Real Madrid midfielder Xabi Alonso has urged Fernando Torres to quit Liverpool and return to Spain.

Alonso left Merseyside for Real Madrid in a £30million move this summer after telling Rafa Benitez that he wanted to join the Bernabeu revolution.

And now he hopes that former Atletico Madrid star Torres joins him in by returning across the Bay of Biscay.

"La Liga deserves players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Lionel Messi," Alonso told Sport magazine. "Now we are only missing my good friend Fernando Torres.

"I hope to see him back in Spain one day, but I don't think he will come to Real Madrid. I think he has too big a heart for Atletico for that, sadly."