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Torres on Liverpool’s history, Chelsea’s future and Roy Hodgson

How Torres fares against his former employers in the Chelsea v Liverpool clash at Stamford Bridge today is a small part of a new chapter for both Premier League clubs. Liverpool, with Suarez and Carroll in their ranks and Kenny Dalglish leading them, claim to have ‘moved on from Torres’. Chelsea, with Torres and Luiz…

The Best and Worst Of Fernando Torres

Fernando Torres has posted his worst stats this season since he joined the Premier League nearly four years ago. However, in the history of the Premier League, no player has scored more frequently than Torres and he has proven Champions League knockout stage pedigree. If his poor recent form is down to him being low on…

Will Torres score for Chelsea against Liverpool on Sunday?

“This isn’t happening…this isn’t happening…this isn’t happening.” – Rochelle, Left 4 Dead 2 Last weekend we had a bit of a laugh at the Soccerlens headquarters when players signed up in our Football Manager 2011 game ended up playing against their former clubs in their first starts. But with Chelsea set to field record transfer…

Fernando Torres: The New Shevchenko?

How manager Carlo Ancelotti will re-configure his system to incorporate Torres remains to be seen, though it’s worth nothing that there will be an ominous spectre hovering over his head when it comes to bedding in his new superstar – an ominous spectre that has perhaps come to characterise Abramovich’s oil-soaked tenure in West London, the £30 million signing of Andriy Shevchenko.

Transfer Deadline Round-Up: Torres And Carroll Smash Records

For the first time in a long time, the transfer deadline day actually lived up to it’s monstrous, gossip-driven hype.

Over the course of 24 hours of prime pantomime, we witnessed both the fourth and the eighth most expensive transfers of all time take place, with Chelsea bagging themselves a new number nine and Liverpool taking 35 million steps to fill the void left thereafter.

Chelsea Complete British Transfer Record Move For Fernando Torres

Fernando Torres has finally put pen to paper at Chelsea Football Club for a British transfer record fee of £50million. Torres who arrives from Liverpool, has put pen to paper on a lucrative five and half year contract and will be available for Sunday’s game, amazingly, against his former club. The Spanish World Cup winner…

Fernando Torres Opts to Destroy Unique Bond With Liverpool Fans As Chelsea Move Edges Nearer

Where has the nostalgic feeling gone for a player to be proud of adorning the colours of a club that has gifted so much to the history of the game? Just ask Fernando Torres as he looks set to move for a British record transfer fee from Liverpool to champions Chelsea. Torres is in envious…

The Round-Up: Torres Exit Request Rejected, Man Utd To Go Dutch

Liverpool have confirmed that striker Fernando Torres made an official transfer request yesterday afternoon amidst interest from Chelsea, and that the club have also turned it down – telling the Spaniard that they expect him to honour his long-term contract at Anfield.

The Round-Up: Liverpool Snub Torres Bid, Inter After Bale…Again

Liverpool have rejected a £35 million bid from Chelsea for striker Fernando Torres, according to a report in the Times.

The newspaper are claiming that the club contacted them immediately after rebuffing the offer, though no official word has been released by the Anfield PR department yet.

Man Utd Cut Short King Kenny’s Second Honeymoon

As it turns out, Liverpool’s returning regent, ‘King’ Kenny Dalglish, enjoyed approximately 30 seconds of unwavering clamour and adulation on his return to the dugout – which surely amounts to one of the shortest-lived managerial hooneymoon periods since OPTA records began -  thanks chiefly to Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov‘s early (and supremely consumate) rendition…