Liverpool Received Summer Offers for £70m Torres: Manchester City?
by YNWA on September 28th, 2009 32 commentsPremier League clubs made approaches for top notch Spanish striker.
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Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez rates Fernando Torres at £70 million.
After his hat-trick against Hull City, Benitez said of the £21 million signing: “That was an awful lot of money for us, but I never had the slightest doubt he would be worth every penny.
“I made it clear at the time that I thought it was cheap, and that has been born out. Hopefully, we will be saying that for years to come, because I can see him getting even better.
“We drew up a list of 10 strikers at the time and went through their strengths and weaknesses. In each category, Torres came top.
“You just wonder how much he is worth now. It is difficult to put a figure on it, but it must be at least £70million. During the summer, there were some agents acting for English clubs who contacted us to ask what the price would be. They were talking about big, big figures, but we left them in no doubt he was not for sale. Not at any price.
“People say every player has a price, but Fernando hasn’t. Money cannot buy him. I think he will be happy with that, too, because he is very settled here. There is more to come from him because, for all his outstanding ability, he still has a real eagerness to learn.” (Various)
Good to see Rafa has no desire to even consider talk of a transfer, but perhaps he would have been better placed saying that he rates the Spanish striker at £170m given that in this day and age a club could well consider a £70m pricetag for El Nino as a bit of a bargain!
It seems more than likely that one of the English club Rafa is referring to must have been Man City, and clearly it would have been an approach that got very short shrift from a manager who knows just how valuable Fernando Torres is to Liverpool Football Club. And to think that some suggested that we paid over the odds for him when we bought him!
YNWA
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anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Go and piss up another tree city dogs fernando is not for sale no way no how no price.
Anyway you have belamy ha ha ha ha
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
See how Torres fairs if Liverpool fail to qualify for Europe next year…it’s not the front line as a red I am worried about more over a shaky looking back four
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
theres only drogba to touch torres and he is 30, villa can’t jump as well and he is 28 rooney is the only player to come near to nando a bid ov Emmanuel Adebayor+tevez + 70m is the fee i would take
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
You scousers make me laugh. It doesn’t say that Man City were the definate team who were trying to bid for Torres. Before you all start shouting your mouths of you wanna read the article again. Fact is who’s to say it wasn’t Chelsea or Man U??? They both have the funds to pay top dollar for a player of Torres quality.
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
You lot are so jealous of Man City, I can’t wait til we play you lot and get 6 points
saif - September 28th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
yo cunts city lost to utd thats how shit they are chelsea cann’t buy eny one in summer coz if you read it then it says summer and why do you lot think nando wants to leave remember in summer clubs tryed to sign him what did he say he wants to stay at anfield and that he would stay at liverpool for as long as some one wants him there so shove that in your pipe hole and smoke it
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Fernando who?????????????????
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Bin dippers get back in your squat, who said that City bid for him, your belieing the Sun again……… forgot you don’t read it MY ARSE
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
it probably was city who asked the price and i’ve no doubt that he will be joining city next season if we manage to carry on with the improvement we have already made and qualify for the champions league.
as for the scouse who tried to jokingly compare torres with bellamy(yes that is how you spell his name),then to be honest i wouldn’t swap bellamy for any forward in the world at the moment he is absolutely on fire!…..hmmm come to think of it , how could torres get into the city team ? no way would i put him in front of adebayor so you can keep torres, he only scores in short bursts against minor teams and doesn’t work hard enough!…………………………………………………………….ming the merciless.
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
he wont go, he is determined to win silverware at liverpool
Retryboy - September 28th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Some club probably city asked the price we told em wasn’t for sale… Big deal
saif - September 28th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
never gunna go get over it and buy your own quality world class stricker now fuck off son of a bitches
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
70m u will only get ngog
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
YOU WOULDNT SWAP BELLAMY FOR TORRES???
DUDE YOU MUST BE ON ANOTHER PLANET!!
And as for whoever the bid came from, i agree it would of more likely been Man City than anyone else in the premier league, all last season the papers were saying that city would try and make a bid for him. But remember this city fans, what’s it like knowing that every player you’ve bought this season only has Money on the brain, not one of them will ever have the same passion to play for city, in the same way that torres and gerard have for liverpool! You cant buy the best team in the world, no matter how much money you have, its all down to the manager’s ways, and if the players can gell together on, and off the pitch!!
And that will be proven when West Ham f**k you up tonight, at your own ground!!
Mark My words.
MIKEY B
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
the clubs that asked about torres were, chelski, man city , man untd and real madrid,
read it on sky sports news a few weeks back
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
chelsea tried with a 60million bid too, that was on sky news lik 3weeks ago
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
he would never go to madrid tho bcoz he is athletico throu and throu
be like gerrard going to everton
Donavan Ried - September 28th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Man city?, Torres?, £70m? …. Maybe £170m, then again maybe not …….
