Comments on: Can Rafa afford to keep dropping Torres?

By: mike in sz

mike in sz — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:55:36 +0000

Never mind about Liverpool, how can we pick our fantasy teams when Rafa only announces the team a couple of hours before the kickoff?

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[…] was hoping to shut the mouth of all the critics for not putting Torres on the field as frequent as the fans wanted. It was not Torres that was on the spotlight when Israeli midfielder […]

By: Kevin Fylan

Kevin Fylan — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:48:43 +0000

Robbie’s coming back to Anfield! Only for an hour and a half, though, as Liverpool are at home to Cardiff City in the next round of the Carling Cup.
http://www.carlingcup.premiumtv.co.uk/pa ge/News/0,,11995~1123244,00.html

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:53:08 +0000

The league is the priority so he should be played in every game when he is fit and rested for the cup competitions. The European Cup is important but its leagues stages are so forgiving that Liverpool can afford to lose a couple of games and still go through. dropping Torres so he could play against Porto indicates that Rafa, sadly, has his priorities wrong.

The only reservation I have concerns his age. You need to look at Robbie Fowler and Micheal Owen who’s careers both faltered because of injury when the players were in their mid twenties. We’ll never know but perhaps this was because they were over played in their early years.

Good to see Robbie notching a few goals in the past week

By: goonerbo

goonerbo — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:49:37 +0000

“If you say to me that Dirk Kuyt is a worse striker or Peter Crouch is a worse striker or Andriy Voronin is a worse striker then I would play Torres every game,” Benitez said. ”But because we have very good strikers, I like to choose the strikers for every game and if it is necessary to change I will change.”

not my business or interest… but ya… Torres is definitely better than the rest of the strikers at Liverpool. A simple test, ask the rival fans including me, which striker they would prefer to see on the bench when playing against their team. I am sure most would say Torres.

By: Rafa

Rafa — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:29:39 +0000

Do you mean me? I’m not dropping him. Seriously, though, he has to start every game. I have the feeling we’ve binned four points in the last two games. Just chucked em away.