The Boot: Adebayor, Torres Or Ronaldo?

cson · 09-03-2008 01:10AM #1

10 Games left.

Ronaldo: 21
Adebayor: 19
Torres: 19

Who's it gonna be? Torres has somewhat propelled himself into the running courtesy of a rather hot streak of late including a hatrick. Kudos to him, it being his first season and playing alongside Dirk Kuyt for most of it. Can't have been easy. Out with the chequebook I say, Monsieur Wenger

Im_No_Superman · 09-03-2008 01:14AM

Emmanuel Adebayor (19)

Ill go with Ronaldo.

Although Torres does seem to be the man of the moment (and rightly so).

StickyMcGinty · 09-03-2008 01:16AM

Torres, simply because when liverpool score its usually him or Gerrards

Arsenal score from all over the pitch, same with united.

Sherifu · 09-03-2008 01:19AM

Torres is on a good run and isn't being rotated. If it stays that way i'd say him.

mayordenis · 09-03-2008 01:23AM

ronaldo, isn't enough games left for torres to overtake him, even though nobody else at liverpool is capable of scoring utd and arsenal have goals coming from everywhere, scholes, anderson, saha, rosicky, hleb, both utd and arsenals defences all banging in goals, wheras benayoun, crouch, kuyt, gerrard, babel have no goals . . . . .

OPENROAD · 09-03-2008 01:24AM

Fernando Torres (19)

Adebayor for me.

Dave! · 09-03-2008 01:24AM

I'd be inclined to go with Torres to be honest..... hoping it's L. Ron Aldo though

Peyton Manning · 09-03-2008 01:25AM

Emmanuel Adebayor (19)

Ronaldo, because he has scored consistently over the whole season, the others just go through purple patches.

MrJoeSoap · 09-03-2008 01:26AM

OPENROAD wrote: »

Adebayor for me.

No surprises there.

I'm going to actually say Torres.

cson · 09-03-2008 01:28AM

Emmanuel Adebayor (19)

Courtesy of Patrick Power Turf Accountants Dot Com;

C. Ronaldo: 8/11
F. Torres: 9/4
E. Adebayor: 11/4

Wouldn't mind having a bit of Torres at that price. Not as tasty as it would have been a couple of weeks ago mind, but tasty all the same.

MrJoeSoap · 09-03-2008 01:31AM

Archimedes wrote: »

Ronaldo, because he has scored consistently over the whole season, the others just go through purple patches.

Ronaldo didn't score in his first four games this season, other than that his longest streak without a goal is two.

Torres hasn't gone more than two starts this season without scoring. The only thing about him is Benitez tended to use him (and others, obviously) sparingly at times earlier in the season. He's playing regularly now and scoring regularly.

Adebayor went five without a goal in Sept-November.

yayamark · 09-03-2008 01:31AM

Fernando Torres (19)

E. Adebayor for me think hes class

zAbbo · 09-03-2008 01:34AM

Reckon it will be Ronaldo myself

MrJoeSoap · 09-03-2008 01:34AM

yayamark wrote: »

E. Adebayor for me think hes class

And Torres and Ronaldo aren't?

Of the three in the running Adebayor is the least-proven goalscorer, taking their past records into account.

MrJoeSoap · 09-03-2008 01:35AM

Tusky wrote: »

I'd say Ronaldo will win it unfortunately.

If Torres hits 24 league goals it will be the most successful debut season for a foreign striker ever. He scored 7 goals in the first 8 days of March...incredible!

If only he was that prolific all season, he'd have about 200+ goals.

PHB · 09-03-2008 01:35AM

Emmanuel Adebayor (19)

Can't see Torres win it to be honest. I think he's propelled himself up to it by some absolutely unreal performances, but I can't imagine he's gona sustain that level.
Liverpools run in is pretty tough, probably the toughest of those 3.

Reading H
United A
Everton H
Arsenal A
Blackburn H
Fulham H
Brum A
City H

That said, I think Adebayour could still do it.

MrJoeSoap · 09-03-2008 01:38AM

Was just going to reply PHB, but the edit did the work for me!

OPENROAD · 09-03-2008 01:38AM

Fernando Torres (19)

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Of the three in the running Adebayor is the least-proven goalscorer, taking their past records into account.

but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7l5klm00oU

MrJoeSoap · 09-03-2008 01:40AM

OPENROAD wrote: »

but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7l5klm00oU

Good point well made.

OPENROAD · 09-03-2008 01:41AM

Fernando Torres (19)

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Good point well made.

Dave! · 09-03-2008 01:41AM

can't argue with that tbh....

Tusky · 09-03-2008 01:43AM

Emmanuel Adebayor (19)

I'd say Ronaldo will win it unfortunately.

