Fernando Torres Reportedly Headed to Manchester United

By: Bob | October 3rd, 2006

It has been a busy couple of days for the man nicknamed after a weather pattern. Fernando Torres – El Nino – will join Manchester United next summer if the reports are true that his current club Athletico Madrid have accepted Man U’s down payment on the Spanish international striker.

At the mere age of 22, Torres is a hot commodity following his four goal performance for Spain at the World Cup. He also has been at the center of a firestorm in Spain this week following his team’s 1-1 draw against Real Madrid. Torres came under fire from Real Madrid coach Fabio Capello after taking a fall that led to Real’s Sergio Ramos being sent off.

Capello labeled Torres a “cheater”, but has since backed away from those comments. Cheater or not, Torres is a talent and should pair nicely with Wayne Rooney to give Manchester United one of the best and most tattooed young forward combinations around. He’ll also team up with Cristiano Ronaldo to give United a powerful one-two combination in the much coveted category of Google football player seaches by girls ages 13-17.

Below are some clips of Torres, the first shows his marginally cheating ways against Real Madrid and the second shows him scoring over and over and over again with the mandated YouTube soundtrack accompanying his many heroic feats.

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I love Torres i think he has made english football another joy 2 watch.. he is great on the bal and a fantastic stricker. liverpool are lucky to have him .. if they dont get into champions leauge spot this season i think he will leave and go to chelsea ( i wish ) lol .. but still.. very talanted player.. good luck to the boy.. i 14 and support chelsea.. xx
Elisha

ha ha ha ha ha. you're all gutted because he has come to the best side in europe, liverpool
abbie

im a sunderland a.f.c fan and would obviously love him to come to sunderland and help roy keane out but he aint so man u would b my 2nd choice luff yaz xx
clivew

torres on his way to chelsea in the summer
kamaal

i'm one of the man utd suporters i like to get man utd forward striker fernado tores .
blackwhiteandgrey

Interestingly, Fer Torres was the player who gave away the most balls during the last Spanish season in the league (300+, I believe).

The price that's being bandied around is far too much. Torres is useful for scoring against 1) minnows and 2) Barcelona. So not useful unless you're Real Madrid, who, ironically, he hates.
Will

This would further cement my hatred of Man U. Torres is a punk. Talented, but a punk.