Hi Tes,
What formation would you like us to play? 4-4-2 which proved so disasterous at City or 4-2-3-1? If the former who do you think could play alongside Torres without occupying the space Fernando takes up? It's a difficult one to work out and even harder to find that kind of player in 36 hours!
I still feel we'd be better sticking to 4-2-3-1 with Gerrard just behind Torres and maybe Meireles in there too as he seems quite attack-minded.
I wonder what Roy means when he say's "he's not our sort of player"? The mind boggles. 
ASI, I really don't like this two holding midfielders setup. WBA had a setup (at least according to MOTD2) that I favour - 4-1-4-1. One defensive midfielder, the four ahead being made up of two wide players (not neccessarily wingers) and two behind the striker, one of which can be an attacking midfielder/playmaker with the other being a more traditional in the hole type striker. The front central 3 or indeed 5 rotate and switch positions according to the position taken up by any of them. For example, if the single striker pulls wide to work the channel, he is supported by the full back, whilst the wide player takes up the advanced central position. It also allows for either or both the players behind the striker to break beyond the striker. When the ball is wide left, the wide right player's job is to get in the box, either far post, centrally or ahead of the main striker if he's dropped deeper during build up play, and vice versa with the other wide player.
When defending it easily adapts to a bank of four or even five. With a bank of four, the main striker and hole player defend from the front taking a fullback and centre half each to close down.
We can easily adapt it to play Gerrard and Meireles behind Torres, with Meireles playing slighly deeper than Gerrard, but with the way Gerrard plays, he, Cole (starting on the left) and Kuyt (who showed his ability on the left against WBA) would interchange fluently. Meireles would also be in a position to drop deeper and help Poulsen out or drop in the hole left should Poulsen bring the ball out with him.