Ever since being transferred to Chelsea in last January’s window, the one universal opinion on Fernando Torres is that he hasn’t lived up to his previous form. He’s on a drought, a severe one at that, scoring one goal last year and none in league play this year. As of right now John Terry has more goals than Torres and Daniel Sturridge, who was on loan last year gets called back and effortlessly scores against Sunderland last week. Yes, both of those are very cliche stats, but with recent veiled usage of the idea that club manager Andre Villas Boas is leaving him out of both the Champions League opener against Bayer Leverkusen and the Sunday trip to Manchester United it cannot look great for Torres to the outside eye. Villas Boas didn’t outright say that Torres is being left out of the two upcoming games, but realistically why would he still go along with the previous mandate of “we paid £50 million, we have to allow him to find his groove”? How long do we have to wait until we can say that Torres either doesn’t fit on the team or dare I say, lost his prime? Read the rest on CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TALK
