Sacked Chelsea boss Roberto di Matteo is convinced the club doesn't have the players to bring out the best in Fernando Torres. The Daily Mail says Torres' failure to find his best form cost Di Matteo his job at Chelsea.

The Italian knew there were problems using Torres when the players Abramovich had brought in did not suit the Spaniard's style of play.

Di Matteo had run the analysis on Torres, asking the club's technical team for a breakdown of the 81 goals he scored for Liverpool before his move south to London.

When Di Matteo went through the detail, a worrying pattern emerged that convinced him Chelsea did not have the personnel to accommodate his game.

At Anfield, 56 of his goals (69 per cent) were engineered by defence-splitting passes, usually from Steven Gerrard or Xabi Alonso. At Chelsea, players like Juan Mata, Frank Lampard, Ramires and John Mikel Obi - together with new arrivals Oscar and Eden Hazard - preferred to pass their way through the opposition. They did not spring opposition defences and Di Matteo was already beginning to doubt whether Torres was committed to the Chelsea project.