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if by "improved" you mean "is no longer desperate to show everyone just how super special he is so plays with more freedom, and being the recipient of advice on how every keeper he's gonna face acts when dealing with a striker" then yes, he has improved.
watching him for spain or against spanish teams and you see the real 'nando torres. that one you see in most games for liverpool is an illusion brought on by temporary confidence, slow-witted defenders, and stupid goalkeepers.
villa is ten times the goalscorer, zlatan and drogba are ten times the awe-inspiring force.
and essien would be utter utter failure for barca.
for starters he's not a DM, he's at his best going forward. so playing him in DM is a massive waste. there seems to be this growing notion that any black midfielder who can tackle is automatically a DM. it's not true with keita, and it's not true with essien.
and for seconds, he's a player lacking all manner of subtlety. he's jackson pollock, and we are picasso. he's andy warhol, we are rembrandt. he's banksy, we are gaugin. I mean, you get the point (I'd hope). we already have one un-subtle african, one who is content to not necessarily play every week and is left-footed which offsets the balance of our right-footed midfield. essien's better than keita, no question, but considering we use keita as an option, something essien wouldn't be because of fee and reputation, it doesn't work.
as usual, jordi, YAWRONG.
I voted for villa in the poll but arshavin is fast reminding me why I was desperate for us to sign him last summer. what a player.
I disagree. Are you saying his statistics are an illusion then? If your going to generalize all Premiership defences like that then your placing other good players from the Premiership in the same boat, Henry was amazing in England and really has flopped in Spain, does that mean his statistics are an illusion? Your a Man Utd fan, Torres took Ferdinand and Vidic, arguably the best CB partnership in the world last year, to pieces, this year and last. Along with their "stupid" goalkeeper Van Der Saar. Premiership defences are imo harder to play against than Spanish ones, I'm in favour of La Liga obviously, but physically Premiership defences just have the edge. Lets not forget he also mauled Real Madrid and Inter Milan in a Liverpool shirt. He's not playing in the Championship, he's playing in the second best league in the world and 61 goals in 100 games in that league, doesnt lie.