Fernando Torres left Liverpool for Chelsea with no regrets and no trace of guilt. The £50 million man felt he needed to make the move, irrespective of the stick he is bracing himself for from the travelling fans when he makes his debut for Chelsea against his former club at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
The Mirror says sources close to the player confirmed it was a relief for him to follow his heart and make the change now, rather than trying to convince himself, in vain, that his broken love affair with Liverpool could be continued.
Torres was said to have suffered over the past five days as the scale of his move became clearer, breaking what had been an almost physical bond with the Anfield fans who idolised him and viewed him as one of their own.
But the 26-year-old forward had reconciled himself to the backlash and the grief, telling himself that those Liverpool fans who were complaining of feeling wounded and let down by his act of "desertion" would get over it in a matter of days, while if he had stayed it would have meant another six months of hiding a personal misery.