Where is AC/Jed these days?? ….
RyanO - September 28th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Torres ain’t leaving any time soon. He’s destined to be the biggest star in our history! 50 faster than Rush, Dalglish and Fowler. Fucking amazing player who will only get better! Na na na na na na na na na na…
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Jeds back behind bars again I heard, they caught him kiddy fiddling again, not quite the same without him really is it.
Retryboy - September 28th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
They’ve been very quiet for some reason can’t think why lol oh yeah getting stuffed by lowly wigan that was it!
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
not even 70m x 70m
anonymous - September 28th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
What’s that Mikey B? I thought West Ham was supposed to @£#% us up tonight?
When will you guys give up and realize that City are for real!
City is not even after the league title this year. Its a top 4 place we want and we’re on 15 points with a game in hand with the leaders on 18 points.
anonymous - September 29th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Least city should expect is top four money you spent got good chance too notice you weren’t that confident to put your post up b4 the game? Don’t think city are the real deal just yet tho
anonymous - September 29th, 2009 at 8:22 am
torres=king. simply amezing player. he is like an arrow!
anonymous - September 29th, 2009 at 11:57 am
calm down scousers we dont want torres hes a big girl who will be at Madrid in 2 years after you keep failing.wake up were on the move up and with the arab doss coming in you might challenge us in 5 years
Retryboy - September 29th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Seen your qualities when you played united. city are a joke hughes is so scared of losing the dressing room he will never be able to manage your team of ego-maniacs fact is bellamy, tevez and Robinho left their bigger clubs to get regular first team football adebayor is no 1 so hughes has to keep all the rest and santa cruz happy and what has hughes achieved in management avoided relegation with blackburn add to that toure, adebayor, bellamy, Robinho, tevez have all fallen out with team mates b4 you think that in 5 years we might challenge you? Lmao you haven’t even got a team to challenge band of mercenaries whilst our players love the club bellamy loves the club… Golf club that is
RaNE - September 29th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
fernando torres is priceless
money cant buy him and even if we went down a league he’d come down with us that is why he’s priceless other players leave for money he goes for the challenge and he can get more of a challenge at liverpool
anonymous - September 29th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
No player is priceless and unless we start winning things asap then there is a good chance he will look elsewhere (one day) I will really consider placing a bet that he will be the first £100 million player, he is the best in the world right now imo and of course Man U & C, Chelsea and Real Madrid would wet themselves to get him in there team. I hope we win big this season, get the new buyer in, start the stadium which we have seen with Arsenal helps with the profit margins and buy a few more top drawer players.
Good luck tonight
YNWA
anonymous - September 29th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Torres would NEVER leave for Barca/Real. Today’s modern footballer hates more money, better climate, more protection, hotter chicks etc…in Spain. Wait…where was Torres born? New stadium is the answer—no new debt since everyone has a spare 600m lying around…LOL….YANKS MUST GO!!!
anonymous - September 30th, 2009 at 9:04 am
anon 11:57am you tit what makes you say we will only be able to challenge you in 5 years? you’ve had money for less than a year and already look a better than you was, yet we’re already a consistent top four side and one of the most feared clubs in football yet you you don’t think if we got the same cash injection we could manage the same sort of progression that a mid table team with a shite manager has managed to acheive.
if we get the arabs in lfc and city could offer the exact same money for a player and same contract and who do you think the player would go to? us everytime you muppet the only players who want to play for you are people who wasn’t offered enough by their clubs to stay and you offered more than everyone elsethat was intresred. your club is full of mercenaries and if a big club offered them the same money they would take it.
and even if we don’t get the arabs in we’ll still finish above you
anonymous - October 2nd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
right whoever the fuck put this is a complete joke! How would torres get into city! fcking hell infront of adebayor tevez and bellamy thats how, and scores in short bursts !? against small teams!? What about the goals against man u real madrid chelsea last season!? they small teams are they? wait till liverpool play man city and u see how torres rips your new deffence up…
anonymous – September 28th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
it probably was city who asked the price and i’ve no doubt that he will be joining city next season if we manage to carry on with the improvement we have already made and qualify for the champions league.
as for the scouse who tried to jokingly compare torres with bellamy(yes that is how you spell his name),then to be honest i wouldn’t swap bellamy for any forward in the world at the moment he is absolutely on fire!…..hmmm come to think of it , how could torres get into the city team ? no way would i put him in front of adebayor so you can keep torres, he only scores in short bursts against minor teams and doesn’t work hard enough!…………………………………………………………….ming the merciless.