According to wiki: "the most prolific foreign goal scorer ever in a debut season in England". This is a record, but IMO a very irrelevant one. The record he beat was Ruud who scored 23 in 2001/2, and tbh I'd say the same about him as I do about Torres - very good but over-hyped.
nah don't rate Garrido myself and have thought we needed a new Left Back for a while now
Er, were they?
Yeah but with the players they are looking to try and sign in. You need a bit more then strong, for the money they are likely to pay. If your going to spend the money that being talked about you need a side that might push for title. Even with 3-4 big signings, I don't think their squad would be good enough.
They don't seem to have the ridiculous Abramovich money, so maybe they'll just go with a few high profile signings to go with the already solid squad. But you never know.
You're missing the point here. The club's history is irrelevant, considering how highly Torres had been rated even before joining Liverpool.
We're about as strong as Chelsea was when Abramovich came in, if not a touch stronger. If these guys are serious about it and not just in it for a laugh and a giggle for a season or two, it could really be the makings of something huge.
Why?
I reckon so, yeah. Considering the bulk of last year's squad gelled so quickly to bump themselves up the table for a considerable amount of time (especially after how crap they'd been the season before), I'd say they did rather well. Not sure if they'd get CL football but I was impressed with the Vidic/Evra-like signings that Sven made.
Not relative to the rest of the league, you're not. Chelsea came fourth before they became Chelski, you came 10th last year and have been unconvincing so far this year.
Unconvincing we're 3rd ffs what more do you want?
Seriously, do people in the UK ever think someone ISN'T overhyped? (apart from Ronaldo, that is) It seems as soon as a player gets any sort of accolades whatsoever from the media or fans, every other **** in England is saying that he's overhyped.
Can only feel that United fans in general will be extremely miffed if we're going to get outbidded by non-CL sides for our primary targets. If we bring in nobody at all, I'll be very annoyed... we need another striker, particularly with Saha out the window. We can't even rely on cripples now!
They had a strangely good start to the season that no-one expected, and then in the second half - when the signings should have been beginning to gel - they returned to normality. Given the amount of money they spent, they should have been higher than 10th IMO.
Yeah but relativity is a key issue. It's arguable but it's not a closed case.
Carried a newly promoted team, as a nineteen year-old club captain, on his shoulders for four years? A goal every two and a half games for Atletico, who weren't just "not very good", but horrid until they signed Maniche and Costinho, which was in 2006.
But frankly, Ronaldo scored 42 goals last year, which was quite a few more than Torres and was also predominantly from out wide, so I think he did a fair amount more to deserve the hype.
