Top five flops of the 2010-2011 English Premier League season (Part 1)
A lot of names have been thrown around in the best players of the season categories but seldom has anyone tried to define the flops of the English Premier League 2010-2011 season. There were a lot of players who failed to live
up to their standards and some new arrivals as well who disappointed in all honesty after what was expected of them. Thus let’s take a look at the top five flops of the 2010-2011 season...
Fernando Torres
A 50 million pound transfer fee buys you a striker who can’t score even if his life depended on it. Everyone has heard of the Italian job but this was a Spanish http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 through and through. Chelsea got mugged apparently on the streets
of Liverpool as the Merseyside giants decided to part ways with their injury prone striker. Torres’ arrival at Stamford Bridge was supposed to hail in a revolution which was supposed to help Chelsea take over Manchester United never really came around.
Unlike the Arab revolution which has plagued the Middle East, the non-visible, non-tangible http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fernando-Torres-c13707 revolution was only seen in a solitary moment of London rain when the Spanish striker scored his only goal of the campaign
for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 via some help from Mother Nature (read a puddle of rain with the ball sticking in it).
It will be interesting to see how the next season plans out for Torres who has already stated that people should forget the last season (yes, he would like us to do that!) as it was his worst one in professional football. It is
times like these that make one wonder why Torres didn’t stick to goalkeeping which he used to do when he was a little boy trying to polish his footie http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Skills-c40539.
Joe Cole
Nice fat salary package? Check. A good home? Check. Smooth on the eyes wife? Check. Taking the football world by storm? Err... Joe Cole’s first season in English football with Liverpool in the 2010-2011 calendar year was explicitly
mind numbing to say the least. It gave a new definition to the phrase “watching the paint dry on the wall”.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 on a free transfer after Chelsea (this time they were the clever ones) bid farewell to England’s talent(less) forward due to his fitness issues. One can only wonder as to why Liverpool banked on
the former West Ham United player but it goes to show how folly football clubs can be when dealing in the transfer market with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Bare-c7300 minimum budgets. Joe Cole ended up getting sent off on his debut to start things off and this amazing behavioural display by
the sprightly winger was compounded by the fact that he only started nine Premier League games for Liverpool and scored two goals.
It seems as if Joe Cole will have to look for a new home now considering Kenny Dalglish has managed to instil some sort of rationality at Anfield. Queens-Park http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rangers-c40314 might sign up the former Chelsea man but they have enough money
to burn so why not? It will be a wonderful experience for Cole once again as he will sit on the operating table and watch Sky TV.
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