“I chose the place I thought would get me closer to what I didn’t have. The reason I left home…. Titles!”

​@@edmondm22they are football players. Not a club player so they have their own expectations to achieve. The same reason RVP left Arsenal for Man U, but a part of Arsenal fans understand by looking at the club's willingness to spend. We should just remember the good memories they've played for the club

@@ahmadsyakirin7987 True bro, and I am one who supported his move to Chelsea. I only quoted him in the statement he made, and t made sense as he got an massive trophy which Chelsea had Keats longed for.

Love Torres still to this day even now still hurts he left him and gerreard got me into Liverpool

I think ur right..The next big player that left us was Suarez which at first hurt my heart but I respect it as he had actually carried us to near PL title. Torres did break my heart for a long time as he went to Chelsea IMO. One of our ex legend went to MU n hes no longer part of the LFC family in my books (im talking about u M.Owen)

@@triplecchillout6523 Torres broke my heart but Suarez topped it and it also angered me because he almost carried is to a title but he also played a part in us missing out on it aswell people talk about the Gerrard slip but if he didn't have that ban at the start of the season I am convinced we would have won the league. Sterling didn't bother me at all but he's definitely the one I hate out of them all.

I preferred Suarez over Torres

I have to disagree suarez was wow at Liverpool the power speed his intelligence reading the game omg

As a player Suarez was levels above Torres. Suarez is a great player who is still a bit underrated. Torres is a very good player who is slightly overrated.

Speak for yourself bud

I was there. Nostalgia at it’s finest.😢

@@KV-zg3oh Torres is still loved by the fans, he played on Saturday in the LFC Legends match, the first time he's pulled on a Liverpool home shirt since he left in 2011. And he got the biggest standing ovation when he scored. While most of us were hurt when he went to Chelsea, most of us are also mature enough to understand why he left. I'll give you 3 words to explain Fernando Torres exit in 2011: Gillet and Hicks. They sacked Rafa, a manager who won us the Champions League and replaced him with Roy Hodgson, the worst Liverpool manager since the inception of the Premier League. With Liverpool going backwards instead of forwards it was only a matter of time until Torres patience ran out - he came to Liverpool on the promise of winning trophies, and we didn't deliver.

@@acurisur he didn’t deliver either. Sick of the idea that a player comes to a club for the club to deliver trophies. It was his job to deliver the trophies. He didn’t just leave, he went to Chelsea.

@@KV-zg3oh Mate, Chelsea isn't a direct rival like you think they are. Man Utd and Everton are. Torres did deliver, other players didn't, we conceded too many goals as well. It's not just about scoring goals, you need a rock solid defence. When we did finally win a PL title, it was because we had a world class goalkeeper in Alisson and a world class centre back in Van Dijk. Torres had neither of those in his Liverpool team, he had Gerrard and Alonso, neither of whom are particularly defensive. And Torres was literally told that the club would deliver trophies, that was how we lured him away from Athletico Madrid. Know what I'm sick of? Liverpool supporters who know sod all about things but then bitch about our ex players.

Well why did he leave then? Pure snake who sold his soul.

@@George-wv5hf The team was in decline and nothing was being done about it. Plus Torres was already exiting his prime and it would have been his only chance to go to a title contender.

@JabbyMayoCD it certainly wouldn't have been his last chance at a title, any other club in the world would have signed him at that point. He chose one of Liverpools bitter rivals in Chelsea, snake for life. I hope he doesn't coach about loyalty in his current role.

@@George-wv5hf read the full interview if you have any questions, he explains everything. Whether you agree with what he says is another thing, but at least give it a chance

@Killua Zoldyck there's no explanation needed, he's trying to mend the bridges burnt with the Liverpool fan base. It rivals Sol Campbells move from Spurs to Arsenal.

He didn't

@@nyikasplace9886 he did😁

@@Docu-Mentary no

@@nyikasplace9886 lol I give up🤣🤣

@@nyikasplace9886 he's in a category with Benzema, Suarez, Ibrahimovic, Messi and Ronaldo. How many modern forwards in the last 30 years have clocked up that many goals?

OK, so the first line is utter nonsense; he was never even close to the level of Ronaldo or Messi. The second part, that defenders feared him more than Henry, Drogba & Rooney, I'm willing to bet is not based on facts. So, where is your source that has every defender or even most of them, stating that they feared Torres the most? I'll give you 24 hours to either provide this or admit you made it up!

