Fernando Torres admits his spiritual is Liverpool - not Madrid.

Within days of his arrival from Atletico Madrid the Torres song was echoing around Anfield's Kop, the stand that had once rung to the praise of Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalglish and Robbie Fowler.

"It is incredible," he told the Telegraph of the chant. "I can understand why the fans would sing [his colleague] Stevie Gerrard's name, because he is from here. But now a player comes from another country and gets this? It's amazing to get this. Each player has one place in the world where he is happy and as a result he plays well. My place is Anfield. Every game I can play there I feel good."

Torres's journey to Merseyside is one he never expected to make.

"As a kid I never once dreamt of playing for Liverpool," he says. "I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not."