Chelsea-owned striker Fernando Torres played a key role in Liverpool's swoop for former QPR prospect Raheem Sterling. The Reds were pursuing the QPR youngster, who was causing a stir at Rangers' Centre of Excellence, and Rafael Benitez invited him to Liverpool's Melwood training complex.
It was during this meeting when Torres - at the height of his Liverpool career - bumped into Sterling and his accompanying mother and had a 'quick chat' with the pair.
"We invited Raheem to Melwood and had a meeting with him and his mother," Benitez told the London Evening Standard.
"I walked around the complex with them and was showing them the facilities and we got as far as the physio's room.
"Fernando was there - and I think Steven Gerrard, too. But definitely Fernando. I explained what Raheem and his mum were doing and I told Fernando what we thought of the young player we had brought in. He had a quick chat with him, asking how he was getting on. He was interested in him." Benitez added: "Raheem was really pleased - and you could see his mum was, too - really - impressed that the club's biggest players had made a fuss of him."
Torres is currently on-loan with AC Milan.