@@dawnmancaloriankeebals4262 He was 3rd in ballon d'or 2008 behind Messi and Ronaldo dude. He was clinical finisher and insanely fast in his prime. I would say that defenders might really be affraid of him the most at the time.

@Mr.Robot Third doesn't mean you're on their level now, does it? It wasn't a question of whether or not defenders feared him; I'm sure they did but feared him more than Henry? I doubt it. Torres was never even at Henry's level. As for "dude," your observational skills suggest you're hardly the person to rely on here.

@@dawnmancaloriankeebals4262 let's ask vidic

@Stephen Docherty Let's first look at the stats. 3 goals in 7 games against Manchester United for Liverpool that's hardly anything to boast about, though better than the one goal in 8 for Chelsea and Vidic didn't play. So 3 goals in 14 games. Now, let's look at Vidic. Red cards, 4 of his 8 red cards came against Liverpool, but none of them were challenges made on Torres. Unfortunately for you, the Torres destroying Vidic every game is just a myth. But, as you said, let's ask Vidic. "Torres was a top player," he said. "At the time, he was probably the best striker in the league. He scored a few goals against United. "In the Premier League, I had some good games against [Didier] Drogba, sometimes bad. "I played well against Torres one week, then one game bad, that's the Premier League. You're not going to be on top of your game every week. "It's why I like the Premier League. In one game, you're going to be against a strong player like Drogba, the next it'll be a Torres or [Sergio] Aguero. "If people see me live, they say, 'I thought you were much bigger!' I was never big, but I gave everything in challenges. "It's why I never got bigger because I knew the next week I'd have Torres or Aguero, so I never spent as much time in the gym as you have to adapt to players." In another interview he stated "People say: 'You had a difficult game against Torres', but it was just the one game," Vidić said. "I misjudged the distance and Torres scored.” Interestingly, no mention of fear or of Torres being the one he feared the most. In fact, when asked about the four toughest strikers he faced in the Premier League, he named Didier Drogba, Sergio Agüero, Luis Suárez and Peter fricken Crouch!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

That was 2013 when Gerrard slipped 😂

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Liverpool already broke back then and glad transaction went quickly, we re lucky not to become Leeds or Blackburn

He was my idol as a kid when he started with Atleti. He brought the club back from nothing. With game and later with leaving money when he go to Liverpool. It was sad but now you realize his sale made posible the beginning blocks of what slow build toward the Simeone era. So happy he returned but very sad he fell so close to the Champions with Atleti in 2016.

Couldn’t hit a barn door after he left us and was lost without gerrard traitor

If that time villa and torres in liverpool Gerrard alonso mascherano Wow how many cup would they have??🙇🙇

@@petermarsden4444 Liverpool betrayed him with empty promises. And he ain't english so hows that a betrayal? Moron Torres is bigger than Liverpool anyways

@@gipgop4740 😂😂😂 your funny no body is bigger than Liverpool if they don’t want to play for us we get rid simple as that hope he got rid of that tattoo YNWA my arse 😂👍

He's the reason I don't get attached to players anymore. If Salah leaves tomorrow I wouldn't be sad more than one day.

@@mralireza931 I wholehearted know what you're talking about. Exactly same reason why I don't get attached to players any more. (Salah staying or not crossed my mind a couple of times while watching this video.) But there is one big difference: The current club hierarchy values and respects Mo (as a footballer and person) much more than what the then hierarchy did with Torres. So hoping for the best.

His goals against United???? He scored like 2 goals against United.

And so did i when Phil left us.

Are you still gay or did you straighten out?

We got Suarez with his money, and you can say what you will about Suarez but he was just as deadly as Torres but Suarez played in a much inferior Liverpool team and still got tons of goals and that's saying something..

@@marioalm1330 sorry

@@Dragonaut111 Suarez was literally a cheat code in fifa with max stats in finishing vollleys dribbles etc he was so fkin good for Liverpool better than people say or give him credit for he was incredible to watch and so deadly near goal never seen anyone like him really

I remember being a kid and throwing my Torres shirts around my bedroom in a tantrum lmao

I shed tears when the news came man...i was out of the world thinking that gerrard-torres partner would definitely bag us the title

Big win today

@@uhasuhdude6567 I remember being an adult and doing the same thing...I mean-grow up!

we all knew... I think Beniters was the manager at the time (and the new ownership)... they were swapping out players quicker than he could change their panties

By who? Not by any Liverpool fans. He did well and he left.

