Chelsea forward Fernando Torres gave a recent interview with French magazine “So Foot” the striker said that telling Steven Gerrard he was accepting Chelsea’s offer and leaving Anfield was one of the most difficult moments of his career, he went on to say he has never found a player like Gerrard
In 3 and a half years at Anfield Fernando Torres was seen as one of the best and most electric forwards in the world scoring a sensational 65 times. Since moving to Chelsea Torres has failed to rediscover his magic form he produced at Liverpool.
He explained his main reasons for Liverpool in this recent article “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.
“At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles,” Torres said. “There, I felt like a king but the team was falling apart. The directors had sold 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.
“I did not have the time to wait. 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.”
Torres went on to talk about how it was difficult to fit into Chelsea’s system “Everyone was a bit lost before my arrival, Chelsea played with Anelka and Drogba in attack. I arrived to play alongside Anelka in a system with three midfielders. We played only one match with that system.
Torres later exclaimed he had no regrets about moving to England to play his football “If it took a long time to export players, it was because we were scared. Scared of the unknown,”
Written by Aaron Campbell
