It’s 10 years since Liverpool signed Fernando Torres for a club record fee. John Gibbons, Gareth Roberts, Craig Hannan and Josh Sexton get together to share their memories of El Nino’s time with The Reds. We talk best goals, his impact on the city and on Liverpool as a club and how we feel now looking back on how he left.
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Great this lads – loved FT – Have to agree with Gibbo about Inter away – loads of reds there bouncing in Milan
one of my favorite goals for Torres which doesn’t ever get mentioned, is against Arsenal in the Champions League, Crouch flicks it on, Torres takes the weight off it with his chest, spins, smashes it top corner. Loved that goal, loved that game.
loved him, absolute man crush, heartbroken when he left. to be fair the liverpoolfc.com site have done a nice piece on him today. lots of bittersweet memories. if his knee held up ive no doubt we’d have won the europa league in 2010 against that fulham. sliding doors moment. shame seeing his decline at chelsea, still won trophies, still beat us in the fa cup final despite being on the bench. worst of both worlds really. plus he did have an impact in that munich final. won the corner that lead to the drogba equaliser. scores in the semi, scores in the europa league final against benfica, scores a belter in the super cup against peps munich. big goals shoulda been for us.
I still hear his name every day in my house. My daughter, 14 at the time loved the man, and called her new cat Torres. The cat is still with us..
I was crushed when he left. I visited anfield for the tour literally the day before he was sold in August. I took a picture with his image on the big glass windows on the front of Anfield. I took a picture in the changing room in front of his shirt. I bought my son a mini kit that you hang in the car with his shirt. So every day for a couple of months, as long as it took me to get rid of it, I had to look at what was. Just glad his head was gone at Chelski as he would have torn the league apart.