@@alberthagan8909 loads of the true football fans love him . He was finished it was great business by Liverpool as injuries had caught up with he’d lost edge . Have you ever seen a world class player go from his time at Liverpool which wa# outstanding to absolutely shite at Chelsea . He was finished

Because he was an utter failure everywhere else

Only because he was pretty much a bust at Chelsea...

@@alberthagan8909 Yes, he's still loved by many Liverpool fans - doesn't mean if u dont like the guy that every other liverpool fan automatically does !

True bro

He got injured in that Euro championship representing Spain. Since then he wasn't the same player coming back to Liverpool. So i dont think its about the price tag at all. He got crocked pretty bad. Some of the fans were asking him to be sold while there's still value

Ever since Maguire went to united for 70 mil , the standard for bad deals has been set way above Torres at chelsea

@@ice_ffxiv3012 now its kepa for 70 mil which is just as hilarious. man u and chelsea are the best for wasting money

It was pretty bad. The problem is it's almost impossible to work out whether it's a bad because of a general loss of ability, or because of how Chelsea played at that time (and since, few strikers have done consistently well for them to trouble the top of the goal rankings, and many other top level strikers had similarly poor output or troubled careers at the club) - but it was clear by the time he went to AC Milan he was a spent player, at only 31, and his career back at Athletico he was a shadow of his former self.

That is what HE claims. I don't buy it. He left because Roy Hodgson took Liverpool on a downwards spiral in the first half of the 2010/11 season before Kenny came in and halted the dive. This 'toxic leadership' did not make Torres want to leave in 2009 and 2010 when Liverpool were challenging for trophies, and ironically would have likely won them if Torres himself wasn't such a sick note.

@@lyndoncmp5751 The toxic leadership from the former owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks had an enormous negative effect on the club during that time. I still remember my mum going out to protest with all the other true Liverpool fans, actual scouser who cared about the football not the status.

Tony They came in 2007. Torres didn't want to leave when Liverpool were challenging for trophies. He wanted to leave when Hodgson took Liverpool nose diving towards the bottom of the table. There was not a mass exodus due to the owners. That is complete revisionism.

@@lyndoncmp5751 totally agree.. this seems like nonsense... Man said he went and told then he wants to leave.. and next day "they betrayed him and let the news out". Sure they did. But that's doesn't make it so HE didn't betray LFC by going and asking to leave. Still a traitor.

Kane read your comment and offhe went to Germany

If Mo ever did that.... Idk what I'd do

Torres leaving for Chelsea and Suarez leaving for Barca are the most painful transfers for me. Suarez left us after being at the very top of the world and look how suffering it was for us back in 2014/15 season where we're finally got to play in the UCL again. Torres left for a domestic rival and in such very difficult time. Glad I didn't feel so devastated when Coutinho left because we got VVD, a player that we really need at that time

@@nridhm IMO, Suarez was sad, but it didn't feel like a back-stabbing the way Torres did. Suarez had wanted to leave the year before, he left for the biggest and best club in the world (at the time) to play as the wingman to the best player ever, his wife's family lived in Spain, etc. It was an understandable transfer to an understandable and inoffensive destination. It just hurt because he was so amazing for us.

You can’t compare it to if Salah was to go to City coz it’s understandable why he lest. The hierarchy at the club was a mess and they tried to put our club into the ground to benefit their back pockets. Torres was different gravy and should of been competing for the elite trophies but the lack of investment and ambition at Liverpool made him leave. Especially because he didn’t feel loved with the leadership when they come in.

Same case with RVP leaving Arsenal.

Mine 2😁

Same......the reason I became Liverpool fan

Easy, shoot your brother. And then shoot your other brother. Liverpool had to see Daglish retire, then Fowler, then Owen injured never recovered, then Torres who left. You don’t go to the directors as if you are some sort of a big shot, Liverpool isn’t built to be a one man show. It is a family after Everton packed their bags and left, and became a legendary club, as a family. Liverpool has a core value, it is why we don’t buy stars after stars and create a dream team. Look at Barca, look at Aston Villa, Leeds United, Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, and so many others like AC Milan actually dropped under relegation zone despite had the strongest team in the world once. Who we have now, Origi, Mane, Firmino, Jota, Salah, Keita, Henderson, Fabinho, Chamberlain, Milner, TAA, Robertson, Tsimikas, VVD, Matip and so on and so forth, you don’t see any pre known stars playing in the top teams. Same as before, so when I hear Liverpool making a move on mbappe I’m like, rumours, that’s all it is.

