Torres on his relationship with Mourinho:

 

 

'The press will always try to make stories but the truth is Jose and I have a very good relationship. We shared a relationship of honesty and trust. I have nothing but respect for him and I am sure that he feels the same.

'There is no truth about him forcing me out of Chelsea. I wanted to play regularly and he was honest with me and told me he couldn't promise me that. If he is ever in Madrid I would buy him dinner, we are friends.'

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2892601/Fernando-Torres-respect-Jose-Mourinho-Madrid-buy-dinner.html

Good on him! That's classy! 

Atletico Madrid unveiled striker Fernando Torres to 45,000 fans at Vicente Calderon Stadium on Sunday.

Torres, 30, is returning to his boyhood club seven-and-a-half-years after leaving to join Liverpool.

His loan from AC Milan, which runs until the end of the season, does not become official until Monday but he watched Saturday's win over Levante.

"I was missing something to motivate me, something that I could only find here," said Torres.

I guess he is gonna start banging them in now, since he's motivated now.... Haha, conman

Edited January 4, 201511 yr by Zola

He needs to "feel" special to perform..apparently.

I hope he finds form with Atletico.

I thought his loan was for next season as well.

He needs to "feel" special to perform..apparently.

I think Mourinho once said that about Drogba, seemed to work!

This is his last chance now as if he can't perform here he's done for mine!

 

I'm amazed by how fond the Atletico fans are of him after so many years but I hope he does well for them. 

Edited January 6, 201511 yr by Jezz

I'm guessing an Athletico forum may have just had a new redandwhitehatter account sign up.

Have to confess I'm intrigued by the return to Atletico. Will be watching tomorrow night. Just realised too that Fernando made more league appearances for us than he did for Liverpool.

Edited January 6, 201511 yr by carrickblue

I don't really give a toss now he's finally gone.

I'm glad it all ended happily.

Glad it's all over, don't understand why we didn't deal with Atletico directly but going the long route via Milan. Wouldn't be surprised if we play against them in the CL this year.

I kind of miss the useless bar steward

Have to confess I'm intrigued by the return to Atletico. Will be watching tomorrow night. Just realised too that Fernando made more league appearances for us than he did for Liverpool.

Yes very true. He seemed to have more injuries at Liverpool than he did with us ironically even though his injuries at Liverpool have curtailed his career somewhat. His appearances and stats with both clubs:

 

Liverpool (2007-2011) - 142 Appearances, 81 Goals

Chelsea (2011-2014) - 172 Appearances, 45 Goals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1nzB9PBQlA

All he needed was love ;)

Double against Madrid.

49 seconds into the first half, 36 seconds into the second half.

BOOM! Happy for the lad

Just proves how sh*t the Spanish league is

Just proves how sh*t the Spanish league is

 

Yep, always has been an easy league for strikers to score in.

In general I'd agree but this wasn't some sh*t team in the league this was the European Champs, fair play to the lad!

Double against Real Madrid is no easy feat regardless of the quality of the rest of the league. His first goal was taken very well on his left foot too which was pretty surprising as I remember him regularly trying to Rabona cross just to avoid using his left foot.

Just proves how sh*t the Spanish league is

Not really. Costa and sanchez are scoring for fun in their first season in PL, but in general the spanish teams don't use negative tactics unlike many teams here in England so more open games and opportunities to score. I think madrid ahould have started with varane tbh, that ramos and pepe partnership is not very good. Credit to Atletico though, they pretty much neutralised the whole madrid team from open play.

Edited January 15, 201511 yr by enigma

If I'm not mistaken that was Reals first team XI, fair play v he took them well, didn't celebrate like I thought he would though!!!