If Torres hits 24 league goals it will be the most successful debut season for a foreign striker ever. He scored 7 goals in the first 8 days of March...incredible!

Archimedes wrote: »

Ronaldo, because he has scored consistently over the whole season, the others just go through purple patches.

Not true, Torres has scored pretty consistently throughout. See below. * = didnt start.

-0
-0*
-1
-0
-2
-0*
-0
-0*
-3
-0
-0
-1
-0
-1*
-0
-1
-0
-2
-1
-0
-1
-0
-2
-1
-0
-1
-1
-0
-0
-0
-1
-0
-3
-0
-3
-1

36 games, 25 goals.

Cant believe I bothered to type that out.

Guy:Incognito · 09-03-2008 01:46AM

mayordenis wrote: »

ronaldo, isn't enough games left for torres to overtake him, even though nobody else at liverpool is capable of scoring utd and arsenal have goals coming from everywhere, scholes, anderson, saha, rosicky, hleb, both utd and arsenals defences all banging in goals, wheras benayoun, crouch, kuyt, gerrard, babel have no goals . . . . .

Not sure where this " all of Utds players are scoring " thing is coming from. They've pretty much had 3 strikers playing all season. (Ronaldo has 21, Tevez 11 and Rooney 8) . Of there free scrong defence, Ferdinand has 2 goals and Vidic 1. Brown and Evra have none between them. Nani has 2, Giggs 2 and Scholes 1. It's really not that different from Liverpools scorers. (Hyypia 1, Aurelio 1, Gerrard 10, Torres 19, Babel 4, Benayoun 4, Kuyt 3, Alonso 2).

All in all Liverpool have had 11 different scorers to Utd's 12.

pd101 · 09-03-2008 01:47AM

I'll go for a tie between Torres and Ronaldo.

MrJoeSoap · 09-03-2008 01:49AM

Tusky wrote: »

36 games, 25 goals.

Cant believe I bothered to type that out.

Actually, whilst we're on the subject of stats, its pretty incredible that none of the three have more than four assists. Selfers ftw!

Guess they are just pure goalscorers, whilst the likes of Berbatov has 10 goals and 10 assists, and Kenwyne Jones assists nearly twice as much as he scores (5 goals, 9 assists).

StickyMcGinty · 09-03-2008 01:53AM

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Actually, whilst we're on the subject of stats, its pretty incredible that none of the three have more than four assists. Selfers ftw!

Guess they are just pure goalscorers, whilst the likes of Berbatov has 10 goals and 10 assists, and Kenwyne Jones assists nearly twice as much as he scores (5 goals, 9 assists).

jaysus, 10 between the 3 of them! good work joe i'm well surprised at that stat!

looks worst for ronaldo though being a winger... but the 21 goals make up for that i'm sure

Tusky · 09-03-2008 01:58AM

Emmanuel Adebayor (19)

StickyMcGinty wrote: »

jaysus, 10 between the 3 of them! good work joe i'm well surprised at that stat!

looks worst for ronaldo though being a winger... but the 21 goals make up for that i'm sure

Gerrard has 18 goals 15 assists in all comps. Torres has 3 assists I think.

Dubit10 · 09-03-2008 01:59AM

In all honesty i couldnt care less if torres scores more than ronaldo or whoever.We at last have a player who excites the crowd in a way i have'nt seen since king kenny.In a time of great distress for the club he has lifted the fans spirits and i stood on the Kop today and sensed the arrival of a true legend at our club to be mentioned in the same breath as kenny,hughes,fowler and kennedy.:) And that is a great feeling indeed.

pd101 · 09-03-2008 02:02AM

Torres only has 18 league goals.link

MrJoeSoap · 09-03-2008 02:04AM

StickyMcGinty wrote: »

jaysus, 10 between the 3 of them! good work joe i'm well surprised at that stat!

looks worst for ronaldo though being a winger... but the 21 goals make up for that i'm sure

While I'm at it.

Of Ronaldos 21 goals, 14 have been at home. Not particularly noteworthy, I'd imagine its fairly in keeping with most players.

Of Ronaldos 7 away goals, 6 have been against sides in 9th or lower. Little bit more interesting. 5 of the goals were against sides in the bottom 8. A goal or two against Derby seems a great bet.

MrJoeSoap · 09-03-2008 02:04AM

pd101 wrote: »

Torres only has 18 league goals.link

Dude, he scored today.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/top_scorers/default.stm

Tusky wrote: »

Gerrard has 18 goals 15 assists in all comps. Torres has 3 assists I think.

10 and 9 in the league too. Good going.

Fabregas has 7 and 13.

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