@@ajstyles5704 true bro their system for transfer is too good

Hello newbies

So Thierry Henry played as a Center back ????

@@JaymzZeppelin No chance Suarez during that period he was relatively unknown at Ajax. Drogba maybe

@@bigboymatthew7471 he was at Barca then and not exactly flying. Henry best striker ever in the Prem though

@@JaymzZeppelin in the Dutch league! theres no chance anyone was calling Suarez the best striker in the world from 2007-09.

@@JaymzZeppelin Torres finished 3rd in ballon'dor in 2008.

Bruh another one just like me. Can you tell me what match it was when you felt in love with LFC thanks to him. Mine was against Marseille. The black kit!

@@njtherealone1961 he was my idol since his atleti days , hes handsome great striker and a captain at a very young age , i always hoped that i am fernando torres lol , and liverpool was my favourite team since that 2005 magic so yeah his moves to lfc was one of the best day in my life 👊🏼👊🏼

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His time at Chelsea wasn’t that good he’s only remembered for his goal in the UCL semis against Barcelona which is still important tho

I disagree about the club not being on his level. I would argue Liverpool had a better squad in 2007-2010 than 2004-2007 when they reached 2 champions league finals and won the fa cup 2006. Its just that Man U , Chelsea and to a lesser extent Arsenal back then had MONSTER squads and coaches, so he couldn't win anything domestically. Benitez leaving for Inter also counted i'm sure. Also Liverpool sold Xabi Alonso, Arbeloa to Madrid in the summer of 2009...so his whole Spanish entourage left...leaving him , i'm assuming, rather alone and isolated in the dressing room.And ofc when you sell some of your best players , instead of bringing superstars, that shows you the intentions of the owners.He saw that those American owners didnt want to invest big money to build a trophy winning side and he went there for trophies.

The certainly were. If we had decent owners, had replaced Kenny as interim by a proper progressive manager and added Suarez to that team we were ready to challenge and win trophies, of that I'm sure. No disrespect to Kenny, he's LFC's greatest, but the game at that point had passed him by as a manager.

and as a Liverpool fan you actually got a 10m pound player you paid us 50 for. that 50m you paid for him, that started the Liverpool rebirth. Suarez came in with that money and thats when shit started to happen at Liverpool. The best sale along with Little Phil Liverpool did. Both of those made the club a powerhouse.

@@minisam1988 yeah but Chelsea won their first ever Champions League and Torres played a crucial role in winning that.

@@minisam1988 That 50 m didn’t start shit. Liverpool bought Andy fuckin Carroll for that money not Suarez. Even if you count that money for Suarez transfer, he also did the same thing and left Liverpool for Barcelona without winning anything like Torres.

You dont even know the reasons he left....greed

@@minisam1988 lol. That 50m didn't do much. You brought Suarez in but couldn't win the epl. If anything, the rebirth started after Gerrard left.

So true bro that y I'm posting this videos to show people y he left. The main reason behind all of it

exactly after finishing 2nd in 2008/09 they regressed to 7th the following season sacked Benitez brought in Roy Hodgson for crying out loud and finished 6th in 2010/11 and Torres left mid season.

Alonso and mascherano left too, but abroad , going to rivals Chelsea is what left the sour taste. That's why the fans disliked him after.

I wouldn’t say Liverpool were irrelevant for the 2010s… they might’ve not been as successful but they were still competitive, Suarez and countino could’ve gone to arsenal but choose to stay at Liverpool for a reason…

Indeed. But Torres didn’t have to leave for that ‘club’ Chelsea, however.

Those are key factors usually forgotten. I think he had the heart to leave Spain rather than go to Real or Barca. That shows his truest loyalty was Atleti at the end of the day.

@@martinthemillwright thats why this fuckin trash never learn english at all

The reasons he left was because Liverpool were crap under Hodgson and nose dived for half a season. The ownership excuse did not force him out in 2009 and 2010 when Liverpool were going for trophies. If he wasn't such a sick note, Liverpool would have won the Premier League in 2009 and UEFA Cup in 2010.

Indeed. Too injury prone 2009 and 2010.

Fans and owners are selfish and use players when they are best for us but we resent it when players put their career first when they only have a decade or so prime to play

He gave up his knee to win a WC. I don't blame him, but after that it was obvious he was no longer the same.

