Fernando Torres Keeps Hodgson Sweating a Bit Longer
Liverpool’s new manager Roy Hodgson yesterday announced that Fernando Torres, his star striker, has not yet committed to doing a fourth season with the club. Hodgson said that:
“Christian Purslow, the club's managing director, has been talking to Fernando Torres for the last two days so there have been lots of words. But I haven't spoken to him, no. Javier Mascherano is on holiday and isn't due back until the fifth of August so that's when I'll be speaking to him.
I was confident Steven Gerrard would stay with Liverpool because he is the heart and soul of the club. It would have been a major blow to lose him. Steven Gerrard has pretty much said he's staying and that's a big boost.
It was a major day yesterday with the signing of Joe Cole in tandem with Gerrard saying he is staying. Hopefully he will soon be followed by Fernando Torres.
On Monday most if not all of our players who were at the World Cup will return to training and we can start getting down to some serious work.”
Yesterday a much patched up Liverpool held FC Grasshopper to a 0 – 0 draw leaving Hodgson in a good mood. They were playing without 13 of their senior players and they also did not use their new player Cole.
Hodgson said, “We played a young side and they did very well.”
