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Liverpol boss Rafa Benetiz last night told the media that if superstar Spaniard Fernando Torres was not injured as much as he has been this season, then Liverpool would not have slipped so far behind Premiership leaders Manchester United:

The worst thing has been the injuries to Torres. Maybe if Torres had not been injured so much things would be different.

He has been our main striker and scored a lot of goals for us last season. And this season could have been totally different with him.

With the former Valencia manager pointing out this very obvious fact, is he admitted that he has made mistakes this season, mainly in the shape of not getting the best out of Robbie Keane and his teams inability to convert chances? [Read the rest of this entry »]

Jens Lehmann doesn’t know when to stop talking, so perhaps we should take his comments with a pinch of salt. In a way, it’s refreshing to hear a footballer shoot from the hip, when so many players say relatively nothing when being interviewed. The former Arsenal keeper’s latest gem concerns Liverpool striker Fernando Torres, who had the audacity to nick the ball past Lehmann to win Euro 2008 for Spain, something a certain Barcelona striker used to do all the time at Highbury and the Emirates.

The Daily Mail reports that the shot-stopper is not content with laying into Sunday night’s referee for being so biased as to let lucky Spain beat their superior opponents (!), he’s also quick to belittle the Reds striker, whom he claims has got a long way to go before he can reach Thierry Henry’s level.

But when asked about Torres’s quality, Lehmann said: “Well, he scored and that’s what you have to do as a striker but you’re asking someone who played together for years with Thierry Henry and he was a God, performance-wise, when he was in England.

“So when you take him and compare him to other strikers, there’s a difference and Torres is definitely still not at Thierry’s level.”

While the Frenchman was one of the greatest players to ever grace the Premier League, surely Torres is virtually on a par with Henry right now? Pace-wise, there is little to seperate them, while it’s hard to imagine that Thierry would have done any better than the Liverpool striker during his first season at Anfield. Is Lehmann talking codswallop or is he on to something here?

Obviously, Liverpool can’t win an international tournament, but [Read the rest of this entry »]

We’re now all aware of just how greedy Emmanuel Adebayor is, although surely that doesn’t extend leaving Arsenal to join [Read the rest of this entry »]

Despite only scoring one goal for Spain during Euro 2008, one of his club team-mates certainly thinks Fernando Torres is better than any other striker on the planet. [Read the rest of this entry »]

While the speculation over Peter Crouch’s future rumbles on, there’s another striker on the books at Anfield who will need to pull his socks up next season if he’s to remain at the club. [Read the rest of this entry »]

With rumours of an imminent move to Portsmouth/Aston Villa on the cards for Peter Crouch, COS looks at the career of Liverpool’s lankiest striker and asks, is Rafa an idiot to let such a prolific goalscorer leave?
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It appears that the hunter is about to become the hunted. Chelsea might be throwing their weight around in the transfer market, making cheeky enquiries about the likes of Franck Ribery and Fernando Torres, only to be amazingly rebuffed by the clubs in question. However, [Read the rest of this entry »]

According to the Kop, Fernando Torres ‘gets the ball and scores again’, although the Liverpool striker has been overshadowed at Euro 2008 [Read the rest of this entry »]

With Liverpool players expected back in training on July 7, manager Rafa Benitez will continue to put things in place for the coming season.

This week, a number of deals could well be sorted.
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With Euro 2008 acting as a stick in the spokes of the summer rumour mill, all Liverpool fans have to feed off is ‘The Continuing Story of Gareth Barry’. Will he? Won’t he? Oh for heaven’s sake guys, just sort it out and let the papers move on to something more Interesting.
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If money was no object, then the tabloids would have you believe that £300m could be invested in new arrivals at Anfield. However, this target could apparently only need a little persuading to become a feared strike partner for El Nino!
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It looks like money doesn’t always get you what you want; a host of European clubs have raised their drawbridges in anticipation of a Chelsea raid. [Read the rest of this entry »]

Fernando Torres might be one of the hottest properties in Europe, yet that hasn’t stopped his national team coach from having a pop at El Nino after a display of petulance on Tuesday evening. The Liverpool striker had set his country well on their way to a 4-1 victory over Russia, before being substituted by Luis Aragones. However, the Daily Mail report that the striker spat his dummy unceremoniously at the decision, refusing to shake the hand of his gaffer, incurring his wrath as a result.

The coach said: ‘You can’t let these things happen. I understand the player gets angry and I am with Torres, but putting it right afterwards is important.

‘A player must first be angry with himself. The atmosphere in the squad is extraordinary and we’ve instilled into them from the first moment that those who don’t play are as important as those who do.’.

Torres is not accustomed to being substituted in the 54th minute for Liverpool and he was probably frustrated at not having scored for Spain in the opener. However, it’s not exactly the way to curry favour with your manager, who is clearly very much his own person when it comes to decision-making. Let’s see if the forward gets the nod against Sweden on Saturday.