He made a mug out of Vidic once, it never happened again.

He won the the league, domestic and European glory and that was what he wanted. He wanted to be a winner and was looking for higher things and Liverpool couldn't provide that.

With torres u wud never got suarez

@@hiseverest9074 It's a fair assessment pal: you've got him and you've got domestic and European glory. Had he stayed with us together with Suarez the rest is history.

@@bia8367 What makes you so sure to say that? We've got Suarez for 20 mil and we've got Caroll for 35 mil. Perhaps, you mean Caroll.

@@albusha5150 i meant when u had torres your team wudnt go after suarez. They wud be quite happy with torres alone. Once he was sold, u needed a new forward.

Would be great man

It’s always the same with most fast players, end up straining their hamstrings having to adapt their fast paced game to a more slower one due to the fact they don’t want to aggrivate their leg muscles anymore, same with Michael Owen & Sturridge, quite sad really

I'm afraid you're right. For two seasons he was incredible. He seemed to get found out after that. He's a Liverpool legend in my book, but compared to Mohmmed Salah.... nah.

They made him one of their own. They usually do with their greats

And this is exactly why it was such a bitter and painful blow for Liverpool fans when he left for Chelsea. Liverpool fans truly took him in and LOVED him like their own. He was their golden boy basically. Now years later, that wound has healed for most fans but...it's hard to not remember the end to his time at Liverpool while reminiscing about the good memories.

@@melv5816 The way he went was designed to hurt a place where he was happy, his words left a bitter taste too and on top of that came a high price tag. Combined, the pressure ruined his form and I believe his psyche was more fragile than he thought. From being the ''main man'' he turned into a disappointing squad player who occasionally showed his old brilliance.True, he won some medals, but far too often he was merely a bit player. Quite sad when all's considered. We missed him and he ultimately damaged his own career, that is, if a career is not only judged by silverware.

I don't think it came down to desire as he always gave it his all, he just wasn't the same player after that injury

Fernando Torres score total 320 goals : Liverpool : 90 Atletico Madrid : 130 Chelsea : 47 AC Milan : 1 Sagan Tosu : 7 Spain National : 45 This number is incredible, for a striker whose form really dropped at chelsea for 3 years.

@@MrZoD77 wasnt injury either,he was inside his own head too much

Yeah scored goal when they was allready going through worth 50 million 😂

You got Caroll fam.. A far worse signing for Liverpool

Agger who?

Agger do😆😆

The money Liverpool collected from his sales was used to purchase Suarez, 😂

what part of Liverpool are you from

Exactly. That wanker pretends to be shocked but it’s quite easy to understand Torres’ decision. But like you said British media are heavily biased towards Liverpool. That’s why they can’t accept this.

I disagree. It's the same reason why Gerrard ended up staying at Liverpool. He would have been just another player at Chelsea (which happened to Torres) rather than being a legend. He was totally unprofessional before he left. Yes, he had issues with the board but that was not the fans, his team mates or his coaches fault. By leaving in the way he did, he disrespected them all.

@@GavinWoods He was already a legend at his boyhood club Athletico. He didn’t need to be a legend everywhere. He won the trophies he wanted in football partly as a result of leaving. You also have to look at it from his perspective.

@@theatreofdreams7 British media are heavily biased london clubs, get your facts right

This is it. Torres left on my birthday and naturally I was very angry, but as an athlete, you only have so much time. Time was running out for Torres and what he achieved at Chelsea, he would have never achieved that at Liverpool, especially with the transitioning of the club

Legends don't leave when the going gets tough.

He’s not a Liverpool legend

Legend? I don't think that word means what you think it means.

because hes talking to foreign journalists that properly dont speak very good english

It's the first time hearing Stevie G speak like this 🤣....I love it 😂

The documentary makers were Spanish

​@@HT008that's not true

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Liverpool didnt win anything under Torres because he missed a lot of games. If he was a stronger player, less prone to injury Liverpool would likely have won the Premier League in 2009 and UEFA Cup in 2010.

Suarez came after Torres left

Yeah, Liverpool almost went bankrupt at the end of Hicks and Gillett era. Even took a few years for Klopp to build his title winning team. The real 'mistake' or 'miscalculation' Torres made was picking a move to a rival English club like Chelsea. If he went to Barca instead, for example, he'd probably get less hate.

It was the day before torres left. Carroll transfer was dependent on torres but suarez was being signed if torres was leaving or not.