(12-11-2009, 10:20 PM)azerty link Wrote: 37mil is fine to 
Adebayor was priceless though. It's like Torres with us. Even if we got offered 400mil, 300mil of that clearing our debts and 100mil going towards players and stuff...that still wouldn't make up for Torres.
50 years ago Bill Shankly became the team, and set the foundations and caused us to become the team we are today. Torres is now the same. When Torres is around, even when he doesn't get a kick of the ball he changes the whole atmosphere of the game. He too sets the foundations and causes us to go on and have a great run, and without him it's like a bowling ball smashing a pyramid made out of cards.
Arsenal are sort of like that now with Walcott. Like with the derby against Chelsea, when he came on and even though he didn't get that much of the ball he changed the game and made Arsenal look even more like winning.
And England, maybe not so much now with Capello being a great manager, but even now the effects are still there, but more so before he came along. Rooney was that guy for England. When Rooney was on England were a different side, and when he got subbed off there were hardly any goals.