Fernando Torres: One of the all-time greats?

[emilioestevez]

Champions League
Europa League
2 Euros
World Cup

Balon d'Or top three, multiple golden boots, record-breaking transfer.

 

[z31fanatic]

Don't make us laugh. He had no hand in winning those trophies and has a very poor record for Spain.
He was great for Liverpool but that's it.

 

[Silencio]

He was pretty fearsome at his peak, but it was an awfully short peak due to all the injuries.

Great player? Yes. All-time great? Nah. I can name a dozen strikers who were better.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Is there a 'no' vote option that one can click on in that poll? Or, put another way, are there any possible answers - or buttons that can be clicked - other than those marked 'yes', or, Trump?

Hm. This sounds like some of the peculiar elections I have observed in the sort of strange countries where you can only vote for the incumbent.

 

[Don't panic]

a decent player, but not even one of the greats of his own generation..... let alone all-time

 

[impulse462]

when OPs avatar is the best way to describe this thread

 

[Lord Blackadder]

Could have been?

For a relatively brief window he was perhaps the best striker in the world, but his career was blighted by injuries. He had the talent, but for various reasons he wash't able to bring it to bear long enough consistently enough to be one of the all-time greats.

 

[z31fanatic]

He was never the best striker in the world, even at his prime.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

No.

A pity that option isn't available in the online poll.

 

[Ulenspiegel]

I am not a football fanatic, just a casual follower. Nevertheless El Niño is one of my favorite players.

 

[Apple fanboy]

All time greats? He's not a patch on Geoff Hurst The worlds only World Cup final hat trick scorer.
Nuff said!

 

[Lord Blackadder]

Geoff Hurst The worlds only World Cup final hat trick scorer.
Nuff said!

Don't forget Carli Lloyd. Geoff Hurst never scored from the halfway line in a WC final.

 

[JamesMike]

Don't forget Carli Lloyd. Geoff Hurst never scored from the halfway line in a WC final.

That was a great goal!

 

[Lord Blackadder]

That was a great goal!

Not to mention it capped a hat trick!! If it had happened in the mens' game people would have been putting it in "greatest goals of all time" lists. Nobody else has scored a goal like that in a WC final, and I doubt it will happen again for a very long time if ever.