15 in prem..overall.. 22. big match player. really excited, seems really down to earth and knows the task at hand.
Want to be positive so, 15 in the league + 10 in the cups would be nice more like 15 total + 10 assists would be a good first season.
Thought we were signing him to be a 20+ goal in PL and 30 goals in all competitions a season striker ? Everyones predictions are quite low then,no ? Have always felt the strikers we have had could get 20 goals a season in the PL but the way Benitez plays prevents this. So will guess at 15 in the PL if Benitez plays as defensively as last season but 20+ in the PL if he takes the shackles off.
About right if he got between that. We'll see come the first game against Villa if he starts up front with Kuyt to see how he adapts. I said earlier a goal in the Villa game would do him a world of good.
Only one player broke 20 last season (after having a not so great debut season), Owen never did it and both those players probably started nearly every league game. I think its a tall order to ask that of Torres in his debut season. Rafa today already hinted that strikers would have to fight for their place and that he would still rotate so he won't start every single match and deffo won't play the whole 90 mins. 15 would be a nice total if we had three strikers getting in and around the same remembering his assist rate is decent considering the team mates he had around him in Spain. As commented by a few he might also bring out the best in Kuyt who ironically could be the one to end up our top goalscorer and even hit that magic number because of Torres. If our strike force hits anywhere within an arse's roar of 50 goals then who cares who gets them. I won't be taking Paddy Powers 10/1 on Torres being Prem top goalscorer anyway and I love a good gamble on Pool (last season I had us for CL winner 1k if won, Crouch CL golden boot 3k if won, Prem 1st 10k and 2nd 3k). You might as well take the 33/1 double for us to win the league and Torres to be top goalscorer because I can't see us not winning if he was though could see the reverse happening (alright Chelski didn't win when Drogba was top goalscorer and same with Arsenal and Henry but thats my point about having one big goalscorer not being the be all and end all......if we did add that to two double figure strikers we're league champions with our defence, end of)
I think he will break 20, say 21 in league, and 8-9 more in other competitions. I rate the lad highly I do
30 in his first season !!! If he does that we'll be winning some shape of a double. From reading the pro and con articles on him whatever about the opinions of his strike rate nobody disagrees that his general play is very impressive to watch. His pace, power and ball control running directly at defences. I'm quite excited about actually being more entertained about the play on the pitch regardless of just results. I wonder is there a big of Digger in him. I would love to see a bit of that again about us.
I would reckon in region of 12/15 in the league, anything less would be disappointing. If Kuty got around the same, Crouchie with 10... and a few from midfield it would be a good return. The days of people getting 30 league goals are gone. Rotation being the main reason. When hopefully the big champs leagues games come around, El nino will find himself on the bench for league games weekend before
All I can say is what would God be worth circa 96/97...oh dear, 30+ 3/4 seasons on the bounce...may the force be with you my Toxteth Terror, El Nino indeed. Fill that shirt kiddo and you are the man.
Can see El Nino chipping in with around 12-15 league goals and about 8-10 in other competitions. I would say he will turn provider alot because of the type of player he is. Could see Kuyt hitting 15+ league goals, as I would hope to see him in and around the box much more rather than coming deep like last season, I would rather see Torres doing this. If Crouchie got 10 League goals, and Stevie G around the same that would be a very satisfactory return imo.
I worry about where the extra goals to win the league are going to come from then. We scored 57 league goals last year V Man U 83. So if we take the following Torres 15 Kuyt 15 Crouch 10 Stevie G 10 New winger 7 Harry/JP 5 Total thus far = 62 Others need to score about 20 or so. Can they do this. Xabi, Mash, Finnan, Carra, Riise. Think we will need alot of OGs to make up the short fall. Now fair enough with our defense we probably don't need to score as many as Man U I hear you cry but they let in exactly as many league goals as us last year, and Chelski let in one less. Now how many do we want Torres to score?