Fernando Torres left out of Spain squad

Chelsea striker Fernando Torres has been left out of Spain's squad for their friendly international against Venezuela in Malaga on Wednesday.
Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque stressed there could still be changes to the squad before this summer's European Championship in Ukraine and Poland.
But said he wanted to reward players who had been performing well.
Del Bosque said: "He is a lad we appreciate a lot and it pains me to leave him out but I wanted to be fair."
The Spain boss had said in December that Torres needed to turn his season around to ensure selection for Euro 2012.
The 27-year-old has scored just four goals in 29 Chelsea appearances this season.

Feel so sorry for him.

Iker Muniain is 19 and got his first call up.

Meh, don't feel bad about Torres.Why should he have been selected? Been playing shit, just because he used to be good does not warrant an automatic call up

Kuled wrote:Feel so sorry for him.

This.

I thought he was doing well recently?

So you feel sorry for somebody that did not get selected because he did not deserve to?

Steadman wrote:I thought he was doing well recently?

lmao

He isn't doing that badly, it's just that Llorente and Soldado have been playing very well.

Kuled wrote:Feel so sorry for him.

Why?

He plays at a bigger club, so he can win trophies. You should be happy for him.

kyro7 wrote:

Steadman wrote:I thought he was doing well recently?

lmao

Apart from not scoring he's been playing pretty well.

It's a friendly, so what if he wasn't selected?

David Villa, Pedro, Busquets & Albiol never got selected either...

Is this really all that surprising? I mean from what I can tell his decline in form since coming to Chelsea is the worst of any top quality striker in the history of football. Heck, Shevchenko scored more!

Should have stayed at Liverpool.

His career has certainly improved since moving to big club Chelsea.

Bet he feels like a real twat right now.

He'll be back in Spain next year

Scott. wrote:Should have stayed at Liverpool.

Considering your owners follow Moneyball and Soccernomics I am quite certain that he was sold because it was beneficial financially, and not because he desperately wanted to leave.

About time really, others are playing better.

He desperately wanted to leave. He put in a transfer request.

Obviously we bit their hands off at 50 million....haha.....but he wanted to go there because they were always making CL without a problem until this year.

I'm sure he also got a nice raise.

Mustangt125 wrote:He desperately wanted to leave. He put in a transfer request.

Obviously we bit their hands off at 50 million....haha.....but he wanted to go there because they were always making CL without a problem until this year.

I'm sure he also got a nice raise.

PR wise a transfer request would justify the decision to sell him far better than just coming in and selling the "golden goose" just because the "money was right". I wouldn't be surprised if the transfer request was in fact constructed by the owners. However, I don't doubt that when Torres was offered a chance to play for the team challenging for honours he jumped at it.

good

he was always being picked on his name the last year and a half which is just wrong

I still don't understand how he got the playing time he did in the WC. He was worse than Rooney in South Africa.

He's Garbage

Andrés wrote:It's a friendly, so what if he wasn't selected?

David Villa, Pedro, Busquets & Albiol never got selected either...

Villa's got a broken leg so I'd fucking hope so

Ruthless and absolutely fair, now Muniaín and the likes of Negredo/Soldado/Llorente will get their chance for a starting spot for the EUROs, since Villa might not play then.

Cant really have any complaints.

This is all coming together nicely.

Gegilworld93 wrote:Ruthless and absolutely fair, now Muniaín and the likes of Negredo/Soldado/Llorente will get their chance for a starting spot for the EUROs, since Villa might not play then.

Villa will be back APril/May

Mustangt125 wrote:He desperately wanted to leave. He put in a transfer request.

Obviously we bit their hands off at 50 million....haha.....but he wanted to go there because they were always making CL without a problem until this year.

I'm sure he also got a nice raise.

Don't know why people give him shit for wanting to leave for Chelsea. They have performed better than Liverpool over the years and he has more of a chance of winning something with them than with Liverpool. If he got a pay raise, that makes it even better.

Would you turn down a job that is willing to pay you more and you have a better chance of success with them?

I wish England would take notes from this and drop players who are in shit form rather than solely picking their squad on name value.

drivescore wrote:

Gegilworld93 wrote:Ruthless and absolutely fair, now Muniaín and the likes of Negredo/Soldado/Llorente will get their chance for a starting spot for the EUROs, since Villa might not play then.

Villa will be back APril/May

Yeah looks like he'll just make it but he'll hardly have played any matches by then, I wouldn't want a starting striker in my team at an EURO who just came back from injury and was in poor form and not starting for Barca even before he got injured. I think Llorente will be starting then, with Villa as a super-sub at most.