Moving on and moving forward?
Moving on and moving forward?
By Afroza Begum, writing from Singapore
If you had tried telling any Liverpool fan when Kenny Dalglish stepped into the picture as Liverpool’s new manager that a bomb much bigger than the plight that Roy Hodgson had left the club that finished 2nd in the league and was facing the worst luck in football history, they would have told you it couldn’t possibly get any worse. But the morning Liverpool fans heard the signing of Luiz Suarez, a talent that had been scouted for months – to not only add boost of confidence in the team, but also to add the needed support of another striker, they had to deal with yet a bigger disappointment. Their pride of prides, the one fans all over claimed as the “Scouser lad who was born in Spain” – Fernando Torres handed in his transfer request to the club.
The act certainly threw everyone off guard; fans were voicing their anger, their frustrations; their sheer emotions of shock – not at why he wants to leave, but why does he want to leave now. Everyone was aware that Torres had not been pleased with the form of the club and it had shown in much of his body language in recent games. The too many broken promises under the previous owners might have been a little too late to fix. But that still did not explain the decision to request for transfer just 3 days before the windows closed. The supporters, having had to deal with the toughest first half of the season, fighting for their club back, seeing the most disappointing season through did not expect this big a blow, not from a man they thought of their own.
(Source: philosofooty)
