the World Cup every year. The World Cup doesn’t happen every year, but he would win it anyway. Football wouldn’t be ready for that. Football would break. Torres isn’t flattering to deceive, he’s single-handedly preventing the sport we love from caving in on itself under the sheer dividing-by-zero weight of his awesomeness.

Who else could possibly challenge him for the title of best striker in Europe? On the evidence of this tournament, nobody. Not Robin van Persie, who proved as threatening as a duck with a slingshot. Not Mario Gomez, who forgot how to play as soon as things got serious. Not Aleksandr Kerzhakov, who took his Torres tribute act far too far.

Alright, maybe Nicklas Bendtner. But ask again in two years about that one.

But this is Torres’ time. Suddenly £50 million (€62m) looks a bargain for the world’s most effective lucky charm. Attention chairmen: Here is a legacy for hire. No price would be too big. This is a forward clearly bound by destiny to win it all no matter what.

His success defies logic. Those who backed him this summer did so out of hope or contrariness rather than expectation. But you could never bet against him again now. Fernando Torres is better than logic. Fernando Torres is better than everyone.

dayokanu:

If Villa was fit he would have played, So why not Torres? Simply put because he sucks and he cant function for the team. the coach tried him a couple of games which he didnt impress the coach

next game the coach had to try Negredo who also didnt impress.

The coach would rather go without a striker than field a luxury one like fernandud who the stars have to align for before he can perform.

If in a World cup you were benched and excuse was that Oh he had Villa ahead, What of Euros without Villa?

Simple Torres is way below the Spanish NT standards maybe for a country like luxemburg he might start and even be captain but his skillset are too low for the best NT of all time

You Dudes are burning Up lot of Chagrins for El Nino than i thought - that am begining to wonder the kinda facial expressions u'll put on when he's playing for both Chelsea and España.

Maybe u've allowed Sentiments to take hold of ur entire self same wiv Ibime that nothing fruitful would u guyz link to Torres - Jeez! This aint a nature of a Football pundit, u dudes are doin a Gary Neville in here!

The Chap have had his good dayz and it shouldn't seem strange if he's hitting the rocks now as we had in the cases of Shevchenco, Kaka, Adriano, Crespo, Beckham etc, Nøt Insinuating that he's reached his peak but is jxt hitting the Rockz now and hopefully would get over it if helped Psychologically, Physically and maybe Spiritually!

I'l sometimes want to go wiv Cooger on the Notion that our team are at times big suspects to Torres not scoring [Not Including the Utd Open goal blast], the Set Ups, strategies and other factors jxt contribute - Though he wasn't starting at the Euros, he did put up an average match day performance when given the nod [3 Goals and an Assist in jxt 2 starts].

Nateevs help me Øut on this

El Guapo: 

Couldn't stop laffing at the Italian's Backfour, Did u guys notice De Rossi was playing Outta position? He should have been Protecting the backfour but dude almost was Seen at the Left midfield [Who wantz to be Disgraced!]

VIVA LA EL ROJA!

Goodness Gracious!!!... He was playing on the left side of the midfield because that is his position in Italy's Midfield diamond formation.

1025: i dey like players and teams wey no sabi play like torres and chelsea but they sabi win trophies.