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Not necessarily 'mismanagement' in the sense of somebody being at fault. Just pieces not fitting into a particular puzzle that a club has at a given time. Our team developed in a way that didn't suit Fernando all that well. A real shame, don't forget the guy publicly announced he was coming here...

He did begin the season as a starter, though. As I recall he was pushed out because of Morata's remarkable performances in Europe especially. I remember we all really liked Llorente but Morata was unbenchable in that form.

Crazy to think that in those days guys like Llorente and Caceres weren't good enough to be undisputed starters

Ok so the shortlist is currently Llorente Matri Borriello Marchisio Del Piero Buffon Who else?

Our most handsome player ever? @Lion

Good luck to this handsome, handsome man.

He complains way more than he should given his scoring record this year. - - - Updated - - - :agree: Proved it till the last moment too, agreeing to move on a free transfer.

This :tup: At least Fernando didn't complain all the time about his Low minutes.

Bilbao said the same thing. - - - Updated - - - @Lioness

Noted.

@Lion how many goals will Llorente score against us?

Good luck to this guy, I hope he finds his form in Sevilla and gets a spot in the Spanish national team. Nothing but good wishes for Llorente's future, and thinking that it's a shame it didn't work out better for him at Juventus.

Not to mention that if we're playing a wing-based formation now we'd maybe have been better keeping Llorente and I'd now see signing Zaza (with hindsight of course) as a blunder.

Come on @Hustini we got him for free because he was out of contract. Not getting any money from the sale of Llorente is a terrible piece of business. The situation with Tevez was different and we at least managed to negotiate a few young players out of it, but we've just given away a player who...

Aw noooo I don't want our Fernando anywhere near English football. Yuck.

Is there any news? For him as well as us it would be better to get this sewn up. He'd be better off doing a pre season with his new teammates.

That seemed to be what Conte really wanted, and so Llorente would have been his perfect centre forward. Obviously we never got wingers though and Conte found other ways to play to Llorente's strangths.

I'd have liked to think that with the wide variety of opinions we have on this forum that none of us would be so silly as to judge a player's ability on his performance in one season in one team. Llorente is clearly capable of being a very useful player with several useful (albeit very specific)...

I´d like him to stay and score 20 goals next year. Actually while I´m at it I´d like him to stay, score 50 goals and win us the Champions League...

You're right. Fucking Zaza, I really hope I get proved wrong because I'm not happy about his transfer.