Former Liverpool midfielder Don Hutchison has blasted the club's star striker Fernando Torres and urged under-pressure manager Roy Hodgson to sign a top-class centre-forward.
Torres has been way below his high standards this season and his form is one of the reason's Liverpool are languishing in the bottom half of the table in what has been a disastrous season so far.
He has scored just six Premier League goals in 18 appearances, and Hutchison cites Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson's handling of Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov as an example Hodgson must follow.
Hutchison said in an interview with talkSPORT: “Fernando Torres - his performance levels and his work-rate this season have been so, so bad.
“If I was in Roy’s shoes I would go out in the January transfer window and try and buy a top-class centre-forward or someone that can start every single Saturday.
“At the minute if Sir Alex Ferguson was managing Torres he would not be in the side.
"He’s done it with Berbatov and he’s done it with Rooney.
"Unfortunately for Roy he has to play him because he’s a world-class player but his performances have been very, very average.
"Liverpool need competition in them places where Roy could then maybe say to Fernando 'you're not doing it, my job's on the line here, I'm going to have to sign strikers that are going to score me goals'."
Torres had another poor showing in the 3-1 defeat against Blackburn on Wednesday night, which has led to Hodgson coming under further pressure from the club's new owners.
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