Fernando Torres looks set to return to first club Atletico Madrid
According to Sky Sports Spanish expert Guillem Balague, Spanish striker Fernando Torres is set for a return to home-town club Atletico Madrid.
The former-Chelsea striker is currently on-loan at Italian giants AC Milan, but it now seems that his two-year loan deal could be cut-short and Torres looks set for a return home.
Agreed
Balague told Sky Sports News HQ: “Our understanding is that Chelsea, Atletico Madrid and AC Milan have reached an agreement for Fernando Torres to go back to Atletico Madrid.
“It was all discussed, negotiated and agreed yesterday. It seems it is all confirmed. We have not received details from the club yet but (Atletico manager) Simeone asked for Fernando Torres three weeks ago.
“In fact, he wanted him in the summer but there was a transfer fee to be paid at that time that Atletico Madrid could not afford. The suggestion is that Chelsea have let him go for free but in any case it seems confirmed that Fernando Torres returns home.”
Disappointing
The 31-year-old has endured a difficult time on-loan in Serie A and has found the net just once in ten appearances in the Italian top-flight. To say the last few years of his career have been disappointing would be an understatement.
Hero
Fernando Torres made himself a hero at Liverpool after a move to Merseyside from Madrid. The striker established himself as one of the most dangerous strikers in Europe. His pace and power terrified Premier League defences.
During four years at Liverpool, Torres scored 65 Premier League goals in just 102 appearances, but towards the end of his Liverpool career he looked disinterested and not the player who had looked so dangerous earlier in his career.
Torres joined Chelsea for a British record fee of £50million from Liverpool in 2011. At the time of the transfer Reds fans were in up roar and could not believe that the striker was leaving the club. However, Reds fans were not upset for long though, as Torres looked like a shadow of himself in a Chelsea shirt.
Flop
Torres struggled at Chelsea and scored just 20 Premier League goals in 110 appearances, not exactly the record of one of Europe’s top strikers. Blues fans waited with bated breath for Torres to rediscover his best form, he never did.
He did enjoy some big moments like securing Chelsea’s place in the Champions League final by scoring a late goal to give the Blues a 2-2 draw away at Barcelona in 2012.
Every time Torres looked set to return to form he would encounter a setback and in the summer Blues boss Jose Mourinho decided that he was not in his plans, so allowed him to join AC Milan on a two-year loan deal.
Glittering
Fernando Torres has enjoyed a glittering career and despite him not producing his best football in the past few years he has won the biggest honours that football has to offer. Torres has won the Champions League with Chelsea and with his national squad has won both the World Cup and European Championship.
His list of honours illustrates just how highly-rated he has been in his career. The fact that he was part of one of the most highly-regarded national sides to have ever played the game shows that even when he has struggled for form he was still highly thought of in his home country.
Home
Fernando Torres made his name at Atletico Madrid and was even Atleti’s captain at just 19, the youngest in the history of the club. In six years with the club from the capital he scored 82 goals in 214 league appearances.
Maybe a return to his home-town and first club could bring the best out of Torres once again. The striker did not look like he was enjoying his football at Stamford Bridge or in his latter days at Anfield.
Fernando Torres football career seems to have stalled in the last few years. A switch back to Atletico Madrid could be the ideal chance for Torres to re-ignite his career, because at this point his career seems to going nowhere.
Could Fernando Torres rediscover his form back at Atletico?
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