Fernando Torres is the manifestation of all that is fickle in football.
After taking an amazing 900 minutes to open his account for Chelsea, Torres was expected to kick on, but we are still waiting for it to happen. He enjoyed the best spell of his career at Liverpool, with 81 goals in 142 games, and he says Gerrard took his decision to leave particularly hard....
One day, Steven Gerrard came to say to me: Fernando, now, you have to think of yourself. Do what you have to do
But when I went to tell him that I was going to accept the Chelsea offer, it destroyed him. Announcing my departure from Liverpool to Gerrard was one of the most difficult moments of my career.
He was my best team-mate and I am not sure of finding another like him in the future. We were made for each other.
At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. There, I felt like a king but the team was falling apart," he said.
It seems that his departure from Liverpool was brought about by the clubs selling of important players.
The directors had sold [Javier] Mascherano to Barca, then Xabi Alonso to Real Madrid without investing any of the money to compensate for the departure of these two key players.
I was 27, I wanted to know what it was like to lift the Champions League and I had the feeling it was not going to happen with the Reds.
Liverpool then was in full transition, the club was being sold and in that case, unless you are Manchester City or PSG, it can be a long road before you are again competitive.
Torres' fall from grace will go down as one of the unexplained mysteries in football. Many believe that a move away would be best for the stuttering striker, however, it seems he is content to stay and prove himself under Mourinho.
