Fernando Torres – Chelsea
When a club pays £50 million for your services, you’d better make sure that you’re up to delivering the goods.
Many expected Torres’ move to Chelsea in 2011 to be the making of him, and taking the step up to being hailed as one of the best strikers the game has ever seen.
He had it all, the pace, vision, strength, movement and finishing ability, but he looks like a shell of the player that lit up Merseyside for four years.
Sadly, it’s become quite clear that he’s not going to recapture that form in West London. He’s now played over 120 games for Chelsea and his goals to games ration is still nowhere near what it should be. It’s worth pointing out that he is enjoying his most prolific season in West London, scoring 20 goals. However, only seven of those have come in the Premier League. Not even Rafa Benitez can get the best out of him anymore and with the senior Spaniard set to leave at the end of the season, the junior 29-year-old could be following.
It has been suggested for a while that a return to Spain could see him retain a shred of the credibility that his career had been built on up until his move, and with Radamel Falcao reportedly heading to the Blues in the summer then a move back in the other direction may not be out of the question.